Jeremy Corbyn - webchat to discuss self-identification of sex

[Popchyk]

On the Andrew Marr Show today, Jeremy Corbyn indicated that the Labour Party is in favour of a policy of people being able to self-identify as the opposite sex.

Could we get Jeremy Corbyn on Mumsnet to do a webchat in order to discuss the implications around this?

If he is unavailable, could we have another senior Labour figure?

Thank you

[BoreOfWhabylon]

Seconded.

[QOFE]

Yes please.

If he wants to take a position on this he needs to be able to justify it to the women it has implications for.

[Myunicornfliessideways]

Yes please.

[TitaniasCloset]

Yes! Hell yes to this, all the yesses!

[MissBeehiving]

Yes please

[tobee]

That would be great

[SeaWitchly]

Agreed.
I am a pro Corbyn Labour member who voted for him as leader and took an active role in my local CLP via leafleting and doorknocking for Labour in the GE.
I am also a working professional woman and mother in my 40s who is a gender critical TERF.
I believe that transgender people in the Labour Party should have a voice and a platform to raise the issues that are important for them... but TIM are not women and those who do not have a GRC have no place on an AWS.
This is a very important issue for me and I believe for women in general. I cannot say with any certainty that I would still vote for Labour if self Id is brought in. And that is very sad for me to admit as I campaigned hard on the streets and within my own social circle to communicate Labour’s message of hope and social progress.
I believe that JC is a principled and honest politician who truly wants to bring about a more equal society.
I fervently hope that he is also interested in listening with an open mind to feminist concerns... particularly as he cited Mary Wollstonecraft as a political figure he admires.

[Lottapianos]

Yes please. V good idea

[Fekko]

There can’t ‘be equality’ if women are shafted by men with one agenda and one agenda only.

[Bunkai]

This is a brilliant idea.

[LornaMumsnet]

Thanks for flagging this one, Popchyk. We're more than happy to ask about this and see if it's possible. We'll do that and update when we know more.

[Popchyk]

That's brilliant, Lorna. Thanks for your help.

If someone from Labour would do a webchat on here, could it be done before the beginning of March please? Labour has said that it intends to consult with all interested parties before making a further statement in March.

Would be great if this webchat could form part of that consultation.

[QOFE]

I would hope that the users of one of the (if not the very) largest discussion forums for women in the UK would definitely count as an interested party :)

[Biologicalreality]

Yes please

[SchrodingersFrilledLizard]

Thank you, MN. That would be brilliant.

[Myunicornfliessideways]

Thank you Lorna .

[MyBrilliantDisguise]

That's a brilliant idea as long as nobody asks him what kind of biscuits he likes - I want to crawl under the sofa when people do that.

[AuntyElle]

Yes, vital.

[FannyWisdom]

Ask him to stay long enough to drink his brew this time though.

[Popchyk]

If something does come from this, then I would see it as a single-issue webchat. Namely, Labour's policy of allowing people to self-identify as the opposite sex and the implications of that.

That's what they've said what they want to consult on.

[2018username]

Yep! Definitely a single issue chat!

[Heliophilous]

I would also like to see this webchat happen.

[DrStringzDulcimer]

Exactly what @seawitchly wrote. Exactly that.

I put my money where my mouth was for Jeremy Corbyn when the whole world was telling me over and over what a fool I was to have any faith in him.

Jeremy, you owe me this.

[athingthateveryoneneeds]

Absolutely brilliant idea.

[MrsTerryPratchett]

Fifteenth-ed or wherever we are now.

Calm, rational questions about the consequences of self-ID.