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To think Keir Starner is ignoring women and children’s rights?

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Greengablesfables · 16/05/2024 17:58

Hello hello? Kier? We’re here. We are right here. We are Women. Are you listening to us? Hello? Hello?

To think Keir Starner is ignoring women and children’s rights?
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Tootiredforallthiscrap · 17/05/2024 09:23

Well I guess it’s better than anti immigration crap 😂
Most folk hopefully will be pragmatic. They think the gender stuff has gone too far but other things have a greater bearing on their everyday lives like the NHS and state education and public transport. I don’t live in London, my town is falling apart, it’s a shadow of its former self compared to 14 years ago. We have 2 Tory MPs who’ve done bugger all. Most will be more bothered about that at the same time as not agreeing that young children should get puberty blockers. For the privileged few who have nothing else to worry about it can be an overriding passion but for most of us not so much. Still think the tories’s record is abysmal and won’t vote for them.

JerseyRoyals · 17/05/2024 09:16

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yeah. The threads where women on MN point out that biology matters. Sorry if that bores you.

EasternStandard · 17/05/2024 09:16

ilovesooty · 17/05/2024 09:06

Please don't tell me and other posters what I should read or respond to.

You wouldn't be trying to shut us up would you? 🤔

What is the main point of your posts? Stop going on about this issue or…?

EasternStandard · 17/05/2024 09:13

L1ttledrummergirl · 17/05/2024 09:09

I think you'll find I don't rail against it. There is more to speaking out and bringing about change than watering down the argument by posting the same old shit on mumsnet.

Mn has been pretty good actually at providing a place for women to speak up. The internet is fairly misogynistic when it comes to this stuff.

Obviously there’s anger on here at it existing but mnhq have been good.

Tf there’s somewhere

O2AreAShowerofShite · 17/05/2024 09:12

BIossomtoes · 17/05/2024 08:44

Where are your links to support your assertion that

Starmer has been in approval of unregulated life-alterating medical experiments on children, and in favour of stripping women of the right to equality in the workplace and sports, and happy to put women at risk in prisons and changing rooms.

Does burden of proof only operate in one direction?

Of course not, but it’s silly to ask for proof as if you haven’t read a newspaper, listened to the radio or a podcast or watched TV for 8 years. Just tune in.

Everyone knows that Labour’s been in thrall to gender-woo for years, they’ve been very open about it. Just to make you happy, I will reference Starmer saying ‘it’s not right’ to say that only women have cervixes’. There’s also his treatment of Rosie Duffield.

I could go on, there’s no shortage of this rubbish, but I have work to do and frankly, it’s not something that anyone needs to prove, anymore than they need to prove it often rains in the UK. Nobody needs to prove the bleeding obvious, it’s those who are trying to rewrite history, like yourself, who need to do that.

Your call for proof is either wildly naive or a mendacious attempt to get out of providing your own proof, as you know full well that you can’t. Nobody is fooled, we see you!

ilovesooty · 17/05/2024 09:10

EasternStandard · 17/05/2024 09:09

Read it or don’t you’re all supposedly having it ‘rammed’ or made to read it for some reason. If people are sick of constantly seeing it well there’s an easy way to deal with that via the site

Do whatever 🤷‍♀️

Do whatever

I will, thanks.

L1ttledrummergirl · 17/05/2024 09:09

EasternStandard · 17/05/2024 08:51

I can see why you don’t want it mentioned, it shows that women have effected change.

Something you rail against.

I think you'll find I don't rail against it. There is more to speaking out and bringing about change than watering down the argument by posting the same old shit on mumsnet.

EasternStandard · 17/05/2024 09:09

Read it or don’t you’re all supposedly having it ‘rammed’ or made to read it for some reason. If people are sick of constantly seeing it well there’s an easy way to deal with that via the site

Do whatever 🤷‍♀️

ilovesooty · 17/05/2024 09:08

BIossomtoes · 17/05/2024 09:06

Here we go. It gets personal every time. What about the proposed restriction on abortion? That’s pretty fundamental to women’s rights, isn’t it? Or is that the wrong kind of women’s rights?

Oh I see that well known supporter of women, Andrea Jenkyns, was being very vocal about voting against that last night.

BIossomtoes · 17/05/2024 09:06

EasternStandard · 17/05/2024 09:02

Don’t read it then 🤷‍♀️ you’re here every time

You're also more obsessed with ‘toilets’

Have you ever started a thread on the topic you want to discuss? or more about having a go on these ones

Here we go. It gets personal every time. What about the proposed restriction on abortion? That’s pretty fundamental to women’s rights, isn’t it? Or is that the wrong kind of women’s rights?

ilovesooty · 17/05/2024 09:06

EasternStandard · 17/05/2024 09:02

Don’t read it then 🤷‍♀️ you’re here every time

You're also more obsessed with ‘toilets’

Have you ever started a thread on the topic you want to discuss? or more about having a go on these ones

Please don't tell me and other posters what I should read or respond to.

