UK Communist Party Reaffirms Transgender Rights After Unexpected J.K. Rowling Endorsement

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In an unexpected twist, the Communist Party of Britain found itself in the spotlight following an endorsement from J.K. Rowling, who has gained notoriety for her controversial views on transgender issues. Rowling, widely known for her Harry Potter series, has recently become equally recognized for her outspoken stance against trans women.

 

The drama began when Rowling urged her social media followers to support Communist candidates, following a tweet from the anti-trans feminist group For Women Scotland. The group had claimed that a spokesperson for the Communist Party had voiced support for recognizing the nature of biological sex. This endorsement was a surprising turn for many, given Rowling's contentious history with transgender rights.

 

In response to the endorsement, the Communist Party of Britain released a statement on its official X account, seeking to clarify its position. The party reaffirmed its unwavering support for transgender people's rights, stating that it supports the right of trans individuals to medically transition and access healthcare. Furthermore, the party emphasized the right of transgender people to live equal, full, and meaningful lives socially, economically, and politically. The statement underscored the belief that true liberation for transgender people could only be achieved under socialism.

 

Rowling's endorsement, which is likely to be rescinded given the party's clear stance on transgender rights, followed her op-ed published in The Times of London. In the piece, Rowling expressed her disillusionment with the Labour Party due to its support for trans rights. A longtime Labour supporter, she lamented that she would "struggle to vote" for Labour in the upcoming elections, accusing the party of abandoning women.

 

This episode highlights the deepening divisions in the U.K. over transgender rights and the recognition of biological sex. Political and social groups continue to navigate this contentious issue, often finding themselves at odds. The Communist Party of Britain's reaffirmation of its support for transgender rights is a significant stance, especially in the context of the controversy surrounding Rowling's endorsement.

 

The controversy underscores the complexity of the ongoing debate on transgender rights in the U.K. Rowling's unexpected endorsement of the Communist Party brought attention to the nuanced positions within the political landscape. The party's clear reaffirmation of its support for transgender rights, despite the potentially detrimental endorsement, marks a significant moment in this ongoing discourse.

 

As the political landscape continues to evolve, the debate over transgender rights and recognition of biological sex remains a contentious and polarizing issue. The Communist Party of Britain's stance reflects a broader commitment to equality and social justice, even as it navigates the complexities of modern political endorsements. This incident serves as a reminder of the ongoing struggle for transgender rights and the importance of clear and unwavering support from political entities.

 

 

Credit: Daily Beast 2024-06-26

 

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[KhunLA]

"J.K. Rowling, who has gained notoriety for her controversial views on transgender issues."

 

What's controversial ? There's 2 sexes; male & female/man & woman.   Her views are spot on.  It's the other's views that are controversial.   

 

You have a penis, you're a male/man.   You're not  woman, you're not transitioning to be a woman, and you will never be a women.  

 

Same if you don't have a penis, you not a man, you're not transitioning to be a man, and you will never be a man.

 

To think otherwise is controversial to biology.  You can dress up as either and pretend, but that's about it.

[JonnyF]

5 hours ago, Social Media said:

In an unexpected twist, the Communist Party of Britain found itself in the spotlight following an endorsement from J.K. Rowling, who has gained notoriety for her controversial views on transgender issues. Rowling, widely known for her Harry Potter series, has recently become equally recognized for her outspoken stance against trans women.

 

Her views are not controversial, they are scientific facts.

 

She is not against trans women, she just believes biological men should not be in changing rooms with biological females. 

 

Sad to see her supporting the Commies though, but nobody's perfect. 

[Chomper Higgot]

I wonder if J K Rowling read the Communist Party’s policy on Transgender issues?

 

 

 

 

[Chomper Higgot]

28 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

 

Her views are not controversial, they are scientific facts.

 

That’s rather a blunt statement Jonny, I have a suspicion it’s ill-informed.

 

https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2016/gender-lines-science-transgender-identity/

[KhunLA]

Is there a political party in the UK that doesn't fly the alphabet flag, or else, face the wrath of being homophobic or what ever the new adjective s.

[JonnyF]

1 minute ago, Chomper Higgot said:

 

That’s rather a blunt statement Jonny, I have a suspicion it’s ill-informed.

 

https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2016/gender-lines-science-transgender-identity/

 

A load of Woke nonsense.

 

Men have a penis.

