WRITE TO YOUR MP

Just came here to say that there is an organised campaign to get people to email MPagainst the plan to drop gra reform etc. Gendered intelligence have tweeted about it, and tra twitter is encouraged that they are making the government think twice.

I have already emailed my mp, but I will also email no 10 and liz truss.

No point in expecting anything from My MP Lib Dem Ed Davey. He did a Mumsnet question and answer session a while ago and came out as a fervent trans ideologue.

The bad news is that he is currently acting leader of the Lib Dems and hopes to win the leadership this summer based on his 'vision, experience and leadership'. Hah. Worse news is that the other main contenders include Layla Moran, a devotee of the trans mantra. Wera Hobhouse is the other one - I don't know about her.

Muttonindistress, You can find out your MP's views here; his speeches, how he voted on different issues, his declared interests, whether he is a member of any parliamentary groups or Committees on particular subjects, etc.

www.theyworkforyou.com/

There's also Parliament's website, with a wealth of information:

www.parliament.uk/

And Hansard, the official transcript of debates and proceedings in Parliament:

hansard.parliament.uk/

My MP is a waste of space on this issue. I will write to Liz Truss and Boris.

If you are worried about writing to your MP ask yourself what are you most afraid of, being called a bigot, or being put in the position where you realise you are using a mixed sex service that you assumed would be single sex?

Apparently Liz Truss is making a statement right now

Hi. Thank you for all this great advice. I’m going to email Liz Truss and my local MP this pm while DH is out because he thinks I’ve gone a bit bonkers over all of this.

I have a few questions though.

I have a fairly good idea of what I want to say - but it could easily turn into a long essay. So I was thinking of referring them to some of the posts on here. For example, the one about things that ‘will never happen’ which have happened. Is that okay?

Also, I wonder if it would be a good idea to bump that thread (if I can find it). But I don’t know how that’s done. Do you ask MNHQ?

Finally, I am a bit nervous about emailing MP as I know him slightly. (He often visits my DD’s special School.) So I’m scared of outing myself as GC without knowing his views. Is there anyway of getting an idea of an MPs views on this issue? I’ve googled and he seems okay on women’s stuff - but that doesn’t mean he’s not TWAW. He’s Tory and youngish, but doesn’t seem like a woke bloke.

I am new to ‘campaigning’, so any advice Is very welcome. I’ve got to nag DD into doing some School work now - but will pop back in later.

Thank you.

Great reminder. I'm going to write tomorrow about the falsehoods being given to employers about women not being allowed to complain about men with an identity using female services. This is not true and is unwanted conduct of a sexual nature. It's appalling that these lies are being used to threaten women. The government must stop this now.

Doing this from Scotland with a SNP MP dinosaur who thinks women are already spoilt rotten by the brilliance of the ScotGov

I plan to thank LT & give personal/local details of importance

Need to have something about hoping the single sex protections will apply here/will apply regardless....

Who knows but have had a fair few Instagram friends share it today.

• Share your personal experiences where you feel comfortable to do so, including the situation for women or young people on the ground in your local constituency

• Say why rolling back of women's rights would be so harmful to you personally as a constituent and more widely for women and children

• If you want to go further and meet your MP (and we would definitely recommend this if you feel up for it!), state that clearly.

• Keep in mind MPs are, widely but not universally, not going to know a great deal about these issues, so do keep it as simple as possible while telling a truthful and meaningful story

Done.

gra.good.do/trusstme/trusstme/

This is the campaign they are using and why MPs getting emails from 'allies' now... I just made it read the opposite of what they wrote and used that.

This will be the third time I've written to my MP and he is guarded but supportive. I got an email back within a couple of hours today! He is conservative and works in the whips office so could be a good person to have onside.

I've written to Baroness Nicholson and Liz Truss. I've never written to a politician before.

I'm late to the party on all of this but I'm here now! I plan to write to Keir Starmer next.

Have had a rather fence sitting attachment reply from my Labour MP this afternoon

Thank you, GeneticTest, thank you for this thread.

Is it just me that couldn't care less if my MP thinks I'm a bigot?

I’ve got to the point where I don’t care. It’s an MP’s job to represent the interests of all their constituents. Like being a parent, you don’t get to do the job just for the ones you like the best.

Thanks for the nudge! I don’t think my MP needs pointing in the right direction, but I will send an email anyway, just to be sure!

Is it just me that couldn't care less if my MP thinks I'm a bigot? They're just the same as everyone else and many haven't given this much thought. In my email I actually spelled it out for them that riding the coattails of this movement is a misogynistic element whose very objective is to overstep the mark on women's rights, and that women are being called bigots as a silencing tactic. Don't know if I did right or not, but fed up with not calling this out for what it is. I did of course say I agree with trans people having the same rights as everyone else, but not prepared to beat around the bush any more, as they clearly haven't been listening with that approach.

@2020Wumben he seems pretty sound, I wonder if he gets a few people emailing him from outside his constituency. Having said that, my address is in a town that's in his constituency, just my actual house isn't. Bizarrely. So IDK if that's why he listened last time. I just emailed Number 10, I wish there was something similar for Stormont, as this legislation will affect us (AFAIK).

@Sandybval they dismissed the other side and we have this window basically because TRAs sent copy and paste draft emails, but focussing on how the GRA would affect you directly might be a good starting point. I focused on my concerns re: women's refuges and I also said that I refute the GRA in Ireland being used as an example.

I emailed (my Conservative MP) on Sunday and got a reply yesterday by email. It was slightly guarded but I didn't get called a bigot.