Keir Starmer has faced criticism for his remarks about trans people. Many want their party to succeed despite finding themselves increasingly dissatisfied with its position on trans rights. Labour likely to win local elections – but will Starmer change tune on trans rights?Įlections are often a difficult time for trans people, but it’s particularly disorientating for those who are Labour members. “I’m not here to try and keep the Tories in power, but if they want to stay in power they should be dealing with the issues people are talking about, not trying to manufacture ones that people aren’t,” Hasted says. Sewage in rivers, council tax, loss of services, social care, the NHS, teachers feeling like they’re forced to strike.”Īs far as they see it, the Tories are “flailing around” to claw back the support they had a number of years ago – and they’ve decided attacking trans rights is the way to do that. They’re going to be voting based on things like sewage in rivers – that’s the stuff that keeps coming up on doorsteps. They continue: “The vast majority of people are not going to be voting based on a party’s stance on trans rights. You’re talking to maybe two or three per cent of the population on each side.”
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“If somebody is pro trans rights, very few of them are making that the thing they decide how to cast their vote on. Rishi Sunak took a dig at Keir Starmer, saying he “knows what a woman is” (Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing via Getty Images) It’s not going to make a difference – they’re going to lose the next election because this is what they don’t seem to understand: not enough people care about this. “I think they’ll double down and they’ll start trying to push legislation through. “The Lib Dems, the Greens, all the small parties, we can be as pro trans rights as we want, but it takes one of the big two because we don’t have an electoral system that will allow us to take power.”Īs for the Tories, Hasted expects them to “double down” on trans rights – even if they suffer significant losses in the local elections. “Either Starmer or Sunak needs to turn around and say enough is enough, and I don’t think either of them will,” Hasted tells PinkNews. Keir Starmer has been urged to reconsider his position on gender recognition.
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