Somebody who calls xirself “Pride in Labour” exclaims:

STATEMENT: Our Response to Labour Councillor’s Transphobia

Transphobia according to whom? The person or people exclaiming, of course.

Between the headline and the piece there’s a shiny banner screaming “Labour must take immediate action against Laurie Burton”. Oh yeah? Maybe Laurie Burton should take action against Pride in Labour.

The pomposity of them is a sight to behold.

Pride in Labour is aware of incidents of transphobia by a Labour councillor in Southend Council. The councillor in question has made deeply transphobic remarks towards the Scottish political activist, Sophie Molly on Twitter/X, and made comments more widely about the trans movement. It is clear there is an issue with transphobia within the party.

Ooh, aware, is it? Well I’m aware of incidents of stupidity by Pride in Labour. Now what do we do?

Who decides what remarks are transphobic? Who decides what remarks are deeply transphobic? Who appointed the deciders? Who asked for any of this?

The councillor has been posting transphobic remarks, including referring to trans women as “blokes”, engaging with people known to push hateful ideology against trans people, and reposting content from the LGB Alliance.

So?

Trans women of course are blokes. Women are women, and trans women are blokes. That’s what “trans” means.

What does “engaging with people” mean? What business is it of Pride in Labour what people a councillor “engages with”?

The claim about “hateful ideology” is of course just their enraged name-calling, which gets less credible the more they do it. It’s neither ideology nor hateful to say that men are not women.

Nobody needs the permission of Pride in Labour to share content from LGB Alliance.

We recognise that people are entitled to their views on any matter

Like hell they do. That’s exactly what they don’t recognize. They think they get to tell us what views we can have.

but when those personal views turn toxic and become harmful to another person who is protected under the Equality Act, disciplinary action must be taken.

And what exactly is Pride in London’s method of determining when personal views “turn toxic”? How does it know when such views “become harmful to another person”? Which person are they talking about?

Pride in Labour will be writing to Southend Council to lodge a formal complaint and will also lodge a complaint with the Labour Party itself. There is no room in the Labour movement for transphobia, and it is important the party acts immediately.

So Pride in Labour doesn’t recognize that people are entitled to their views on any matter. It says it does but it then instantly demonstrates that it doesn’t. Quite a pointless exercise.