#nadia whittome

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Nottingham East Labour MP Nadia Whittome

Credit: Ahluwalia@ahluwalia via Gay Times Magazine

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The Nottingham MP Nadia Whittome is aware of YMCA

On Thursday in Parliament there was a session entitled Topical Questions and a wide range of MPs contributed which included Nadia Whittome who is the Nottingham East representative. Her question began with the reference to A YMCA report and the response from the Government came from Lucy Frazer who is the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. The item is available here and I have put…

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Nadia Whittome by Tim Walker for Vogue UK's Pride Portfolio, July 2023

Whittome, 26, is Labour MP for Nottingham East, and the youngest MP in the House of Commons.

Styled by Kate Phelan.

[lesellieknope]

keir starmer is a fucking melt but my god it feels good to not be a sobbing mess for once on election night once in my life

[barely-coherent-anarchist]

TW// murder, transphobia, misgendering

so if you don't keep up with the news in Britain, I'll fill you in.

yesterday, Brianna Ghey was murdered in her hometown of Warrington. She was only 16. She was also trans, which considering what I'm going to discuss in this post, is relevant.

However, not even a single day after her death, the GC ('gender critical' for those who aren't in the know) crowd have wasted no time in disrespecting her memory, by repeatedly misgendering her and deadnaming her.

here are just a few examples from the comments of this post by Nadia Whittome MP (fair warning, these responses are pretty fucking vile to say the least):

This is what 'gender critical', or TERF, ideology inevitably leads to. Not only has a young trans person been murdered in cold blood, but hateful assholes like these lot are going out of their way to disrespect her, even in death.

and as one final insult to her memory, the british state do not allow anyone under the age of 18 to legally change their marker regarding gender on any official documents, so in addition to the disrespect on social media, the UK government is facilitating her being misgendered on official documents in death.

rest in peace, Brianna Ghey, you deserved so much better than this.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Andrew Doyle

Published: Jul 5, 2024

Keir Starmer surely cannot believe his luck. He has achieved a landslide victory by doing very little. He received fewer votes than Jeremy Corbyn in 2019, and yet has ended up with a whopping 412 seats in parliament. The rise of Nigel Farage’s Reform Party has split the right-wing vote and ushered the Conservatives along to their worst ever election result, plunging them to even greater depths than the disastrous election of 1906 under Arthur Balfour.

This was very much a Conservative loss rather than a Labour victory. There is no great enthusiasm for Starmer, and his majority is an indictment of the “First Past The Post” system which, as I have argued previously, should be abandoned in favour of Proportional Representation. It is unsurprising that upon his victory in Clacton-on-Sea, one of Farage’s first public statements has been a commitment to campaign for electoral reform. His party received over 4 million votes and has returned only 5 seats. So that’s 1% of the seats for 14% of the votes. Compare that with the Liberal Democrats, who have 11% of the seats for only 12% of the votes. Most of us will see that there is a problem here, irrespective of our political affiliations.

Worse still, Labour’s victory will empower the culture warriors, those identity-obsessed activists who have accrued so much power already in our major institutions. While the Tory party claimed to be fighting a “war on woke”, all the while enabling the ideology of Critical Social Justice to flourish, leading Labour politicians have cheered on the culture warriors while pretending that they were nothing more than a right-wing fantasy. We have seen some pushback over the past two years in regards to the worst excesses of this movement, but all of this may soon be undone. Now that the identitarians have their political wing in power, we should expect a few years of regression.

Take the example of Dr Hillary Cass, now deservedly elevated to the House of Lords, whose review into paediatric “gender medicine” has catalysed a sea-change in public perception. While many medical journals and institutions are so ideologically captured that they have continued to deny the significance of Cass’s findings - preferring instead to continue with discredited and evidence-free “gender-affirming care” - the Labour Party has pledged to implement her recommendations. Wes Streeting, the new Health Secretary and potential future leader of the Labour Party (who narrowly held on to his Ilford North seat last night by a little over 500 votes), has made clear that the Cass Review will guide Labour policy. Starmer, meanwhile, has turned a blind eye to the bullying of MP Rosie Duffield within his own party and has expressed very little understanding of the issues. He has come around to the view that 99.9% of women “don’t have a penis”, which is still approximately 33,500 female penises in the UK alone. This is our new Prime Minister.

And here is Nadia Whittome, who has just been returned in Nottingham East, claiming that Labour will push through gender self-identification with “no ifs, no buts” and “resist calls to exclude trans women from women’s spaces”.

