A Labour MP has compared being in her party to enduring an abusive relationship, after being jeered by male colleagues in the House of Commons and then being ignored by the leadership.
Rosie Duffield announced in a dramatic manner that the opposition had a problem with women and admitting she would struggle to convince people it was not sexist.
She stated that she was shunned by the party hierarchy, including party leader Sir Keir Starmer, for her views on women’s rights, comparing it to the treatment she had from a dominating ex-partner.
Her scathing remarks may raise new public concerns about Labour after the party backed Scotland’s contentious self-identification laws for transgender people and senior leaders argued that even 13-year-olds should be permitted to change sexe.
Rosie Duffield (pictured) announced in a dramatic manner that the opposition had a problem with women and said she would find it difficult to convince people that it was not sexist.
She claimed she was shunned by the party hierarchy, including party leader Sir Keir Starmer (pictured), for her views on women’s rights, comparing it to the abuse she received from a controlling ex-partner.
It follows the revelation by the Mail that three party backbenchers attended a protest alongside a trans rights campaigner who served 30 years in jail for attempted murder and kidnapping.
Miss Duffield has long been Labour’s most strident advocate of women’s rights and most loud critic of gender ideology. However, she has gone further than ever before in her most recent comments in response to the ‘violence’ she got this week from her fellow MPs.
She said on the Unherd website, “I was defending the need to protect vulnerable women in single-sex spaces and had just criticized Scotland’s Gender Reform Bill when Ben Bradshaw yelled his disapproval at me.”
Lloyd Russell-Moyle, who was seated close, became red, which was maybe less shocking, and began to heckle every lady who had similar worries.
She described how Mr. Russell-Moyle, who stood next to transgender ex-convict Sarah-Jane Baker at this week’s Downing Street demonstration but said he was unaware of her violent past, then proceeded to sit next to another female MP and intimidatingly gazed at her.
In addition, she stated that his later admission that he “failed to control his passion” reminded her of the victim-blaming strategy employed by her violent ex-boyfriend.
She added, “My ex-partner would say, “Look what you made me do,” when I caused him to explode by doing or wearing something he didn’t like or by expressing an opinion he didn’t want to hear.”
However, following the ‘outburst,’ Sir Keir’s office fell into’silence,’ while party whips’reprimanded’ her for missing a routine committee meeting.
Miss Duffield emphasized that she is not the only Labour MP who believes that men cannot become women, but that the others will not say so “outside of closed rooms or private and secret WhatsApp groups” for fear of receiving the same reaction she has.
Her scathing remarks will raise additional public concerns about Labour after the party backed Scotland’s contentious self-identification changes for transgender people and some prominent members indicated that even 13-year-olds should be permitted to change sex.
She stated that while the party’s frontbench includes a Tory defector and others who have defended Jeremy Corbyn’s antisemitism, there are no shadow ministers who “believe that biological sex cannot be erased with the stroke of a pen.”
She asked, “Is it becoming apparent that Labour has a problem with women?” and explained that it had been apparent for feminist and lesbian activists who were denied stalls at the party conference and anti-violence campaigners, as well as for herself, who had been “ostracized.”
Miss Duffield, who in 2019 received a standing ovation in the House of Commons for describing her experience as a victim of coercive control, described how perpetrators of domestic violence will “go silent for days on end” and “turn their back on you.”
She continued, ‘Trust me when I say I don’t take this lightly, but after six years of being shunned by the Labour Party, I am reminded of how I felt in that violent relationship.’
She stated that her political party did not seem like home, despite her insistence that she would not defect, and concluded: ‘In 2019, it was difficult enough to convince my constituents that Labour was not antisemitic.
“At the next election, when they will inevitably ask if Labour is sexist, I’m not sure I’ll be able to answer the same way.”
Labor has been reached out to for comment
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