Completed the consultation- have YOU?

I did mine last week...but daughter and 7year old grans-daughter did one too. Actually a good exercise for my Gdd (who has been a little unhappy at school 'because most of the girls just want to be pretty and sassy'...so my daughter felt it was pertinent to include the thoughts of a young girl since children are under extreme pressure. The systemic failure of social policy, housing, employment, environmental threat and education has somehow been swept aside under a welter of personal labels, definitions and horrible attempt to diminish children's anxieties and distress as individual mental health issues. I call BS.

Just finished, took flipping ages. Something up with the website.....

The website has sped-up and I have finally ben able to submit mine - yay

Done .. I can't believe any primary school children would be motivated enough to complete the survey .. it's very long !! But glad to add my opinion too

Got there in the end. Some of the sentences were a bit short and snappy. The site was so slow that I didn't feel that I could re-read and edit the whole 20 odd pages again.

It's submitted and I've written about my concerns and the glaring problems inherent in the process.

Good luck to all who are submitting tomorrow. Which is now today!

OMG that was painful. I would really like to have gone back through it and refined my response but it has taken me all evening to get to the last 3 questions having started it weeks ago and then stalled when I realised that I think the 2004 Act should be repealed. Finally started filling in the rest this afternoon.

Did feel like a bit of a rant by the end though! I've included my name and said it could all be published. I stand by everything I've said but my name is distinctive so I'm hoping it won't come back to bite me.

Done, Jesus, that was like pulling teeth it was so slow earlier this evening and it lost my last really long last answer earlier this week. Been trying to get back on it for 2 days, but the pages would not load.

Done, Done, Done !!

@Beesandfrogsandfleas - children
too? Hmm maybe my DC's will be filling it in tomorrow then!

Done yesterday using the FPFW info as guidance.

Trying to but the site is on a go slow.

Ooh. 11pm tomorrow? I think I'm going to be brave tomorrow and spread the word about the fast submission. Nothing ventured and all that.

Yes Nora it will be - they even accept submissions from children it's not restricted

DH and I both did the FPFW quick submission. PIL are doing it tonight as are a few friends (and one son!).

Submitted mine a few days ago - took 4 hours for detailed submission - FPFW's guide was fantastic as a starter for ten and I added a lot of contemporary evidence like the Supreme Court's recent ruling, KW and rape of female prisoners and so on.

I'm based in the Republic of Ireland. Is there any point in putting in a submission? Would it be accepted from a foreign country?

Done! Only took about 3 days

I did it at about 11.30 pm yesterday. It was running ok then. I didn't put very much but every no or yes will get counted

I did mine today. It was sooo slow. I only hope it means lots of enraged women putting their two penn'orth in.

My replies got a bit repetitive. There was a lot of "stop conflating sex and gender" and "women don't have penises".

I'm going to try a bit later and
Hopefully won't be so slow. I've sent to 6 other people - though I was a bit nervous about doing so.

Done not as articulate as I would like but I was getting b ogged down at the end. It feels like I have just finished my homework

Sorry yes, 11pm tomorrow night, says at the top here

www.gov.uk/government/consultations/reform-of-the-gender-recognition-act-2004

I'll keep going anyway, want to get it done, not sure about the quality of my responses, and think I'm repeating myself, but...

I had got up to question 12 (I think) An hour ago I clicked on my email link to resume and it's taken me all that time to get back to where I was because the pages... load... SO... SLOWLY. (Please don't tell me if there was a 'go to' box, because if there was I didn't see it.)

I emailed to complain. I haven't got time for this! (literally - got to pick dd up in a min.)

If it won't load for you and you're getting desperate...
you can email your responses to [email protected]
Remember to include your name, address and phone number.
The questions are listed on the FairPlay for Women site.
fairplayforwomen.com/how-to/
Plus of course the superfast version that's you just email away.

Oh god, it's ridiculously slow, aaaagh!

But I will persevere. Filling in the whole thing myself thanks to everything I've learnt in the past few weeks from Mumsnet!

There’s probably a smoking server somewhere after the last couple of days’ more balanced coverage.