Such a system would have seen double rapist Adam Graham – who identified as Isla Bryson once he had popped on a blonde wig and pink leggings – accommodated in a women’s prison. Whittome also calls for a “ban on conversion therapy” with “no exemptions”. Such a policy would likely criminalise those health professionals who follow the recommendations of the Cass Review and take a psychotherapeutic approach when it comes to confused and vulnerable children. You can read my piece on why a ban on trans conversion therapy is effectively a new form of gay conversion therapy here.

Anneliese Dodds, who won her seat in Oxford East last night, has continually shown that she has a meagre grasp on gender identity ideology and why it represents such a threat to the rights of women and gay people. She has stated that “Labour will ban conversion practices outright”, in spite of appeals from groups such as Sex Matters and LGB Alliance to rethink this position. It is as though she is determined not to read the Cass Review, which was unequivocal on this matter:

“The intent of psychological intervention is not to change the person’s perception of who they are but to work with them to explore their concerns and experiences and help alleviate their distress, regardless of whether they pursue a medical pathway or not. It is harmful to equate this approach to conversion therapy as it may prevent young people from getting the emotional support they deserve.”

And yet Labour politicians continue to push for a ban on “conversion therapy” which could put parents and doctors on the wrong side of the law simply for rejecting harmful “gender-affirming care”. One can only hope that leading figures in the new Labour government read over this policy response to its manifesto by the Gay Men’s Network and reflect on the issues.

Labour is also promising to implement its Race Equality Act, a regressive policy which will effectively prioritise equality of outcome over equality of opportunity (in other words, “equity” rather than equality). Labour wishes to ensure that those from ethnic minorities are entitled to “full right to equal pay”, somehow not realising that this has been enshrined in law since 1965. As Kemi Badenoch has pointed out, “Labour’s proposed new race law will set people against each other and see millions wasted on pointless red tape. It is obviously already illegal to pay someone less because of their race. The new law would be a bonanza for dodgy, activist lawyers.”

Labour is taking its lead from Critical Race Theory in assuming that all disparities in outcome are evidence of systemic racism. This faith-based position was challenged by the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, which found that there is no evidence at all that the legal and educational systems of this country are rigged against minorities. Activists were so furious that the facts went against their precious narrative that the commission’s chairman, Tony Sewell, was compared to Joseph Goebbels and the Ku Klux Klan. These privileged and predominately white “woke” activists simply cannot tolerate black people who don’t know their place.

And so under Labour we are likely to see these racially divisive ideas implemented under the guise of “anti-racism”. In its manifesto, Labour also pledged to “reverse the Conservatives’ decision to downgrade the monitoring of antisemitic and Islamophobic hate”. This looks very much like an insinuation that the party will reinstate police recording of “non-crime hate incidents”, a clear affront to freedom of expression. It is a staple of “woke” activism that censorship is necessary to ensure social justice. Given Labour’s ideological steer, it is likely that under its watch free speech will erode even further.

I very much hope to be proven wrong in all of this, and that Labour will learn to reject the regressive and divisive influence of intersectional identity politics. The Tories were bad enough, with their restrictions on peaceful protest and their attacks on free speech via the Online Safety Bill. But now we have a government whose authoritarian instincts are even more pronounced. Progress is often an inchmeal affair, and sometimes we have to suffer the occasional retrograde lapses along the way. So we would be wise to brace ourselves for the next few years. For now at least, the culture warriors have the upper hand.

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If you want to see where the UK is heading, look where Canada is now.

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so the vote on Winter Fuel Allowance is tomorrow (tuesday) and a rebellion is due to take place

and there’re rumours that as many as FIFTY labour MPs could rebel, and it’s believed the government is prepared to suspend every single one of them

that would leave the house looking like this. purple is not a party – it’s the 57 labour suspendees. hot pink is the Independent Alliance, formed last week

the seven already-suspended labour members are dead set to also vote against the government, which of course will not help their cases when they’re reviewed at the beginning of next year. in fact, a brutal suspension of fifty-odd other MPs could make them more willing to leave altogether

the IA has made overtures towards the seven already-suspended members trying to convince them to join them, and wishful thinkers can easily imagine them taking up that offer. with household names such as mcdonnell and long-bailey, rising stars such as sultana and begum, and elite organisers such as byrne and burgon, this group would be a powerful parliamentary force

unfortunately, there is a lot of wishful thinking in imagining all seven joining the IA all at once. the new organisation is naissant and brittle, this pressure may cause directional confusion and lead the organisation to failure. but there may be a slow trickle – after tomorrow’s events, and their fallout over the coming weeks and months, some may begin to join the IA, perhaps long-bailey, old mcdonnell, or sultana

