Rishi Sunak stood in the rain outside 10 Downing Street on Wednesday (22 May) and announced that voters will be heading to the polls in a general election on 4 July. Polls suggest that the frontrunner to enter Number 10 is Keir Starmer, with the BBC reporting that Labour’s lead over the Tories is more than 17 percentage points. While Labour leader Starmer has voiced his support for the trans community in the past, his recent comments around trans rights make it sound as if he is wavering.
His pledges to the trans community range from firm plans to introduce a trans-inclusive conversion therapy ban to reiterating that the Gender Recognition Act, which allows trans people to legally change their gender, needs to be updated. However, he has also voiced his support for so-called gender-critical individuals and has supported several Conservative policies which could . Since becoming Labour leader four years ago, Keir Starmer’s approach to trans rights has been a mixed bag of positive and negative pledges to the community, should he become prime minister.
While the former director of public prosecutions has previously said that trans women are women, and trans men are men, he and his party have U-turned and shown support for legislation that seems to say the complete opposite. Last month, while appearing on , Starmer faced criticism for appearing to support . When asked if it was for Duffield to say “women have a cervix,” Starmer replied: “Biologically, she of course is r.
