Speaker condemns threats to MPs Duffield skips Labour conference in trans rights row

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The Speaker of the House of Commons has expressed support for Labour MP Rosie Duffield, who says she won’t attend her party conference amid a dispute with LGBT+ members over her stance on transgender rights

Sir Lindsay Hoyle spoke out at a meeting of parliamentary heads in Chorley, Lancashire, where the safety of elected politicians was discussed.

 

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The only support she needs is stronger knicker elastic. Another MP having an affair with a married man during the Covid pandemic. She should have resigned. I feel sorry for her children

Stance on Women's Rights Actually.

An appallingly dishonest tweet. The : not to be trusted.

Has she tried not being Transphobic?

Im still curious as to why the T is in even in LGB, T is to do with identity not sexual preference, Hmm

LGBTQI people have to accept they are only a minuscule minority, therefore shouldn't expect the world to change , just for them MAJORITY STILL RULES .

Another minuscule minority group wanting to play the MARTYR CARD ..

She has the luxury of choosing not to attend work commitments as she would have to deal with people who disagree with her views- most trans people don’t….

Dear white women in replies talking about 'it's women's rights'. How do you feel adhering to the patriarchy ? Are you comfortable being objectified again?

Why is this being reported as 'not starmers fault'?

I stand with RosieDuffield1 WomenWontWheesht

politicswatch15 For anyone who's confused about this, here's a summary of the latest issue threatening to rip Labour apart.

RosieDuffield1 isn't in dispute with them about transgender rights, she is asserting women’s legal rights as they stand in law. She has received death threats because THEY want to change the law.

How dare she say that only women have cervix’s, what a bigot

Terrorism and the prohibition of freedom of expression for groups.... Abnormal

I remember when the Independent was a proper newspaper. What happened?

She can't attend due to the hate directed at her for telling the truth. IStandWithRosieDuffield

Sorry, it isn’t a “dispute”. Her safety has been threatened. misogyny

this is so shameful. IStandWithRosieDuffield

This is not about transgender rights it is their demands. Rights that infringe on the rights, safety and well being of others are not rights they are unacceptable abuses exercised by dellusions of entitlennt

Sadly, Rosie is a Transphobe and is hurting Trans people! She is not the victim!

doing more for her than her own party

I’ve been a member of the Labour Party since I was 19. That’s almost ten years. Yesterday I decided I no longer want to be associated with this party. I don’t want to be associated with an organisation that condones transphobia. Labour as a party is dead in this country

Rosie Duffield bullied two lesbians off her staff for standing up for trans rights, but you never see the TERFs talk about that.

Wait, the Labour porty is still going? I would have thought after the gubbing they got in the last General Election they'd have curled up and put themselves under a rock.

My autistic/mentally disabled son can't now go to our local arts centre as the toilets are now unisex. If he goes in there he'll have a meltdown because he'll see women in there as well as men. Things have gone too far; it's time to draw a line.

LGBT+ people shouldn't have to go in fear of violence or intimidation, neither should anyone who has a genuine concern that too many concessions are being made to them.

First they came for the Jews ,then .........

It's over her supportive stance on women's rights that they attack her. I'm sure like every other sane person, her stance on trans rights is that they should have rights enabling a peaceful, happy life free from oppression & not at the expense of anyone else's rights.

Coward

Isn’t she a transphobe? That’s what people are saying on Twitter. RosieDuffield1

It's actually due to rape and death threats but you go on ahead and minimise it as you wouldn't want to upset the lads now would you.

I hope Rosie changes her mind. There will be many in Brighton at that conference and those outside the conference ( me included ) supporting her position. Labour need to 'show up' on this ...this is about women's rights, pure and simple, not about blocking anyone else's rights.

Has she been getting pointers from Luciana Berger?

What a joke the Labour Party has become. Obsessed with minority and fringe issues, at the expense of it looking like anything but a remotely electable party that is fit to govern. It’s finished if it carries on down this path.