the new group of maybe fifty would include heavy hitters such as clive lewis, kim johnson, nadia whittome and diane abbott. with such a large grouping they’re bound to do a little organising, even if it’s just a meeting room or a resource pool, because they won’t form a formal faction without being fully expelled from labour

which leads me to my point. wishful thinkers, such as myself, want the Independent Alliance to succeed. socialist independents came so close in so many seats, from ilford north to preston to slough to ilford south. imagine if the candidates of this movement had a little extra push, a little extra resources. imagine a world where we didn’t have wes streeting. we want the five MPs who made it to form a platform to aid the candidates who didn’t, for 2029. but the onus is on them to turn their foot-in-the-door organisation into an actual mass membership party. it’ll be work, hence their immediate priorities being angled low, with their absolute dogshit name. it won’t be a year or even two before they become a bona fide party, if that even succeeds

the swathes of labour suspendees throws a total spanner in the works

no: this time tomorrow, this time next month, the uk will not have a new democratic socialist political party. dark lord corbyn will not rise again. it’s total melodrama to think a massive party will form, just like that. there will not be a new 62-member party. flinging multiple career partisan social democrats together with pro-palestine anti-austerity activists, and the latter’s capacity to achieve what they want to achieve will be hella diminished. attempting to coordinate these disparate forces is a fool’s errand and should not, must not be attempted

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it’s entirely possible that some of the fifty-odd will take the plunge and join the IA. it may even be mathematically inevitable depending on the numbers. there’re reports that the greens are willing to cooperate with the IA on certain matters in order to corral parliamentary procedure and coordinate shared agendas, and it’s not insane to think that plaid cymru could join in collaborating this way. if certain ex-labour members join the IA directly due to ideological alignment, others could cooperate with it in this sort of way

the overwhelming majority of the suspended members will return to the parliamentary labour party in six months’ time. some won’t. some may’ve joined the IA. some may’ve even joined the greens. many of the rest cannot join the IA due to its need to become a freestanding socialist party, but there’s this cooperation mechanism

i’m talking broad-front coalition building

if the IA and greens deepen their cooperation it could result in a non-aggression agreement. in ilford north, secretary streeting won by 500 votes, and the greens came a distant fifth with 1700 votes. if the IA succeeds in transforming itself into a party, they can certainly win in this seat, and a green pact would help massively. galvanising a green-plaid pact too would pile on the pressure and punish labour everywhere, not just wales. an IA-green-plaid coalition faction would command 13 members, perhaps pushing 20 with new IA inductees. but there is absolutely space there for the soft left that the IA can’t accept, a fourth pillar. a sort of “progressive” group that yer dad could vote for

the IA needs to stick to its socialist, anti-war mission. but with events this dynamic, it helps to keep an eye on the larger picture. the IA will, if it succeeds, become, in time, our country’s newest party, and one i’m ready to join and get out on the street for. events are moving fast. there is a space for a new centre-left presence. it should be encouraged to organise and cooperate. the IA can’t, mustn’t have them, but they should be encouraged to help themselves. they are, and can be, allies of the true left. starmer has a world to lose, after all

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Them reports from the UK:

//A group of MPs — the abbreviation for members of Parliament — from the Labour and Conservative parties used their debate time on February 2 to mark the beginning of LGBTQ+ History Month in the U.K., and express support for trans people specifically. Dame Angela Eagle, the second out lesbian MP in U.K. history, decried what she called “the disgraceful targeting and problematizing of transgender people” which she said would inevitably lead to the erosion of all women’s rights.

But the most emotional words of the day came from Nadia Whittome, part of the Labour Party’s Socialist Campaign Group and a self-described queer woman. In her remarks, Whittome compared the current wave of anti-trans sentiment to the infamous Section 28, which from 1988 to 2003 forbade any mention of LGBTQ+ identities or history in U.K. schools.//

According to Gay Times Elliot Colburn, the Conservative MP for Carshalton and Wallington, pointed to opinion polls that show that a majority if British people support trans people:

“There does seem to be a hysteria around trans issues at the moment and often discussions around trans issues have become so blown out of all proportion and so lacking in, actually, any fact that I think we’ve actually lost sight here of what people are attempting to do,” he said.

“LGBT History Month is important for us not just to reflect on the past, but also to send a message to the LGBT community more widely that they are heard and they are valid and their existence is valid.”

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I’d really like to emphasise to anyone who is less familiar with the situation here that Labour is also a long way from supporting trans people.

[betweendoctorsanddetectives]

We really need wider awareness and opposition to her & this attitude within Labour.