 

Women have a vagina.

 

Sue me.  

 

 

[KhunLA]

1 minute ago, Chomper Higgot said:

 

That’s rather a blunt statement Jonny, I have a suspicion it’s ill-informed.

 

https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2016/gender-lines-science-transgender-identity/

Not really.  J.K. is about woman's right to privacy when using rest rooms.  Men should not be allowed in them.  Kind of simple and straight forward.

[Chomper Higgot]

4 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

 

A load of Woke nonsense.

 

Men have a penis.

 

Women have a vagina.

 

Sue me.  

 

 

No need to ‘sue’ you Jonny.

 

Just responding to your ill-informed statements about what ‘science’ says with links to what science actually says from one of the world’s to universities.

 

 

[Chomper Higgot]

5 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

Not really.  J.K. is about woman's right to privacy when using rest rooms.  Men should not be allowed in them.  Kind of simple and straight forward.

She’s had bit more to say on the matter than that.

 

 

 

 

[JonnyF]

2 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

No need to ‘sue’ you Jonny.

 

Just responding to your ill-informed statements about what ‘science’ says with links to what science actually says from one of the world’s to universities.

 

 

 

Some nonsense from a Woke US University doesn't change the fact that a man has a penis and a woman has a cervix.

 

You're free to have your fantasies and good luck to you, just don't expect normal people to play along in your game of make believe. 

[Pickwick]

1 hour ago, JonnyF said:

 

Some nonsense from a Woke US University doesn't change the fact that a man has a penis and a woman has a cervix.

 

You're free to have your fantasies and good luck to you, just don't expect normal people to play along in your game of make believe. 

Unfortunately, 'normal' people normally don't know much about scientific 'facts' as you put them, which is a great shame because then we wouldn't need to wade through all the nonsense that women have XX chromosomes and men XY and that's that. Because that is not that. There are millions of people who 'scientifically' do not fall into your neat little 'normal' people groups. 1 in 500 people born with XXY. 1 in 1000 born with XXX. 1 in 2-5000 born intersex. Those are medical facts, not made up or delusional thinking. Given the 'facts' above, in my small UK village of 5000 we already have a handful of people who do not fit into your 'normal' groups. Now multiply that by 8.1 billion. Or shall we just ignore those people because they don't fit your idea of normality?

 

The second problem with 'normal' people, especially those who use words like woke a lot and irony of ironies 'sheeple' is that they are manipulated far easier than they would care to acknowledge, despite many 'scientific' studies alerting them to this fact. Media, mainstream or otherwise, is desperate for your business, and keeping you either fearful or angry is a good way to keep you engaged with their business model. Internet fora, like the one we are using now, are driven by advertising revenue -they know which threads get people angry and posting, and the clicks keep coming =  and we are then in a perpetual loop of people getting angry about issues that - happily for the politicians - distract from the bigger, more important stuff (like why are we paying more and more tax for fewer and worse services etc).

 

Just to be clear: I am not suggesting at all that every transgender person is born intersex etc. but it seems quite obvious there would be a lot of overlap. The media love the story of the man dressing up as a woman just to get into the female toilets (which is actually about a heterosexual pervert) and the internet lights up as if this is biggest problem in life faced by women every day, when it is a few isolated incidents out of billions of people. The irony is that women do have to be fearful - of heterosexual men. That is a well-documented and far bigger problem, yet oddly gets a fraction of the airtime. 

 

Those isolated incidents, of heterosexual men pretending to be transgender, tell anyone with a brain that there are issues that need to be carefully thought about and in the future I am sure we can find solutions, it is not that difficult. When driving up and down this country I see ladyboys going into the female toilets all the time, without issue. Of course, everyone is inside a private cubicle and this seems to be sufficient. I am aware that Thais have a different expectation of privacy though, as any man new to Thailand's toilets quickly finds out when the cleaning ladies do not stop their work despite you being in mid pee.

 

The transgender activists, though vocal, are a tiny percent of the transgender population. The media amplifies and distorts this and everyone plays along. It has been ever thus, just with different groups.