Bigot angry at others for being angry at her for being a bigot

Speaker - as is his right - has expressed support, but has very little to say about Johnson lying in the HoC every week...

No support from the labour party.

Come on Labour, there will be a snap GE in months and unless there is unity you will blow any chances of keeping the Tories out. Stop the in fighting and searching for political purity now. Work to GTTO. If not, next time will be too late.

Let's persecute a woman for telling the truth The truth hurts but it's still the truth

Duffield is doing DARVO. Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender. She's trafficking in naked transphobia and then crying crocodile tears when confronted over her bigotry.

Is CommonsSpeaker or Rosie Duffield now saying trans and other LGBT members of UKLabour are extremists and aren't allowed to call out MPs for promotion of transphobic or homophobic attitudes? Would they say that about an MP promoting racism? LGBTLabour

i can’t tell… is she pro trans rights or against them?

BS…. A page straight out of the luciana berger playbook

Thank god antisemitism has finally gone ... just transgender rights now

Trans rights? Trans people have exactly the same rights as everyone else.

Or … She’s been warned not to attend for her own safety. Because of trans activists’ violent threats Which is what happened.

Why is The Independent newspaper called The Independent when it's a left wing rag? isn't that misleading and false advertising

By ‘won’t attend’ you mean she can’t because of security concerns to her person and the inaction of the Labour leadership to support her?

So Hoyle will support not take action

You mean her stance on 'women's rights' such as, you know, even having a word for women.

Transphobic hate crime reports have quadrupled over the past five years in the UK

it’s her stance on women’s sex-based rights, not trans rights that are making people threaten her security at least get that OK

The old 'too frightened to attend Labour Conference' trope.

Where are the Men WHO BELIEVE HUMANS CANNOT CHANGE SEX?

any interest in what's happened to the MP harassed by Labour's disciplinary?

don't think most of her clp take this kind of thing from Rosie at face value

I disgaree with her wholeheartedly, but the threats and misogyny directed towards her, and women online (and offline) in general, is wholly reprehensible.

This Rosie Duffield. Is she worried that she will get heckled for being a bigot?

Brighton is a friendly seaside town. Rosie Duffield just hasn’t got the guts to stand by her prejudice in a city that doesn’t tolerate homophobic, biphobic or transphobic hate against LGBT people.

I thought she wasn't attending for safety reasons?

Expel her

The left destroys itself always. You actually don’t have to argue with them, just let them argue between themselves and you’ve won.

I hope she does a lot a listening and finds a little bit more room in her heart.

The UKLabour has a problem with women.

Mariel63473494 Dispute? How about the vile and violent threats made to her by the tra/mra's? It's about anti-women ideology that leads to women being told to keep their mouth's shut for their own safety. Disgusting.

Stating reality is not cruelty. Outrageous that Keir Starmer has stayed silent. IStandWithRosieDuffield

Rosie Duffield is an extremist. She fills trans people's hearts with a fresh terror every time she opens her mouth to speak against their existence. Speaking against a person's existence is s threat.

Golly, the misogyny in the replies here 🙄guess zero tolerance to vawg is genX now.

Who would have thought that the UK would have TWO Tory parties.

Maybe HoCSpeaker may want to state that it is unacceptable for MPs to make statements which push transgender people to the margins of society and treat them not as who they are. I'll wait.

what has happened to Freedom of speech and equality? Not a good example at all. Sincerely, hope to resolve this among the same group, please.

Lol, good. She shouldn't be a Labour MP at all.

Her defence of women’s rights, you mean.

How utterly pathetic is the UK? I have asked several people TERFs and GCs, and not one has been able to produce any 'threats' So it's really just RosieDuffield having a whine that people are calling out her bigotry. It's depressingly pathetic. Do better RosieDuffield1

Duffield has at no stage apologised for dismissing transgender people as 'other' or for the hypocritical comments she has made that only females are women (ergo trans women are not) whilst also claiming to support trans people. Instead, she's dug her heels in.

Trying to stop her freedom of choice.

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