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This afternoon.

Earlier…

A Labour frontbencher has criticised the BBC for focusing on “identity issues” and effectively stoking a row over trans rights in the party.

In an interview on Wednesday morning shadow justice secretary David Lammy said Today programme presenter Nick Robinson was “deliberately asking me about an issue that you know does not come up on the doorstep.”

BBC stoking row over trans rights, Labour frontbencher David Lammy says (Independent.co.uk)

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Andrew Marr (left) and UK Party Leader Kier Starmer on last Sunday’s  The Andrew Marr Show on BBC 1

This afternoon.

Via Pink News:

Labour MP Emily Thornberry has expertly demonstrated how the question “do only women have a cervix” should be answered without feeding into a toxic debate.

The reductive question has become the centre of political discussion since Labour leader Keir Starmer said it’s “not right” to say only women have a cervix during an interview with Andrew Marr.

That question was put to him in relation to a tweet posted by Labour MP Rosie Duffield in August 2020, where she claimed only women have cervixes. Following Starmer’s interview, health secretary Sajid Javid wrongly suggested that Duffield’s initial statement was a “scientific fact”.

Instead of discussing any of the real issues facing trans, non-binary and intersex people – such as the ongoing healthcare crisis – journalists have instead rushed to add fuel to the fire.

The debate was raised during an interview with Emily Thornberry on Politics Live – and she responded in the best possible way.

Thornberry told the hosts that claiming only women have a cervix is “factually inaccurate”, adding: “There are men who have cervixes – there are men who are trans and they’re men. It’s just factually wrong.”

Grilling politicians on who has a cervix isn’t journalism – it’s toxic, transphobic theatre (Pink News)

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