Labour discussing plans to include trans women on women only shortlists

people like Eddie Izzard Among others are exactly the sort of forward thinking candidates that this country needs to move the Labour Party forward.

This kind of thing is exactly the problem when you have several groups of protest all converging under one general banner (i.e. the liberal left). There are completely incompatible values with no middle ground.

By far and away the biggest problem is not so much the values or wishes of transgender people, but that LGBT+ and feminism have almost nothing to do with one another and are also internally incoherent. LGB is one thing. Trans is another, "+" makes everything a nightmare for everyone, and the concept of Trans and "+" are completely at odds with the values of feminism.

What is the point of fighting for womens rights if any man can simply say that he is a woman?

If you have all-women shortlists that can have men on it.......

Other countires already do this stuff and it doesn't cause any problems.

Just like with the gay laws, poeple of the future will look back on all of this and wonder just exactly all the fuss was about.

Trans and gender fluid people represent the best of the Labour Party, people like Eddie Izzard Among others are exactly the sort of forward thinking candidates that this country needs to move the Labour Party forward.

Other countires already do this stuff and it doesn't cause any problems.

Just like with the gay laws, poeple of the future will look back on all of this and wonder just exactly all the fuss was about.

Here is a novel idea. Why not allow the person who would have the best chance of winning and who would do the best job on the shortlist?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/08/self-certified-trans-women-all-women-shortlists-labour

I personally disagree: it’s the current year, why are they not having trans only shortlists as well?

Trans and gender fluid people represent the best of the Labour Party, people like Eddie Izzard Among others are exactly the sort of forward thinking candidates that this country needs to move the Labour Party forward.

Those two aren’t really mutually exclusive

Here is a novel idea. Why not allow the person who would have the best chance of winning and who would do the best job on the shortlist?

““What if men pretend to be trans to get a seat?” is the last refuge of the desperate. Politics is already a game rigged for incompetent white men – how would such a man benefit from posing as a trans woman?” a great point by Shon Faye

This is completely contrary to the entire ethos of Momentum Labour.

They have said time and time again that their aim is not primarily to win, but to transform the Labour Party philosophically.

They don't want the candidate most likely to win, they want to most political candidate.

Do you have any evidence that a non-white non-man would have made better decisions in the recent past?

““What if men pretend to be trans to get a seat?” is the last refuge of the desperate. Politics is already a game rigged for incompetent white men – how would such a man benefit from posing as a trans woman?” a great point by Shon Faye

Hmmm. That seems like a very strange strategy in a general election. Some of Moementum backed candidates are rather vile (as are before any shouts me down are some conservatives) for example Emma Dent Coad isn’t a lovely person, not sure how she is still an Mp to be honest?

I find it much more likely that people will look back on this short period of time and think of us as utter morons for the social ideas we let take hold.

I find it wholly unlikely that 75 years from now people will think that we were clever or enlightened for having the idea that people could decide their gender arbitrarily and on a continuum of variation - and that this should be somehow normalised rather than being viewed as eccentricity or mental illness.