The United Kingdom’s Labour Party won a landslide victory in Thursday’s general election, propelling party leader Keir Starmer to the office of Prime Minister and establishing a majority Labour government for the first time in 19 years. But despite general support for LGBTQ+ rights, Starmer’s recent comments about transgender issues raise serious questions about what might come next for trans people in the U.K. In order to ensure Labour’s majority in elections to come, Starmer, a noted centrist, may push Labour further to the right — especially on trans issues, as evidenced by several statements in the lead-up to the election. Starmer’s Labour manifesto includes popular positions like passing a trans-inclusive conversion therapy ban and reforms to the Gender Recognition Certificate process, a requirement for legal transition in the U.K. But when pressed on trans issues like equal access to public facilities, Starmer has taken a much more conservative tone. In late June, Starmer publicly broke with his party’s education spokesperson Bridget Phillipson, telling reporters he would not reverse a Conservative rule banning “gender ideology” from schools, including support for a minor’s social transition. “I’m not in favor of ideology being taught in our schools on gender,” Starmer said.