The reach of speaking up. The ripple effect.

How do you open?
"Where do you stand on women's sex-based rights?" Or something else?

I'm feeling inspired!
We have a WEP candidate

@catchant, I had a similar experience yesterday but with Labour. I felt pleased to have said my piece but I got flannel back. Hopefully she will go away and think about it.

I wrote them an essay the other day!

DH answered the door to him and was grinning like a shark as he told him: "My wife will be happy to talk to you."

Our front garden is very small but we have chairs there which we put out to facilitate this when people knock at the door. I like the candidates to be comfortable while I take them through a checklist of relevant items.

I've responded to a staff survey on inclusion, covering the whole civil service, with a few brief points in free text boxes. It's anonymous so I'm hoping others have done the same. My department is pretty woke so I suspect most are scared to challenge directly, like me.

A Liberal Democrat councillor just came canvassing and has run away after admitting he didn't know much about the issue but he agreed a person with a penis had no place in women's prisons, toilets, or changing rooms.

I told him that meant he had no place in the Liberal Democrats and he scuttled off saying: "I can see you know a lot more about this than I do." I very much doubt he meant that because he was clearly desperate to get away from me.

Still he said JKR had been very unfairly treated. So maybe he'll go away and think about it.

DH answered the door to him and was grinning like a shark as he told him: "My wife will be happy to talk to you."

I had my appraisal yesterday and mentioned the crowd justice things I've donated to. It sparked off a conversation with one of my directors about Kiera Bell - he had no idea.
Also managed to manoeuver myself into a position to take on some of the Equality & Diversity stuff.
I'm very lucky to work in a non-woke environment but it does mean that nobody really gives a thought to this kind of thing. I can't make a massive impact on people (my own daughter thinks I'm a bigot*) but I'm trying to stick my head above the parapet. Albeit in a very safe way.

*The charges against me include "reading Mumsnet" and "supporting JK Rowling"

I spoke to a family member who is Chair of the Governors of a secondary school.

As a result their residential trips policy now has a sentence in saying sleeping arrangements are to be single sex.

And the previous policies had been taken from a template used by an Academy Trust, and the change in policy created debate there too.

So probably well over 2000 pupils now certain of single sex sleeping arrangements on trips.

Thanks OP, feels good to realise that!

Have a conversation with Labour candidate at my local ward. He was very pleasant unlike my MP who always tell me it is all due to misinformation (mine of course).
I had my DP and DD behind the door listening in.

My next door neighbours within hearing reach. The candidates team might have heard about why he was held!

I am writing to him to thank him for listening and admitting he doesn’t know much and give him some pointers.