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Due to see MP about GRA/women's rights. Any advice?

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Stickerladiesoftheworldunite · 15/08/2018 10:29

I'm due to see my female MP soon. I intend to focus on the GRA consultation and my concerns about enabling any male who self ids as a woman into women's spaces.

I also want to add my concerns about my son's school being a Stonewall.Champion school and my wider concerns around young people and this trend, about what's being taught in local schools regarding sex and gender.

I'm trying to stick to those points and relate national concerns to the MP's constiuency.

I need to be ready for any typical counter arguments and responses.

I've played devil's advocate below and would like some succinct water tight answers (and evidence) to support my answers. I do have answers, but they may not be as eloquant as some on here.

What do I actually want my MP to do about my concerns? What can they do?

What about the small number transsexuals who have had full surgery? Shouldn't they be able to use wcs?

Why can't we simply share facilities? Why take away from trans rights? (I recall somebody wrote a good analogy of a small cake being divided up.- saying women's cake wasn't that big to begin with after we fought for single sex spaces).

Do I 'object' to trans men using men's toilets?

And any other salient points I should mention.

Thanks

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Jozxyqk · 15/08/2018 11:15

This thread is worth a look.

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Stickerladiesoftheworldunite · 15/08/2018 11:09

Thank you both. The video is helpful.
Charlie - agree. I want to talk about women's rights without being brandished as something else.

Wondering if I should bring up Jess Bradley/Gregor Murray/BBC reporting on prisons/attacks in prisons /Labour's so called women's officer.

Should I mention Ann Sinnot's resignation as an example of a female politican with ethics who has said no to this bullshit?

My MP is tory for what it's worth. It makes me nervous that Baroness Williams and the speaker are such raging opponents of women's rights. Oh and that Penny believes TWAW.

I was incensed especially by Williams' recent comments and just hope there are decent women politicans like Ann out there, regardless of political persuasion.

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Charliethefeminist · 15/08/2018 10:45

That is one of the bits that I find most distressing and I thought I'd better focus because I only had ten minutes.

Charliethefeminist · 15/08/2018 10:44

I talked about the homophobia of trans ideology. I said I wanted my kids to grow up feeling they could be whatever they like without being told they were bigoted or need to change sex and be sterilised.

R0wantrees · 15/08/2018 10:34

There's a recent video here by Posie Parker describing how a meeting with MP went.

Its worth watching.

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Stickerladiesoftheworldunite · 15/08/2018 10:32

I'm not new - previously Cartertheunstoppablesexmachine/indierockandroll/thebiologicalwoman (and a regular MNetter of 13 yrs before peak trans).

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