Conservative landslide - how are we feeling as feminists?

Anyone with a new MP can book an appointment to meet them & discuss their concerns about self ID, rising numbers of girls transitioning etc etc. This is a good opportunity to make sure women are heard.

Nickeladimecandy why?

It's shit, totally predictable, but still utterly shit. There's no way Johnson's government gives a damn about women's rights. Like they don't care about race issues, or disability rights, or helping those in poverty. I can't see it as a good thing.

Hopefully it will mean the Labour party will learn from it in time for the next general election - I'm mostly prepared for more disappointment though.

It's horrendous and depressing. Boris might know that women are defined by their biology, but that doesn't equal respect or value.

Neither Boris or Corbyn respect women or see us as equal. As for Swinson, well. Maybe some key stage 1 biology would help her.

I don't think there was a possible outcome from the election that I could feel positive about.

Relieved. I think Labour’s abillity to analyze these results depends upon whether they can stop externalising their failure and stop insulting millions of voters. I am very pleased Jo Swinson lost her seat. To anyone who spoiled their ballot in that constituency? I think there will be a forensic examination of why she lost and her idiotic position on self ID will be highlighted.

Not RTFT yet but I'm gutted and also feel like this is the beginning of something. Or at least its hopefully the beginning of the end of aggressive brocialism. There's no doubt now that woke cults don't win votes.

But it will be a long, hard 5 years. Especially for women who are going to have to shoulder the burden.

I am mildly hopeful that self ID will be well and truly kicked into the long grass and beyond. There has to be one silver lining?

Agree with other posters that Labour might not "get it". Also agree there's a good chance Boris won't go for austerity.
Laura Kuenssberg mentioned Boris "doing the impossible" several times over: getting London to vote for a Tory mayor, getting Brexit voted for, etc. And now he's turned safe Labour seats into Tory seats. How safe they are depends on whether he keeps them, of course.
And his ego is so colossal, the temptation to be the Great Statesman on Brexit and the Saviour of the North might mean that he actually sticks to centrist One Nation policies.
TL;DR : his ego might save us

Feel the same as you OP. Having Boris as PM is pretty bleak for women in this country.

Good point NeurotrashWarrior
Though I think both parties are liable to fall under the spell of particular charities with little critical examination and give them too much support be it financial or public adulation and freedom to pursue their agenda. I'm thinking of the love affair every politician hoping for a few cheap woke points had with Kids Company. Who started that? I can't remember that far back, it's lost in the mists of time.

I did vote labour but am terribly glad they lost. I like my MP and held my nose and voted for her. (She won)
Need to now keep a keen eye on what everyone is up to..

Relieved but devastated sums it up completely.

Let's hope Boris remembers what he said just now about the quivering hands at the ballot box.

I am pessimistic about Labour getting the message that treating women the way they have will lose votes, because there are so many other things they can blame

True. Brexit, Corbyn, Anti-semitism

Do you seriously think it was self id/gender critical which caused the Labour defeat? That is a tiny issue outside the MN bubble.

As above, looking at the hopeful silver lining that is the influx of new female Tory MPs in WC areas.

Does anyone have a breakdown of the election split by sex rather than party?

I feel relieved that the hard left have proven to be unpopular as I found their brand of politics very authoritarian and misogynistic but cloaked in rainbows and hearts. I’m interested in any new Tory MPs especially female ones and their views.

Extremely depressed at SNP results.

Relieved but devastated about sums it up for me, too.

Hoping that Labour will get the message and try to edge a little closer to the centre - but am already seeing activists on twitter blaming the evil Blairites who brought them down from within/the MSM who smeared lovely Jeremy and didn't cover their 'perfect' manifesto. So not holding my breath there.

Depressed

Relieved. If Boris sticks with his manifesto spending commitments this isn't an austerity government and I am hopeful for public services as well as self ID on the back burner. Disappointed with SNP gains up here but hopeful Indyref 2 with Saint Nicola pushing for self ID is off for now. The need to oppose self ID in Scotland persists

I am pessimistic about Labour getting the message that treating women the way they have will lose votes, because there are so many other things they can blame.

Looking ahead, Labour needs to sort itself out and go back to being a party we can all get behind, so my eyes are going to be on that process.

Tory victory = bad overall for women, one silver lining is that an end to trans madness is more likely.

I think tonight's vote has shown the dangers of listening to twitter and ignoring the vast majority of voters. Hopefully it shows politicians the naivety of trying to implement top down changes that only a minority of loud voices want.

Hope that self ID is off the table, but Tory austerity policies are awful for women so actually scared of what will happen in next 5 years.

They decentralised education so it's a freefor all. It's now affecting museums and other educational providers too.

Relieved that we will now have time to get Self ID permanently off the table. A hung parliament would have been a disaster for that.

I will be doing some serious digging on these new MPs.