[wankerwatch]

Commons Vote

On: Great British Energy Bill: Second Reading

Ayes: 348 (96.2% Lab, 2.3% Ind, 1.2% Green, 0.3% UUP) Noes: 95 (98.9% Con, 1.1% DUP) Absent: ~207

Day's business papers: 2024-9-5

Likely Referenced Bill: Great British Energy Bill

Description: A Bill to make provision about Great British Energy.

Originating house: Commons Current house: Commons Bill Stage: Money resolution

Individual Votes:

Ayes

Labour (329 votes)

Abena Oppong-Asare Abtisam Mohamed Adam Jogee Adam Thompson Afzal Khan Al Carns Alan Gemmell Alan Strickland Alex Baker Alex Ballinger Alex Barros-Curtis Alex Davies-Jones Alex Mayer Alex McIntyre Alex Norris Alice Macdonald Alison Hume Alison McGovern Alistair Strathern Allison Gardner Amanda Hack Amanda Martin Andrew Cooper Andrew Gwynne Andrew Lewin Andrew Ranger Andrew Western Andy MacNae Andy Slaughter Anna Dixon Anna Gelderd Anna McMorrin Anna Turley Anneliese Midgley Antonia Bance Ashley Dalton Bambos Charalambous Barry Gardiner Bayo Alaba Beccy Cooper Becky Gittins Ben Coleman Ben Goldsborough Bill Esterson Blair McDougall Brian Leishman Bridget Phillipson Callum Anderson Calvin Bailey Carolyn Harris Cat Smith Catherine Atkinson Catherine Fookes Catherine McKinnell Catherine West Charlotte Nichols Chi Onwurah Chris Bloore Chris Bryant Chris Curtis Chris Evans Chris Hinchliff Chris Kane Chris McDonald Chris Murray Chris Vince Chris Webb Christian Wakeford Claire Hazelgrove Claire Hughes Clive Betts Clive Efford Clive Lewis Connor Rand Damien Egan Dan Aldridge Dan Carden Dan Tomlinson Daniel Francis Daniel Zeichner Danny Beales Darren Jones Darren Paffey Dave Robertson David Baines David Burton-Sampson David Pinto-Duschinsky David Smith David Taylor Dawn Butler Debbie Abrahams Deirdre Costigan Derek Twigg Diana Johnson Douglas Alexander Douglas McAllister Ed Miliband Elaine Stewart Ellie Reeves Elsie Blundell Emma Foody Emma Hardy Emma Lewell-Buck Emma Reynolds Euan Stainbank Fabian Hamilton Feryal Clark Fleur Anderson Florence Eshalomi Frank McNally Fred Thomas Gill Furniss Gill German Gordon McKee Graham Stringer Grahame Morris Gregor Poynton Gurinder Singh Josan Hamish Falconer Harpreet Uppal Heidi Alexander Helen Hayes Helena Dollimore Henry Tufnell Ian Lavery Ian Murray Imogen Walker Irene Campbell Jack Abbott Jacob Collier Jade Botterill Jake Richards James Asser James Frith James Murray James Naish Janet Daby Jayne Kirkham Jeevun Sandher Jeff Smith Jen Craft Jenny Riddell-Carpenter Jess Asato Jess Phillips Jessica Morden Jessica Toale Jim Dickson Jim McMahon Jo Platt Jo Stevens Jo White Jodie Gosling Joe Morris Joe Powell Johanna Baxter John Grady John Whitby Jon Pearce Jon Trickett Jonathan Brash Jonathan Davies Jonathan Reynolds Josh Dean Josh Fenton-Glynn Josh MacAlister Josh Newbury Josh Simons Julia Buckley Julie Minns Juliet Campbell Justin Madders Kanishka Narayan Karl Turner Kate Dearden Kate Osamor Kate Osborne Katie White Katrina Murray Keir Mather Kerry McCarthy Kevin Bonavia Kevin McKenna Kim Leadbeater Kirsteen Sullivan Kirsty McNeill Laura Kyrke-Smith Lauren Sullivan Laurence Turner Lee Barron Lee Pitcher Leigh Ingham Lewis Atkinson Liam Byrne Liam Conlon Lilian Greenwood Lillian Jones Linsey Farnsworth Liz Kendall Liz Twist Lloyd Hatton Lola McEvoy Louise Jones Lucy Rigby Luke Akehurst Luke Charters Luke Murphy Luke Pollard Maria Eagle Marie Tidball Mark Ferguson Mark Hendrick Mark Sewards Markus Campbell-Savours Marsha De Cordova Martin McCluskey Martin Rhodes Mary Creagh Mary Glindon Matt Bishop Matt Rodda Matt Turmaine Matthew Patrick Matthew Pennycook Maureen Burke Maya Ellis Meg Hillier Melanie Onn Melanie Ward Miatta Fahnbulleh Michael Payne Michael Shanks Michael Wheeler Michelle Scrogham Michelle Welsh Mike Amesbury Mike Kane Mike Reader Mike Tapp Mohammad Yasin Nadia Whittome Natalie Fleet Natasha Irons Navendu Mishra Neil Duncan-Jordan Nesil Caliskan Nicholas Dakin Nick Thomas-Symonds Noah Law Oliver Ryan Olivia Bailey Olivia Blake Pam Cox Pamela Nash Pat McFadden Patricia Ferguson Patrick Hurley Paul Davies Paul Foster Paul Waugh Paula Barker Paulette Hamilton Perran Moon Peter Dowd Peter Kyle Peter Lamb Peter Prinsley Peter Swallow Phil Brickell Polly Billington Preet Kaur Gill Rachael Maskell Rachel Blake Rachel Hopkins Rachel Taylor Richard Baker Richard Quigley Rosie Duffield Rosie Wrighting Ruth Cadbury Sadik Al-Hassan Sally Jameson Sam Carling Sam Rushworth Samantha Dixon Samantha Niblett Sarah Champion Sarah Coombes Sarah Edwards Sarah Hall Sarah Jones Sarah Owen

