The idea that no parent is homophobic and no child ever needs protected from parents is clearly ludicrous as Owen Jones correctly says. Of course children shouldn’t be outed to their parents against their will. School (like home) should be a safe place.

The ‘children are being taught that there are 72 genders’ perfectly mirrors the moral panic of the 1980s that led to Section 28. The ‘war on woke’ is the new ‘pc gone mad’ and echoes exactly the attacks on anti-sexist, anti-racist and sexually diverse education at that time.

Birbalsingh now insisting that 'loads' of teachers have kids in classrooms identifying as pasta.

Sounds like she's blown a fusilli.

Amol Rajan on Radio 4 outlining a brutal criticism of Keir Starmers history of pledges.

Almost every single one that he made - off the back of Jeremy Corbyn - has been abandoned or he's actively trying an opposite direction.

Bold for him to try & come up with new pledges now!

Today marks the anniversary of the Nakba, when 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes.

The Nakba didn't end in 1948. It is an ongoing campaign of ethnic cleansing, violence and occupation.

Our solidarity lives on - we will never give up on the Palestinian people.

Through the sneering, an admission that Jeremy Corbyn is enormously popular & well regarded in his constituency #GMB

Section 28 was finally ended as a result of protest and challenge from LGBT movements. This must happen here.

'Mr Trump's former liar' - what a Freudian slip on @bbcnews!

#BBCNews

Are there any experts in sign language who could help interpret Ms Keegan’s presentation?

Great 🧵Section 28 didn't come out of nowhere. It was an attempt by conservatives to stigmatise LGBT lifestyles which were growing in visibility in the mid-80s. Now Tories are trying the same tactic to put a target on the back of the trans community ahead of the election

Basically it sounds to me like the Tory government want to ban LGBT+ people in the civil service.

She has absolutely no idea what she is talking about. Total waffle

I want to repeat again among all this trans hysteria: WHAT EXACTLY HAVE TRANS PEOPLE DONE WRONG? Has there been a trans crime wave, a trans Wimbledon winner, a trans terrorist attack? Some kind of atrocity must have happened in the last 4 yrs to provoke law changes - yes?

After introduction of a new #trans #Section28 I told Big Issue

“A barrage of attacks on #trans people, led by the very minister tasked with protecting them, has all but obliterated their ability to go about their day to day lives with any sense of safety'
bigissue.com/news/social-ju…

Been reading a fascinating German conversation by women who have left the (their words) GC Cult/Sect .

Some quotes below., but particularly telling:

“I acted out of very misunderstood empathy. I overestimated their suffering and underestimated that of trans people@.

Dominic Sandbrook, in the Sunday Times, dismissed my whole book as the nagging of an inconveniently female historian. But if you can tell the difference between historical analysis and “telling people off”, the paperback comes out today.

penguin.co.uk/books/442125/i…

This is what Gender Critical feminism has led to

We know *exactly* how much pain and suffering s28 caused. To consider subjecting trans and gender questioning children to the same state mandated isolation and oppression throughout their schooling is just unforgivable.

VERY interesting that the The Guardian is being very coy in its reporting the new “Section 28” for trans children.

This is because it is in part responsible - through its transphobic & trans-exclusionary editorial policies - for this situation arising…