[Chomper Higgot]

1 hour ago, Pickwick said:

Unfortunately, 'normal' people normally don't know much about scientific 'facts' as you put them, which is a great shame because then we wouldn't need to wade through all the nonsense that women have XX chromosomes and men XY and that's that. Because that is not that. There are millions of people who 'scientifically' do not fall into your neat little 'normal' people groups. 1 in 500 people born with XXY. 1 in 1000 born with XXX. 1 in 2-5000 born intersex. Those are medical facts, not made up or delusional thinking. Given the 'facts' above, in my small UK village of 5000 we already have a handful of people who do not fit into your 'normal' groups. Now multiply that by 8.1 billion. Or shall we just ignore those people because they don't fit your idea of normality?

 

The second problem with 'normal' people, especially those who use words like woke a lot and irony of ironies 'sheeple' is that they are manipulated far easier than they would care to acknowledge, despite many 'scientific' studies alerting them to this fact. Media, mainstream or otherwise, is desperate for your business, and keeping you either fearful or angry is a good way to keep you engaged with their business model. Internet fora, like the one we are using now, are driven by advertising revenue -they know which threads get people angry and posting, and the clicks keep coming =  and we are then in a perpetual loop of people getting angry about issues that - happily for the politicians - distract from the bigger, more important stuff (like why are we paying more and more tax for fewer and worse services etc).

 

Just to be clear: I am not suggesting at all that every transgender person is born intersex etc. but it seems quite obvious there would be a lot of overlap. The media love the story of the man dressing up as a woman just to get into the female toilets (which is actually about a heterosexual pervert) and the internet lights up as if this is biggest problem in life faced by women every day, when it is a few isolated incidents out of billions of people. The irony is that women do have to be fearful - of heterosexual men. That is a well-documented and far bigger problem, yet oddly gets a fraction of the airtime. 

 

Those isolated incidents, of heterosexual men pretending to be transgender, tell anyone with a brain that there are issues that need to be carefully thought about and in the future I am sure we can find solutions, it is not that difficult. When driving up and down this country I see ladyboys going into the female toilets all the time, without issue. Of course, everyone is inside a private cubicle and this seems to be sufficient. I am aware that Thais have a different expectation of privacy though, as any man new to Thailand's toilets quickly finds out when the cleaning ladies do not stop their work despite you being in mid pee.

 

The transgender activists, though vocal, are a tiny percent of the transgender population. The media amplifies and distorts this and everyone plays along. It has been ever thus, just with different groups.

Excellent post.

 

Links as follows :

 

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/differences-in-sex-development/#:~:text=Some people have a chromosome,full physical development at puberty.

 

 

[rovinman]

3 hours ago, JonnyF said:

 

A load of Woke nonsense.

 

Men have a penis.

 

Women have a vagina.

 

Sue me.  

 

 

 

What about the Hermaphrodites who have both Male AND Female attributes  !
Of the World population 0.018 %  is Hermaphrodite, a rare condition, { but amounts to 1,440,000 persons }.  

Except in S. Africa, where it is THE MOST COMMON Intersex condition  !
{ https://www.sciencedirect.com }

[Purdey]

I wonder if she has an opinion on hermaphrodites? They do exist. Which toilet should they use?

[Thingamabob]

4 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

I wonder if J K Rowling read the Communist Party’s policy on Transgender issues?

 

 

 

 

That is indeed the right question. It appears she has made a mistake, given her record on the issues.

[JonnyF]

55 minutes ago, rovinman said:

 

What about the Hermaphrodites who have both Male AND Female attributes  !
Of the World population 0.018 %  is Hermaphrodite, a rare condition, { but amounts to 1,440,000 persons }.  

Except in S. Africa, where it is THE MOST COMMON Intersex condition  !
{ https://www.sciencedirect.com }

 

Extremely rare exceptions that prove the rule.

 

Dodgy Dave from Stoke cannot put on a dress and lipstick, call himself Davina and start using the women's bogs.  

[riclag]

5 hours ago, JonnyF said:

 

Her views are not controversial, they are scientific facts.

 

She is not against trans women, she just believes biological men should not be in changing rooms with biological females. 

 

Sad to see her supporting the Commies though, but nobody's perfect. 

 

 

“Sad to see her supporting the Commies though, but nobody's perfect”.

 

Thats the rub for me , my friend.

 Simple terms:

When the apple has rot , dont cut out the rot and eat the rest, dont accept the apple and throw it in the garbage!

 

methinks

 

[Pickwick]

32 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

 

Extremely rare exceptions that prove the rule.