Sarah Russell Satvir Kaur Scott Arthur Sean Woodcock Seema Malhotra Sharon Hodgson Shaun Davies Simon Opher Siobhain McDonagh Sojan Joseph Sonia Kumar Stella Creasy Stephen Kinnock Stephen Morgan Steve Race Steve Witherden Steve Yemm Sureena Brackenridge Taiwo Owatemi Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi Tim Roca Toby Perkins Tom Collins Tom Hayes Tom Rutland Tonia Antoniazzi Torcuil Crichton Torsten Bell Tracy Gilbert Tristan Osborne Uma Kumaran Valerie Vaz Warinder Juss Wes Streeting Will Stone Yasmin Qureshi Yuan Yang Zubir Ahmed

Independent (8 votes)

Adnan Hussain Apsana Begum Imran Hussain Iqbal Mohamed John McDonnell Rebecca Long Bailey Richard Burgon Zarah Sultana

Green Party (4 votes)

Adrian Ramsay Carla Denyer Ellie Chowns Siân Berry

Ulster Unionist Party (1 vote)

Robin Swann

Noes

Conservative (94 votes)

Alan Mak Alberto Costa Alex Burghart Alicia Kearns Alison Griffiths Andrew Bowie Andrew Griffith Andrew Mitchell Andrew Murrison Andrew Rosindell Andrew Snowden Aphra Brandreth Ashley Fox Ben Obese-Jecty Ben Spencer Bernard Jenkin Blake Stephenson Bob Blackman Bradley Thomas Caroline Dinenage Caroline Johnson Charlie Dewhirst Chris Philp Claire Coutinho Damian Hinds David Davis David Mundell David Reed David Simmonds Desmond Swayne Edward Argar Edward Leigh Gagan Mohindra Gareth Davies Geoffrey Cox George Freeman Graham Stuart Greg Smith Gregory Stafford Harriet Cross Harriett Baldwin Helen Whately Iain Duncan Smith Jack Rankin James Cartlidge James Cleverly James Wild Jeremy Hunt Jeremy Wright Jesse Norman Joe Robertson John Cooper John Glen John Hayes John Lamont John Whittingdale Joy Morrissey Julia Lopez Julian Lewis Karen Bradley Katie Lam Kevin Hollinrake Kieran Mullan Kit Malthouse Lewis Cocking Lincoln Jopp Louie French Mark Francois Mark Garnier Mark Pritchard Martin Vickers Matt Vickers Mel Stride Mike Wood Mims Davies Neil O'Brien Neil Shastri-Hurst Nick Timothy Nigel Huddleston Oliver Dowden Patrick Spencer Peter Bedford Peter Fortune Priti Patel Rebecca Harris Rebecca Paul Rebecca Smith Richard Fuller Saqib Bhatti Sarah Bool Stuart Anderson Stuart Andrew Tom Tugendhat Victoria Atkins

Democratic Unionist Party (1 vote)

Sammy Wilson

[theliverpoolfclibertines]

Ever hear AOC or Nadia Whittome speak and feel that things might be okay one day