You wouldn't be trying to shut us up would you? 🤔

EasternStandard · 17/05/2024 09:02

Don’t read it then 🤷‍♀️ you’re here every time

You're also more obsessed with ‘toilets’

Have you ever started a thread on the topic you want to discuss? or more about having a go on these ones

BIossomtoes · 17/05/2024 09:00

Nobody’s “railing”. The constant narrative about toilets and puberty blockers does get tedious. Surely anyone concerned about women’s rights would be all over the current proposal to change abortion law? The impact of that will be huge if it goes through.

https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3511/stages/18470/amendments/10014840

EasternStandard · 17/05/2024 08:58

It’s interesting when posters say they don’t want Self ID or puberty blockers but have spent their time angry at women speaking up so they can get things changed.

There’s a whole load of people who were angry or threatening, fortunately many women just moved on and kept going. Grateful to all of them

Tootiredforallthiscrap · 17/05/2024 08:52

PrimalLass · 17/05/2024 08:50

That's what we said in 1997.

Well yes like Brexit the British voting public isn’t known for its intelligence or foresight 🙄

EasternStandard · 17/05/2024 08:51

ilovesooty · 17/05/2024 08:46

This obsession with puberty blockers is just a bit repetitive. I can't see many posters, whatever their political leanings, driving support of them.

I can see why you don’t want it mentioned, it shows that women have effected change.

Something you rail against.

PrimalLass · 17/05/2024 08:50

ssd · 16/05/2024 18:15

Good try op. The tories are finished.

That's what we said in 1997.

Marjoriefrobisher · 17/05/2024 08:50

BIossomtoes · 17/05/2024 08:47

You said it.

is that meant to be some kind of accusation? You’re going to have to make it more explicit, if so.

Marjoriefrobisher · 17/05/2024 08:49

Tippexy · 17/05/2024 08:39

Re the son/daughter and ‘stumbling over his words’ discussion.

Linguistically, it will have been an active choice for him to say sons, because of the word ‘two’ preceding it.

i absolutely do not give a shit about starmer’s family situation, but the determination of his fan base to explain away that statement is funny, and revealing.

BIossomtoes · 17/05/2024 08:47

Marjoriefrobisher · 17/05/2024 08:47

More conspiracy theory
the internet has been very bad for some people

You said it.

Marjoriefrobisher · 17/05/2024 08:47

Whenwillitgetwarm · 17/05/2024 07:19

They are not blinkered. They are paid employees of the Tory’s or US backed libertarian lobbyists. They have a clear agenda to create a ‘they’re all the same’ apathy to dampen voting which will help the Tory’s at the next general election.

More conspiracy theory
the internet has been very bad for some people

ilovesooty · 17/05/2024 08:46

EasternStandard · 17/05/2024 07:32

Why is it ‘ramming’ when some click on every thread on a site where it’s optional to read or hide?

The anger from posters at reading something not pro Labour is… a bit idk odd

If women had just done as some would like you’d still have self ID and puberty blockers. Is that really what pp are after

This obsession with puberty blockers is just a bit repetitive. I can't see many posters, whatever their political leanings, driving support of them.

Ofcourseshecan · 17/05/2024 08:45

WrenNatsworthy · 16/05/2024 18:58

Is this another one of those threads where the shills come in and bang on about how amazing the Conservative party are with regard to women?

Sigh.

No, it’s another of these threads where women who have voted Labour (or Green, or even LibDem) all their lives are expressing their desperation at having no one they can vote for now.

Unless I have a Communist or SDP candidate, which is very unlikely, I’ll have no one who will defend women’s and children’s rights.

BIossomtoes · 17/05/2024 08:44

O2AreAShowerofShite · 17/05/2024 08:40

Oh, he’s been vocally challenging the government on this since before the Cass report l, has he?

Calling for only biological women to be allowed into women’s changing rooms and toilets and explicitly stating that trans women should not be in there?

He’s spoken out against the likes of Emily Bridger and Lia Thomas and made it clear that no biological men should be allowed to compete in women’s sports?

He’s been clear that only biological women should make it onto all-women Labour candidate lists?

He’s campaigned against puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for children, has he?

Please provide links to back up your assertions, because I’ve never seen him say or do anything of the sort. There have been lots of weasel words about ‘safe spaces’ rather than single sex spaces and claiming that some women have a penis(!), though.

Where are your links to support your assertion that

Starmer has been in approval of unregulated life-alterating medical experiments on children, and in favour of stripping women of the right to equality in the workplace and sports, and happy to put women at risk in prisons and changing rooms.

Does burden of proof only operate in one direction?

O2AreAShowerofShite · 17/05/2024 08:40

BIossomtoes · 17/05/2024 08:31

it is difficult otherwise to fathom quite why Starmer has been in approval of unregulated life-alterating medical experiments on children, and in favour of stripping women of the right to equality in the workplace and sports, and happy to put women at risk in prisons and changing rooms.

It would be incredibly difficult to fathom if any of it was true. But it’s not.

Oh, he’s been vocally challenging the government on this since before the Cass report l, has he?

Calling for only biological women to be allowed into women’s changing rooms and toilets and explicitly stating that trans women should not be in there?

He’s spoken out against the likes of Emily Bridger and Lia Thomas and made it clear that no biological men should be allowed to compete in women’s sports?

He’s been clear that only biological women should make it onto all-women Labour candidate lists?

He’s campaigned against puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for children, has he?

Please provide links to back up your assertions, because I’ve never seen him say or do anything of the sort. There have been lots of weasel words about ‘safe spaces’ rather than single sex spaces and claiming that some women have a penis(!), though.