Labour conference: Not right to say only women have a cervix, says Starmer

The Labour leader told the BBC there needed to be a "mature, respectful debate" around trans rights.

The incident was called transphobic by trans rights supporters - but Labour MP Ms Duffield rejects the claim. But Health Secretary Sajid Javid attacked the Labour leader, saying his remarks were a "total denial of scientific fact".Canterbury MP Ms Duffield has regularly used social media to outline her own position on transgender issues - especially around the debate on the Gender Recognition Act.

But Ms Duffield believes that biological females should have protected spaces where biological males are not allowed to go - such as domestic violence refuges and prisons - and she is against people being able to self-identify as trans to gain access to those spaces.But she has been condemned by some LGBT+ groups, who say trans men and women should be treated the same as biological men and women - for her position, and two of her staff members resigned from her office over her views.

It is completely right to say only women have a cervix. Some for medical reasons don’t. Trans men may have a cervix too, but they are physically women however they want to live their life. If they want to say women & trans men have a smear, fine. Don’t exclude the word women.

So no other news today?

Think he needs a biology lesson.

Mumbo jumbo. Plus, who dictates what's right and not right? The left claim to be diverse and liberal but in the reality they are the ones who are trying to prohibit free speech. They just feel morally superior.

Bigger issues of concern surely

Only females have cervixes

Oh gawd. Now they're coming after women

But is that not a fact?

This says it all🤣

omg. Bio 101

In all honesty, we in the West deserve to be invaded and totally destroyed by our enemies. Our collective total stupidity seems to know no bounds and if we keep following this path of self destruction, we will do it to ourselves, or someone else will do it for us.

Ha ha ha. Guess what? Anyone who has been born with a penis....... doesn't have a cervix.

I don't understand these comments, many if you get so angry about trans rights and identify, how other people live isn't going to hurt you, stop feeling so attacked and insecure. Zealots.

Covid 19, co2, lack of fuel, no turkeys or Christmas trees. Empty shelves, panic buyers. No HGV drivers. Do Labour Party members don a tin foil hat at their meetings?

BBCPolitics Wait a minute. Am I just getting too old for this? A child at birth has a gender (ok, maybe the tiniest minority don't). Female ones have female reproductive organs, which include a cervix. Male ones have male organs = no cervix. Not EVER. Never.1/

I wonder if a donut like Starmer knows his own mother was a woman with cervix, not a trans 'woman' with an imagery cervix.

It is right to say only MALES can posess a prostate... whether that's MALE men or transwoman MALES and so both at risk of PROSTATE cancer, however FEMALE women and transmen FEMALES are not.

What would happen if the copies of works of art a law said that they have the same treatment as the originals? Chaos. It is the same as they are doing with people. A copy should never be considered with the same rights as an original.

BBCPolitics The circus is in town

WTF is going on with this country?

Kind of 21th centery medical miracle?

It's not transphobic to believe in science and reality. Call your self what you want but don't force your opinion on anyone else

It’s the truth. What’s wrong with that

Remember when Labour were a labour party?

I’m a biologist. I’ve no doubt that there are men who 100% feel as though they’re women (and visa-versa). This does not change biological reality. We need to understand this as a mental issue, not a physical one.

I identify as a kettle, have I got a cervix? If not I’ll be deeply offended!

BBCPolitics yes its true unless you don't think of yourself as a woman anymore .

BBCPolitics So who else has one?

This us as bad as the old leader I’ve forgotten his name already!

FFS ! Prove it!

😂😂😂

Reminds me of the 'Life of Brian' scene. LORETTA: Don't you oppress me. REG: I'm not oppressing you, Stan. You haven't got a womb! Where's the foetus going to gestate?! You going to keep it in a box?!

How's he work that one out then.... And he wants to be prime minister...😂

Any chance a rogue asteroid can hurry up and eliminate the human race. It's about time a more intelligent species is given a chance on this planet.

Equally unacceptable to say that humans don't have wings.

Who or what decides gender a birth? Does biology decide or does the delivery doctor decide?

Well done the BBC, is there anything else The Tories have told you to report on? Spineless journalists who should be ashamed.

When the Eunuch (rainbow) class moves to prominence in a society, it signals the end of that empire. That's because rainbow-ism is a pathology.

Typical BBC twisting words for political effect ... Shame on you BBC

And this is why New Labour are irrelevant.

I suspect his comments were in respect of a biologically born woman identifying as a man, as a transgender man he could therefore have a cervix. Taken in any other context the comment is nonsensical.

Only women do have cervix except for the ones who have had there cervix surgically removed due to health reasons, I would be shocked to see a man with a cervix that would be like jesus returning and being born by a virgin street hooker

All utter bollocks

Starmer just lost the votes of the 50% of the population who are women.

transsexuals with penis are biologically men; so they never went to the gynecologist for cervical exams! But obligatorily; proctologists; and 🤞 good luck man 👨

I do wish people would stop making up new meanings for English words and then ramming them down everybody else’s throats and vilifying people who disagree. The King is, indeed, naked.

Only women have a cervix 👍👍

UK media will talk about literally anything apart from Labour's new deal for workers policies...

If I had a lower IQ this would be a better debate

🤣

And they wonder why they can’t win an election, appeal to normal people not tiny woke minorities

Biologically speaking, only women have a cervix.

Only Channel4 is good

Labour are really making themselves unelectable ain’t they? They sure ain’t trying to earn the vote of women of white working class men of the old labour voters who voted Tory due to brexit who they just labelled scum 🤡🥴

But it’s true. Only biological women have cervix. 👀

I have a cervix.

Kind of is tho really, isn't it?

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