WRITE TO YOUR MP

Have just emailed mine as well. I noticed I'd last emailed on this issue in October 2018, so a new email was well overdue!

First time I have ever emailed an MP, but I've done it. Male Conservative in my constituency. No idea of his views on sex and gender, wait and see if I get a response.

I’ve written to mine many times. He kind of gets it. I’ve ordered a raft of thank you cards this morning so I’ll be writing a snail mail piece to many MPs.

OMG. I've written to my MP. Never done it before.

I drafted my own narrative, kept it short and to the point and avoided getting emotionally involved.

Today is a good day

Just emailed my MP. Mentioned the changes to NHS info, trans toolkits being withdrawn etc and the Manchester Detrans meeting I attended last October.

Thank you. I have just written to mine

I am not GC and have written to my MP with my opinions. I think it's always a good idea to write to your MP though I rarely feel I get a meaningful response back.

I wrote to mine about single sex hospital wards and prisons but they are woke and I never heard back. I'll try again.

Just done Keir Starmer. Emphasised my socialist credentials and how he's lost my vote and that of a lot of women.

That's my (Tory male) MP done and Liz Truss. I was able to make it very personal, mentioned how gyms are falling to 'self-id' policies which effectively exclude girls and women who can't face meeting males in their changing rooms, how schools bringing in 'gender-neutral' toilets is already leading to girls not being able to go to the toilet, etc.

If you include all the ways you know it would affect you (and other girls and women) if self-id is brought in - because it's already happened in many respects - you need to emphasise how this will curtail your own rights to use facilities.

I also mentioned the EA2010 provisions for single-sex facilities and the fact that it excludes a wide range of women, specifically mentioning also women of particular faiths.

Thanks to you guys I've sent messages to the PM and Liz Truss via the proper channels.

I am astonished that a male MP can state that he regards it as "sexist and offensive" to talk about women's rights to and need for single sex changing rooms.

I'd venture to suggest it's "sexist and offensive" of a man to wave aside a woman's concerns in this respect.

Emailing Liz Truss now. Hadn't thought of that, so thank you for the nudge.

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Just to confirm that if you write to Liz Truss at the [email protected] and make it absolutely clear that you are writing to her in her capacity as Minister for Women and Equalities, your email or letter will go through.

I've done it. I also emailed my Conservative MP yesterday and know from our previous correspondence that I am pushing at an open door but OP is right. The more pro-women constituents who write, the better.

Thank you, GeneticTest, for this timely reminder.

Now is absolutely the time to make ourselves heard. Again.

Maybe they just didn't like my tone 🤷🏻‍♀️

I didn't, I used a link in another thread (mp@parliament) Off to try again...
Yes, that's what I did, sent it to the geo address.

My MP knows my views and told me I was both sexist and offensive when I talked about changing rooms etc with him so I don't know if it is worth it with him. He is so woke its amazing. Other local posters have had worse run ins.

I've written to mine, who is a tory male. He hasn't replied yet, just a generic acknowledgment. I told him I was in strong agreement with the leaked plans, and how dismayed I'd been with Labour responses to women and their concerns about self-id. Encouraged mil to write too, and to get her friends to do the same.

I emailed Liz Truss and got a "You're not in my constituency so I won't be reading this" response. Charming.
Did you use the same email address I linked above? In my automated response it said:

MINISTER FOR WOMEN AND EQUALITIES

If your email is regarding my role as Minister for Women and Equalities please email [email protected] or call 03000 200 229.

It was an auto response, designed to leave you in no doubt that you're being asked to fuck off.
Odd, I wasn't even asking a question.

I emailed my (Conservative) MP yesterday, having already exchanged correspondence with him on this issue. (His reply to my initial letter was moderately encouraging; far more positive to my point of view than his Labour predecessor.) I intend to contact Liz Truss and Boris Johnson today as well as Keir Starmer. It's all quite exhausting and it's easy to be discouraged but we have come a long way since the days of the Consultation and so much of that is due to FWR.

Thisis I also wrote to Liz. At least you got a reply! I certainly didn't.

I've written to my MP. I agree that brief is best. I would suggest writing about how you welcome the government's decision to scrap GRA reform and Truss's commitment to continuing to provide single-sex spaces for women and girls. As a woman, you value the privacy and safety that single-sex spaces provide. If your MP isn't a Tory perhaps you can finish by urging them to support the government's decision.