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muriel_volestrangler

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6. From the devoid-of-empathy Patel to the batshit-crazy Braverman at the Home Office
Mon Sep 5, 2022, 06:20 AM
Sep 2022

and if that list is accurate, she won't even take advantage of the change to chuck out the Johnson fanatics Dorries and Rees-Mogg.

Braverman is particularly anti-transgender:

Braverman claimed in a speech before the Policy Exchange thinktank on Wednesday (10 August) that schools could be “indoctrinating children” by allowing them to live as their authentic selves after coming out as trans.

She claimed these “misinformed” schools and teachers are “socially transitioning” kids, using the anti-trans dog-whistle that supportive adults are ‘grooming’ children by affirming their identity.
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“In my view, a primary school where they are teaching eight or nine-year-old pupils – year four children – key words such as transgender, pansexual, asexual, gender expression, intersex, genderfluid, gender dysphoria, questioning or queer would be falling foul of government guidance nor is it age-appropriate to teach four-year-olds that people can change sex or gender,” she said.
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Elsewhere in her speech, Suella Braverman – the government’s chief legal adviser – claimed there was a “serious risk that the fight for rights undermines democracy”, saying the UK now has a “rights culture”.

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/08/11/suella-braverman-attorney-general-lgbtq-schools-trans-section-29/

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We are fucked [View all] Soph0571 Sep 2022 OP
Disgusting! IrishAfricanAmerican Sep 2022 #1
Sounds awful. Kath2 Sep 2022 #2
So sorry to hear that, I had hoped for better. MLAA Sep 2022 #3
... alwaysinasnit Sep 2022 #4
Rees-Mogg at Business for extra spice Celerity Sep 2022 #5
From the devoid-of-empathy Patel to the batshit-crazy Braverman at the Home Office muriel_volestrangler Sep 2022 #6
I was glad that at least Patel is resigning... LeftishBrit Sep 2022 #7
At last, a silver lining - Dorries is quitting, and I don't think they can find anyone worse muriel_volestrangler Sep 2022 #9
One of the big right wing causes right now... T_i_B Sep 2022 #10
Michelle Donelan at DCMS muriel_volestrangler Sep 2022 #12
I'm so sorry, sounds like Boris in a dress Cosmo Blues Sep 2022 #8
Disgusting. geardaddy Sep 2022 #11
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