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Personally I don't think this issue ought to be so important that it overrides everything else. I don't want the government to be given free ride to do enormous damage solely because people want to not have self-ID. But that's just my view.
This is not just about self ID. Not even close.
This is the single most important issue to me. I will absolutely vote on it and make no apology for doing so. I've been Labour all my life, and would always vote on health, education, welfare state and environment in the past. I'd love to be able to do so now. But women have been pushed down the list in favour of "more important" issues since time immemorial - every right women possess only came about when women stopped accepting that dismissal, and pushed back - and I have had enough. We are 51% of the population. We are now being denied a voice at the fucking table over our own rights and demonised for daring to protest, and I have had enough of it. They are misogynists. I won't vote for misogynists. Why would I?!
The intention, clearly stated by all activists on the trans side of this, is to erase women as a sex class altogether. It will make it impossible to work together for our rights. Men, identifying as women, will speak across us, and for us, and mansplain womanhood to us, and be heard instead of us because they are men. It's already happening. Are you aware that the acknowledged aim is to completely redefine 'woman' so that there is no legally recognised sex-based difference at all? That both Labour and Lib Dems are committed to that? Rape Crisis centres and domestic abuse shelters will be compelled, by law, to employ and serve any male who defines as a woman? Sports the same? Statistics defined not by sex, but by gender? Equal pay, crime, impact of maternity, representation in senior roles, in politics, media? Women have already lost jobs simply for saying sex is real and has real consequences. And the courts held that those views - views that female oppression matters, and must therefore be identifiable - are not worthy of respect in a democratic society. Well, this is the thing about a democratic society: we can vote. And I'll vote for my mothers and sisters and daughters, every damn time.
We are being erased, while those denied access to our spaces and provision (because their male biology proves a huge statistical risk to us, however they define) claim our refusal to accept that erasure erases them. Our right to exist as a sex class was until this month not being debated at all, thanks to the decree of a small number of (terribly marginalised and powerless and vulnerable, you understand) males - we are having to argue that it be debated at all, while those stealing our rights squawk indignantly that it's wrongmeanbad to fucking include us even in a consultation?!
Politicians telling women that they are to allow even rapists into their spaces, on their say so (because rapists leave prisons, and start accessing changing rooms and youth hostel dorms...)? Good luck with that. I hope Opposition benches are comfortable. I'll vote for whichever party protects women's human rights. That simple. Women can sway any election, if they stand together in sufficient numbers. We're a majority. And every single survey shows that this is the majority view. Women are already being raped and sexually assaulted in prisons across the world because of this. And that was an intentional step, because trans activists strategised that prisons were the toughest sell with the least popular women, so if they quietly snuck that in, we couldn't argue effectively against anything else. They literally planned a strategy that put women at horrific risk, and didn't give one single shit, just as long as it aided males. And they say they are women?! This is indeed not a drill. Misogynists aren't going to take over with the assistance of my vote.