If you’re gender critical…

It's really difficult.

The issues I care deeply about include women's rights but also drug policy, the environment, community, Palestine. Other issues too but the issues mentioned are particularly polarising and all often willfully misreported on by biased media (left wing or right wing depending on the issue).

I am a socialist but currently no one party represents all my views.

In a general election I would vote to keep Reform out. But if you're going to criticise women for caring about women's rights you might as well criticise the Green party for taking votes from Labour.

No not the most important, but one of the more important.
I wouldn’t vote for a party that insist TWAW and fail to say they support women’s rights, which rules out labour, green, Lib Dem and Plaid Cymru for me in Wales.
Unless one of the above sort themselves out for the next GE I will probably vote conservative

It pisses me off that this is the case, the whole idea should never have been entertained.

Totally this! The suggestion that humans can change sex or that men who say they are women should be given access to female spaces should have been laid to rest right at the start with a resounding, "You're just being silly." And yet here we are.

I am a left-wing GC feminist and will be voting reform.

Labour (traditionally my party) are not for realists or working people. They're now the party of hypocrites IMO, and represent people in Brighton, London and Edinburgh who are not impacted by the real life consequences of immigration and the trans movement. People who "support the NHS" but go private when waitlists are too long, people who "hate the nasty party" but are next in line for a juicy inheritance, people who "deplore rhe housing crisis" but got a huge deposit from mum and dad.

It is so depressing.

I'm gender critical but would never vote Reform. Tories are the only party that knows what a woman is.

I'm GC but will vote Labour, as I always have. Reform for me is obviously a rocky horror shit show and they'd have to hold a gun to my head to vote Tory. Anyone who thinks the Tories will be "good for women" needs to read the not very distant history books.

Reform aren't gender critical, they just hate trans people more than they hate women.
If there actually was a gender critical party, I might consider voting for them, or if my potential MP was gender critical (and, say, Tory) then I might consider it.

When will it be time to centre the 50%?

I feel that for my entire adult life I’ve been hearing “in the fullness of time” when it comes to women’s issues, especially from the Left Bros and Labour alone consistently fails to elect women for the top positions.

This was a real struggle for me living in Scotland, at the recent Scottish Parliament elections.

I voted LibDem for decades but stopped when they went into coalition with Cameron's Tories and have since voted SNP. The SNP however, now have a diabolical record on putting trans women above actual women and for the first time ever I considered not voting at all, as all the centre/left of centre parties that I could possibly support are all pro increasing trans rights. I had spent my DDs childhoods lecturing them on the importance of women voting and felt because of this, not voting wasn't an option for me.

I decided to write a balance sheet of the pros and cons of the SNP. I considered among other things - the free university education both my DDs benefitted from, free prescriptions, free bus travel for over 60s, free dental check ups and eye tests. These are all things the SNP are responsible for and which I heartily approve of. Against this was their pro trans agenda. I decided that however gender critical my views are, that I was prepared, on balance to continue to support a party that had brought in some genuinely progressive polices.

So yes the bigger picture politically outweighed my gender critical beliefs. I think to vote purely on a party's trans rights views would be very blinkered. In the UK that would leave you only really able to vote for Reform (possibly the Tories) and hell will freeze over before I'd be doing that!

Because the left in academia gave up on class analysis and dissolved into identity politics. It filled journals with new content with a firm nod the favoured French post modernists.

And then we have had two generations of uni students on pathways to middle management, human resources, unions and politics fed through the system spewing out twaw to earn their left stripes and place within the establishment.

None of the major parties are realistically going to do anything groundbreaking with the NHS, the economy or foreign policy. It'll be relatively minor tweaks.

A party's position on women's rights can, within a short space of time, have a massive impact on people. So yes, it's a primary consideration.

No - none of them bar Reform and that weird Rupert Lowe party are GC.

i have to accept that our politicians have been captured and look at the rest of what they say / do.

I’m undecided who I will vote for, but I know full well who I will not support - any politician who believes TWAW. Never ever.

This is the way I feel. Politically homeless.

This is me! I don’t understand how ‘the left’ decided men who wear dresses are more important than actual women

It's an issue I take into account but not top priority.

I would never in a million years vote Reform. I'm most likely to vote conservative since my views are centrist but whilst in many ways I would align with the lib dems, their position on gender is an issue for me.

I'm GC and I'd rather spoil my ballot than vote Reform or any other right-wing party.

My Labour MP has been very on-the-fence on the question of trans and women's rights neither committing to or rejecting either side. I suspect that she's secretly GC but without the moral fibre to stand up for what's right in case that damages her political future.

I tend to research the minor parties and independent candidates who don't have a hope of ever winning, and vote for whichever one of those has views closest to my own.

Also, there's a different between being Gender Critical and being a Sexist Bastard. Reform are Sexist Bastards - they know what a woman is specifically and biologically defined and they want men to have free rein to discriminate against, exploit and abuse women as sub-humans. Gender Critical is not just about upholding that peole with male and female bodies remain male and female according to their DNA regardless of any gender feelings an individual may have, it's also about upholding equality and fairness for all individuals and full human rights for all, being clear that the reason that accommodations for people with female bodies are reserved only for people with female bodies is not about a lack of inclusivity but because the existence of such accommodations is solely about equalising a disadvantage that exists only for people with female bodies and does not exist for for people with male bodies but feminine genderfeels. Reform are nowhere near to holding this view.

Reform are not the only party to believe that women are a sex class. I think the Conservatives, under Kemi Badenoch, have been strong on this.

Will never vote Reform. My GC views don’t make me want to align with people who talk about melting black people down to fill potholes or using Nazi symbolism. I struggle with who to vote for though.

Gender ideology is really dangerous for everyone, but especially for women, children and those who are autistic. It’s an important issue to me and will impact my vote. It pisses me off that this is the case, the whole idea should never have been entertained. Biology and DNA are fact, we split things like toilets, prisons, sports etc based on sex, for fairness, dignity and privacy and that should not be up for discussion, ever!

Saw this just now and thought of this thread

Reform are not gender critical. Kemi is. She will get my vote.

No, it's everything as a whole. But if a politician is willing to openly lie about an observable fact that has been ruled as such in the Supreme Court in order to appease a vocal minority, it does make me wonder what else they are lying about, or willing to lie about, in order to get votes (Looking at you, Nick Clegg...)

Lots of logical fallacies in that OP.

As a PP has explained, Reform aren't gender critical.

And I also sense a bit of a false dichotomy. On one hand, we are gender critical, but on the other hand the foreign, NHS and economic policies of non-GC parties are so successful they give us other compelling reasons to vote for them?

MNers on here were told that in 2024 we should 'hold our nose' and vote Labour and their positive impact on the nation's health, wealth and international standing will compensate for their TWAW ideology - and anyway once they are in power they will listen to sensible GC women and apply the EA 2010 anyway.

If Labour had brought us the economic growth and NHS leadership they promised, it might be more of a compelling argument. As a left wing GC feminist who would never vote Reform, I'm not really seeing the dilemma.