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HoL debate on Monday 24th Feb on communal changing and toilet facilities

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MrsSnippyPants · 17/02/2020 12:57

From comments under one of the Times articles (Labour leadership candidates)
Lord Lucas has a debate next Monday in the House of Lords:
"Ensuring that at least half of the communal changing or toilet facilities in public buildings are reserved for women only"

HoL debate on Monday 24th Feb on communal changing and toilet facilities
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Languishingfemale · 17/02/2020 15:27

If I recall rightly there are some very powerful misogynistic left wing gay men in the HoL who have no truck with women's rights and children's safety? I'm sure they'll be all over this.

Kit19 · 17/02/2020 15:23

if women includes men who self ID its always a circular argument...no matter what spaces are reserved for women, if men can self ID then there are no female only spaces and so we go on....

though having had a quick look through his comments in the Lords he does seem to at least get some of the issues

FebruaryRainandSleet · 17/02/2020 14:50

He's also retweeted this:
White people shouldn’t decide what constitutes racism.
Straight people shouldn’t decide what homophobia is.
Cisgender people shouldn’t decide what transphobia is.

How about 'men shouldn't decide what women are'?

mindtheclegs · 17/02/2020 13:59

Me too refuse, pretty much the same.

Fingers crossed (and I hope he doesn't get too much of a battering on Twitter!).

refusetobeasheep · 17/02/2020 13:52

Thanks - I have emailed him thanking him for bringing up the debate and asking him to ensure that the definition of "women" is clearly understood to be those born female at birth.

NotMyFIrstTIme · 17/02/2020 13:44

I see he's just retweeted Bea Jaspert - the link to an article she's just published.

Labour's Betrayal of Women Children & Homosexuals medium.com/@BeaJaspert/labours-betrayal-of-women-children-and-homosexuals-90c724c1c0d0

I think we can be hopeful :)

mindtheclegs · 17/02/2020 13:40

House of Lords
London
SW1A 0PW
Phone: 020 7219 4177
Email: [email protected]
Twitter
twitter.com/LordLucasCD

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MrsSnippyPants · 17/02/2020 13:09

Can we contact him and give our input?

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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 17/02/2020 12:59

Ah, but how is women defined...

CaptainKirksSpikeyGhost · 17/02/2020 12:58

Which is usless if Woman doesn't actually mean woman.