I ALWAYS stick up for MNHQ because I am so grateful to have this site despite the increasingly hard-to-navigate rules... but genuinely, fucksake!!!
This is utter bullshit and smacks of MNHQ doing their own internal management and wanting to publicly stage manage FWR users.
Politicians can and should be asked about anything and everything- there are a multitude of concerns that voters have. (Even the female ones and the ones of those who have birthed children )
I have been here before with politicians not wanting to speak their views on abortion and other women’s rights issues. They need to understand: If hateful fuckwits pile on the politician for not agreeing with their cultish thinking, well those fuckwits wouldn’t have been voting for that politician anyway. Nothing has been lost to the politician by speaking out. Possibly they will gain from it. Other voters will also see that angry reaction and the deeply suspect arguments that support it and they will instinctively want to support the politician for taking a moral stand against bullshit. In this case, in support of women: preserving their single sex spaces and opportunities, and supporting the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults against an ideology that could see them making permanent changes that they could bitterly regret later (and then be ostracised If they voice their pain at what has happened). Sunlight and fresh air and public scrutiny on all this is a GOOD thing. It may have political advantages.
This makes me very suspicious that politicians are being ‘tempted’ to do a MNHQ webchat not because MNers are seen as rational voters like anyone else but because we are expected to be nonchallenging and nurturing or some other shit. I mean why do they think a webchat with women/mothers is going to go a certain way and should be ‘managed’ for them?
Also, politicians doing media interviews don’t usually get to see the questions in advance- so if MN is ‘known’ for asking some tough questions- around access to childcare, education, healthcare support for our disabled children, Brexit, international relations -or how the gender identity cult is harming women- then this should be easy for them! They can have a good think about it all in advance like they have to with everything else.
If gender issues are becoming an issue at booking politicians in, then it must be that they don’t want to show their hand because it’s a controversial issue which the politicians would rather avoid. If so that is infuriating. it’s not a question that women have the option to duck.
I wish I could have said ‘oh no that’s too controversial’ and avoided it when my workplace allowed men in the women’s toilets which was degrading (but just one of the sexist things they did). I left the job.
I have gender non conforming young people that I care about, who are getting sucked into this cultish shite because they are probably lesbian and are struggling to deal with that and the onset of puberty and all the sexualised expectations placed on them by our pornified society. Their anxious parents are finding they can access very little professional support. Those parents and kids can’t say ‘oh no not touching that issue’.
I am a parent and volunteer for schools and am going to have to challenge them on their policies which confuse gender with sex deliberately all over the place because highly paid Stonelaw types have misled and lobbied them to the detriment of safeguarding. Parents have (rightly) campaigned for compulsory sex and relationship education for years and now we have it, we find it’s promoting a regressive sexist idealogy as well. Parents can’t just avoid the issue and hope that schools will teach their kids something sensible. They won’t.
I’m in another job where I feel I can’t say what I think about this. Right now a woman (Maya Forstater) is currently appealing a decision that says it’s OK not to give her paid work because she doesn’t believe that humans can actually change sex.. She didn't have the option to dodge that question and she’s now having to dedicate her energy to fighting a legal case for a second time..
All the detransitioned young people who are growing in number and still have no dedicated services and support or even acknowledgement by the NHS and private doctors that they took them through permanent changes that they couldn’t have genuinely consented to. They can’t duck these issues.
And we still can’t ask too many questions about all this on a sodding web chat?!! Jesus wept.