WRITE TO YOUR MP

This afternoon:

• I have emailed my MP again (female, Labour, no substantive reply to my previous two emails).

• I have emailed no 10

• I have emailed GEO.

Who else should I contact?

Place marking for the valuable info given here.

You can just keep it very short and simple:

Dear MP.

Please pass on my support to Liz Truss and also let the Prime Minister know that I support Liz in saying NO to Self ID and YES to maintaining single SEX spaces and services. I hope you are going to support her too.

Thank you
Name and constituency address.

Whaaat

TRA- Trans Rights Activist

Self ID - the act of a male person identifying as a woman (or vice versa) to access things for women (females). In the case of the GRA (Gender Recognition Act) it means that people can legally become the opposite sex and get a new birth certificate.

GC - gender critical - an umbrella term for many types of people who have concerns about various elements of gender identity politics, most notably changing the law to allow self ID to become female, and allowing male people to use women's spaces such as toilets, changing rooms, refuges, prisons etc or compete as women in sport.

Just done mine. He responded last time so we'll see.

There’s a petition on change.org (I can’t link these can I?) to support liz.

I'm really sorry to derail but am I the only one who can barely follow a word of this? OP, what does your first post mean? Sorry I'm going away and Googling and trying to remember what all of these abbreviations mean but by the time I've come back to read the post and go away to find the next one I've forgotten the previous ones! I am trying to learn here about what's going on and lend my support but I can't do that if I don't fully understand, and I know I'm not the only one who feels this. Some of the mums in the playground were talking about this and have said they feel a bit alienated by both sides so have no idea what to think! Can someone translate the first post for me pretty please? It's not that I don't understand things in general but all of these acronyms are going straight over my head!!!!

So if all the readers of the p/news write... she will be inundated with 3 emails and a tweet.

I think Liz Truss was talking about conversion therapy, but maybe there was more.

also, and nobody needs to click on the link but PN have published this today: "Thousands of cisgender women sign letter urging Liz Truss to halt anti-trans plans: ‘We do not need protecting from trans people’ " www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/17/liz-truss-gender-recognition-act-reform-cis-women-open-letter-trans-equality/

Letter is here liztrussopenletter.wordpress.com/

My mp is useless. She just bitches about everything the gvt does and cheerleads for the mayor. Never answers email or tweets. Only there because people vote Labour our of habit.

Obviously he probably wouldn't read it anyway

Emailed a heartfelt letter this afternoon with links to evidence to my MP and Liz Truss at her GEO address. I copied BJ but I don't think he'll read it as not through the proper channels.

Just surprised myself by emailing not only my local MP but also Liz Truss and Boris Johnson.

I used this letter by Human Rights Watch as a base (just needed to write the exact opposite) and also included a link to JK Rowling’s essay.

We really do need to make our voices heard, thank you to everybody on here who keeps nudging

I have written to my Lib Dem TWAW MP. I have never written to my MP before, so thank you to all that suggested ways of organising and structuring the email. Will report back when she replies.

Thank you, hyper and Teds! I could find the Times one, but it didn’t have a link to the medium one, which is what I wanted. I thought that would be more powerful than anything I could write.

Other collections of TRA abuse:

photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOM9J_ZIrYtiMagVRr_jhagMR-XP59TBsJFLwNlcS13iIUT4ovqKRN9zttevr0PmA?key=NmJuV1AyRnVSU3dOS2VObVhLSm1uNUkxRjRBSk9R

terfisaslur.com/

Here is an article from Glinner, TheBobbinIsWoundUp. The screenshot you want is near the bottom. Be warned though, the whole article is a hard read. Glinner lays it all out systematically, using the brave and stunning ones' own words.

glinner.co.uk/a-week-in-the-war-on-women-monday-8th-may-sunda/

I don't have a share token, but I think it's this:
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jk-rowling-trolls-rain-down-curses-misogyny-and-sexual-threats-65jgk6535

Which has a link to this:
medium.com/@rebeccarc/j-k-rowling-and-the-trans-activists-a-story-in-screenshots-78e01dca68d

I’ve emailed my MP. She’s new, Labour. We’ll see what she says.

I want to refer to that article that listed a selection of the rape and death threats JKR received in response to her article but can’t remember where it was - can anyone help me out?

hypernormal, Some of them are batty enough to believe unbelievable nonsense! I certainly won't forget.
TedsFederationRep, Your arguments are right. I know that. Our own individual MPs are the basis of Parliament and our link to it but I now think we also need to get right in there, writing and giving evidence to the official cross-party select committees (who do the investigations, reports and policy recommendations which are supposed to be independent of government, like the Miller travesty), and even the All Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) which are not official but self-forming groups with a special subject of interest. There's a long list of those. It's a way of making views known to MPs besides our own.

It doesn't matter how woke your MP is or which party your MP represents, the simple fact is that as a constituent, you have every right to speak up and have your voice heard. You have every right to tell your MP what you stand for and what you won't stand for.

If we stay silent because we think our voices will be ignored, then the only voices they will hear will be those of the TRAs and trans allies and they will feel fully justified in going straight ahead in the full knowledge that they have received only validation and support. MPs need to know they don't have a free pass on this. They need to know that TRAs do not speak for all women and girls.

Abitofalark I'd write anyway, because frankly I don't believe any of them believe this sh*t they're spouting or have done any research other than being indoctrinated by lobby groups. More and more voices are speaking out on this, the public are becoming more aware of the issues and they seriously aren't going to hold this extremist, science-denying view forever, it's not going to work. I imagine they'll quietly back away from it eventually and hope no-one remembers how stupid and misogynistic jumping on this bandwagon has made them look. We won't forget, though.