Fair Play For Women meeting MPs at House of Common on 16th October

[DoctorW]

In fact even better than that, Woman's Place UK and Transgender Trend will be going too.

I (Nicola Williams) will be one of the three women attending in order to answer MP’s questions about how proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act will affect women’s rights.

Womans Place UK and Fair Play For Women have both requested to meet with Penny Mordaunt, Minister for Women and Equalities, to represent the concerns and questions of the thousands of women who support us, but have not been granted a meeting.

So, we are taking the meeting to the House of Commons to give Penny Mordaunt, and all MPs, the opportunity to meet us, ask questions and hear our views. All they need to do is drop in and meet us. This is the opportunity for MPs to hear the voices of women concerned by these changes and to increase their knowledge about this subject in a calm, confidential environment.

Every MP has received a formal invitation for this meeting but we need YOU to make sure they come. Please email your constituency MP telling them that you support us and ask them to confirm to you that they will attend this meeting.

You can find your MPs details here www.writetothem.com/
Email them this weekend before their diaries get filled. The meeting is just 10 days from now.

Meeting: How will changes to the Gender Recognition Act affect women’s rights? Tuesday 16th October 2018 at 10:30am until 12:30pm in Room S, House of Commons

[FemmeFatalist]

Excellent! I am meeting my MP next week so I will ask him if he's going.

[Gentlygently]

Seriously? The minister for women has refused to meet you? That is truly shocking. Has John McDonnell met you like he said he would?

[peepholepringle]

This is fantastic.
Thank you for everything you are all doing for Women and girls.

[ChrysanthemumsAreMums]

Done it. Excellent news

Please, everyone, do it!

[Goldenbuzzer]

I’ve asked my mother to attend so that he can feedback how useful it was and so he is up to date with current issues before he meets me in the near future. Is there anyway if finding out which mps attended so I can see if he actually went.

Thanks for holding this meeting.

[ChrysanthemumsAreMums]

Would it be a good idea to link to Fairplay for women's recent publication on the impact of self ID on domestic abuse victims in our letters?

fairplayforwomen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FPFW_report_19SEPT2018.pdf


And any other links?

[ChrysanthemumsAreMums]

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[Ooforfoxsakeridesagain]

Thank you, I will.

[happydappy2]

Have emailed my MP, Marsha De Cova, but how will we know which MPs actually attend? Good luck Nicola, it would be great to have a transcript of the meeting.

[Mumfun]

Emailed my MP :)

[Redkeyboard]

Yes Chrysanthemum although I would pick maybe one key point, eg the report.

I have forwarded the report to my MP and asked them to forward on my letter and ask her what she is doing to get these voices heard in parliament and how she thinks a consultation can operate in such a climate.

Excellent news about the meeting. I will write to my MP about this too and also ask them to forward on to Penny Mordaunt and ask whether she will be attending and if not when she will be speaking to these groups who represent and give a shit about the rights of women and children - ie not Stonewall who have openly acknowledged on the radio that they won’t even consider the impact on these.

[Redkeyboard]

Forward on letter to Penny Mordaunt as Minister for women that should say.

[SuburbanRhonda]

My MP is Phillip Hammond.

Going to ask him anyway.

[Moominfan]

I will forward to my mp Mark Hendricks

[ChrysanthemumsAreMums]

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[AdultHumanCat]

I've emailed my MP.

[SomeEnchantedEaring]

I've just emailed my MP (female with very slim majority) also. I have already written to her so she knows my concerns, but no reply as yet.

[HawkeyeInConfusion]

I have written to my MP. She knows I have concerns in this area. Despite that I hold out little hope that she will dare defy the party leadership and attend.

[Datun]

Done.

[CriticalCondition]

Done.

[9years]

Done

[FlowerpotFairyHouse]

Done.

[RogerAllamsFangirl]

Have emailed my MP