Anti-Trans Tory MP Miriam Cates Doesn’t Want Kids To Change Gender At School
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Miriam Cates, a Tory MP known for her anti-trans rhetoric, said it was “a good thing for children not to change gender in school”.
Cates gave an interview with the Telegraph on Saturday (May 27) in which she was described as “desperate” that school reforms around sex education and gender counseling be “done and done”.
The Penistone and Stocksbridge MP joined Labor MP Rosie Duffield in April to oppose trans rights, arguing that women’s rights were being “secretly wiped out” by a “small group of extremist activists”. who want to “silence” women.
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In January, Cates linked trans people with predators in a speech in the House of Commons in which she criticised Scotland’s monumental gender recognition reform bill. The bill was later blocked by the UK government in an unprecedented use of a Section 35 injunction.
According to ‘UK Daily News’, Cates claimed the bill would make it “much easier for a predator to gain access to children” and claimed it would have a “deterrent effect” on same-sex spaces. She also claimed that she had multiple experiences with trans people in the toilet, stating that “women are far less powerful than men… we can’t fight back.”
Her speech was criticised as a “disgusting” and “dog whistle” attack on the trans community.
In her interview with the Telegraph, Cates described her alliance with Duffield – the Labor MP for Canterbury who previously targeted Suzy Eddie Izzard when speaking at a trans-exclusionary LGB Alliance conference – as a “beautiful thing”.
“It’s a beautiful thing to be able to make alliances,” Cates said. “It’s an issue that should go beyond partisan politics, a security issue that affects every woman and potentially every child.”
The Tory MP then hailed Duffield as “incredibly brave”.
Cates then suggested that Labor leader Keir Starmer is “at the mercy of a very powerful group within his party that is totally dependent on the trans lobby”. She said: “It really worries me what will happen when Labor comes to power.”
This comes despite Starmer being harshly criticised in an April interview with the Sunday Times for his disappointing comments on trans rights and for “throwing trans people under the bus,” where he appeared to back calls for schools to Outing students to their parents. .
Referring to new Tory guidelines for schools, which will reportedly require teachers to “out” trans, non-binary and gender-nonconforming students to their parents and ban trans children from using gender-identical changing and shower facilities Cates said she wanted the reforms to be “complete and done” before 2024.
The evangelical Christian MP went on to commend the growing opposition from right-wing MPs to inclusive sex education and schools as safe places for trans and non-binary students to be their authentic selves.
“I think we pushed the public debate forward so that the vast majority can see that it’s good for parents to know what their children are being taught. It’s good if kids don’t change gender in school, then it will be like that. “It’s going to be much harder for every new government to fight that,” she said.
Cates also claimed that her Christian faith is a motivating force behind her politics: “Doing what is right is more important than doing what is expedient.” When you believe in a power higher than you, you are motivated to do it what you think is right and not what is currently beneficial.
“And it makes it easier to deal with the flak that inevitably comes.”
The Department of Education’s forthcoming guidance on schools, which Education Secretary Gillian Keegan and Equality Secretary Kemi Badenoch are reportedly working on, has been described by horrified teachers as “protecting Tory interests” rather than protecting children.
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