Mick Hartley

The Labour Party is heading towards the full Stonewall trans agenda on gender self-assignment:

Labour leadership contender Rebecca Long-Bailey has signed up to a pledge to expel party members who have expressed "transphobic" views.

It is part of a 12-point plan by the Labour Campaign for Trans Rights.

The plan has also been backed by deputy leader hopeful Angela Rayner – but critics say it could lead to a "witch hunt" of party members.

It comes amid a highly-charged debate on gender identity including potential reforms to the Gender Recognition Act.

The recently-formed Labour Campaign for Trans Rights says its 12 pledges will help "rid the party of transphobia".

Among the 12 pledges:

1. Accept the material reality that trans people are oppressed and discriminated against in British society, facing a rising risk of hate crime, and difficulty accessing public services, healthcare, housing and employment.
2. Believe that trans liberation must be an objective of the Labour Party, and that transphobia is antithetical to our collective aims.
3. Commit to respecting trans people as their self-declared gender, and to ensure that the Labour Party is an inclusive environment for trans people.
4. Accept that trans women are women, trans men are men, and non-binary people are non-binary.
5. Accept that there is no material conflict between trans rights and women’s rights, and that all trans women are subject to misogyny and patriarchal oppression.
9. Organise and fight against transphobic organisations such as Woman’s Place UK, LGB Alliance and other trans-exclusionist hate groups. Support the expulsion from the Labour Party of those who express bigoted, transphobic views.
10. Support the expulsion from the Labour Party of those who express bigoted, transphobic views.

It's astonishing how successful this whole trans campaign has been. These Labour Party idiots clearly think this is the progressive way to go. It isn't, though. It's misogyny, dressed up in new clothes.

Woman's Place UK, which says it campaigns to defend women's "hard-won rights", said it "absolutely refutes" claims their organisation is transphobic, describing the allegations as "scurrilous" and "defamatory".

Posting on Twitter, the group's co-founders said they were Labour members and called on the party to "defend us or expel us".

The LGB Alliance, who state that "biological sex is observed at birth and not assigned", promised to "keep speaking the truth and remain open to reasonable discussion".

A number of twitter users, who also say they are Labour members, are now using the hashtag #expelme in protest at the pledges, while others have suggested the trans rights pledge could lead to a "witch hunt".

Here for #expelme. Lots of good comments. For instance:

Labour HQ: “Ok we’ve lost the support of the working class, pensioners, northerners, midlanders, the Scots, the Welsh, Brexiters, Remainers, patriots…there can’t be another large group of people left we can piss off.” RLB: “hold my beer.”