 

Dodgy Dave from Stoke cannot put on a dress and lipstick, call himself Davina and start using the women's bogs.  

Quite right. Dodgy Dave is a heterosexual pervert up to no good and should be dealt with accordingly. But, you are just continuing the trope I mentioned in my post above; maybe you work for Asean Now and are part of the machine that wants to keep people angry and clicking away, who knows?

 

By the way, millions of people (X 45; XXX; XXY; Intersex etc.) are millions of people, whether you try and label them an exception or not to some made up rule. A small percentage of the world-wide population for sure, but then so is the transgender community as a whole (and an even smaller percentage are trans activists, not that you would think it with the rantings on here).

[Chomper Higgot]

1 hour ago, JonnyF said:

 

Extremely rare exceptions that prove the rule.

 

Dodgy Dave from Stoke cannot put on a dress and lipstick, call himself Davina and start using the women's bogs.  

Science and facts that proved you wrong.

[JonnyF]

30 minutes ago, Pickwick said:

A small percentage of the world-wide population for sure, but then so is the transgender community as a whole (and an even smaller percentage are trans activists, not that you would think it with the rantings on here).

 

There certainly seem to be more trans people by the year. Almost like it's becoming a fashion, encouraged in children by the left. Every actress in Hollywood seems to have at least one trans kid. Uncanny how the people who want them always seem to get them.

 

Reminds me of the time I picked up a very striking lady in Pattaya. Cut to my hotel room a few hours later I was shocked when she said "Mister, having a small d**k isn't such a big deal". I wasn't happy but I decided to be totally honest and replied "I guess so, but I'd rather you didn't have one at all". 😃

 

Bad-Dum-Tuss. 

 

I'm here all week. 

 

 

 

Edited Wednesday at 08:18 AM by JonnyF

[JonnyF]

12 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Science and facts that proved you wrong.

 

Only in your little fantasy land Chomps.

[Dionigi]

6 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

 

That’s rather a blunt statement Jonny, I have a suspicion it’s ill-informed.

 

https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2016/gender-lines-science-transgender-identity/

None of those studies alter the fact that transgender women who have gone through puberty have a distinct advantage over women when it comes to strength in sports, nor does it give the right for people claiming to be transgender and being imprisoned for raping women to be admitted to a womens prison. These are what JKR is against and she is absolutely correct.

[John Drake]

She's only got one place to turn, now.  Nigel.

[Bday Prang]

Just now, John Drake said:

She's only got one place to turn, now.  Nigel.

Same as everybody else in the UK

[Captor]

19 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

No need to ‘sue’ you Jonny.

 

Just responding to your ill-informed statements about what ‘science’ says with links to what science actually says from one of the world’s to universities.

 

 

Is the univercity pro Palestine as well?

[Chomper Higgot]

3 hours ago, Captor said:

Is the univercity pro Palestine as well?

I’m not going to waste any time at all trying to figure out by what tortured part of thought that arrived.

[JonnyF]

4 hours ago, Captor said:

Is the univercity pro Palestine as well?

 

They're "liberals", so effectively yes they will be Pro Palestine and anti Israel. 

 

This also reflects "their science" that another poster is trying to pass off as factual regarding how women can have a penis 😃.

 

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/7/13/faculty-survey-political-leaning/

 

[Chomper Higgot]

1 hour ago, JonnyF said:

 

They're "liberals", so effectively yes they will be Pro Palestine and anti Israel. 

 

This also reflects "their science" that another poster is trying to pass off as factual regarding how women can have a penis 😃.

 

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/7/13/faculty-survey-political-leaning/

 

Having made this statement 

 

“Her views are not controversial, they are scientific facts.”

 

And then presented with the science on the matter which demonstrates the fallacy of your claim, you the go on the attack the source of the science and ignore the medical facts presented by the NHS on the matter.

 

 

Well of course you do.

 

Admitting you were wrong in the face of facts isn’t something we expect.

[JonnyF]

18 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Having made this statement 

 

“Her views are not controversial, they are scientific facts.”

 

And then presented with the science on the matter which demonstrates the fallacy of your claim, you the go on the attack the source of the science and ignore the medical facts presented by the NHS on the matter.

 

 

Well of course you do.

 

Admitting you were wrong in the face of facts isn’t something we expect.

 

You think you have "facts" from a hard left Uni paper that women can have a penis?

 

😆

 

OK boss.