Labour member suspended for saying only women go through menopause

Although it is a different party, this caught my eye as being relevant to this thread. And for your husband TheMenopausalmrsHouse.

twitter.com/libvoice4women/status/1462575843910238208?s=21

Mrs House, I saw on twitter that someone suggested he do a subject access request. That should reveal what was said by email etc on the decision to suspend, and then the decision to unsuspend. It might be that he doesn't want to completely annoy and fall out with the branch, but I hope he gives it some thought because I'm sure it would be really interesting. And we all need (in all our different parties and orgsisations) to reach a point where people stop trying to just make opinions that are inconvenient to them disappear, by ostracising and forcing out. This can go nowhere good and really has to stop.

Labour has not won an election since 2005 and it is not surprising if they carry on doing this.

I think they are doing this because they haven’t won an election since 2005, and therefore haven’t been concerned with drawing up legislation for more than a decade.

I don’t think the Conservatives stepped back from the brink because they are concerned about women, I think they looked at the implications of the proposed legislation and didn’t want to be responsible.

Labour are living in an alternative reality where this is all about American legislation on access to ‘bathrooms’ and nobody has to think about prisons.

[quote TheMenopausalMrsHouse]@Needmoresleep absolutely this is what would have happened.

At the moment he says he is angrier about the second letter than the first, he is disappointed that they think they can act like nothing has happened, and torn about what to do next. We think that his vocal support for Rosie from within the party made him a marked man.[/quote]
Sounds like the locals got carried away.well done to hubby for standing his ground.

And my apologies to toddlers for comparing them to labour party activists.

It's so typical that instead of issuing a gracious apology:
"Sorry - this shouldn't have happened, someone got carried away, we've spoken to them. We apologise for the offence caused" All those things we teach children about how to correct a wrong.
Yet all this shower can manage is "admin error" - just so that they don't have to do the decent thing and actually say sorry. Toddlers should not be running any part of the labour party.

Didn't you realise that being a man and working alongside or living with a woman going through menopause is pretty much the same as going through it yourself?

As far as I can see it was Liz Truss who announced it had been dropped in September 2020 so just before Johnson's 80 seat majority in December 2020 - he had taken over as PM in July 2019. So Mrs May was effectively out of the picture.

And a second sneeze pressed send.

They sneezed and their fingers typed out their inner-essence-thoughts?

@MrsOvertonsWindow

An "admin error"

Presumably we can now look forward to Starmer's instructions to women not to talk about our cervixes, Lammy's directions to the nation on cervix growing for men and Nandy's enthusiasm for the rights of rapists and sex offenders to be housed in prisons alongside women to to be redefined as "admin errors" ???

This could be their collective reverse ferret moment.

'Transwomen are women? That was a typo!'

Have they actually explained what the ‘admin error’ is because surely that would mean getting someone’s name wrong or an incorrect date... not complete arse about face.

An "admin error"

Presumably we can now look forward to Starmer's instructions to women not to talk about our cervixes, Lammy's directions to the nation on cervix growing for men and Nandy's enthusiasm for the rights of rapists and sex offenders to be housed in prisons alongside women to to be redefined as "admin errors" ???

This could be their collective reverse ferret moment.

Labour has not won an election since 2005 and it is not surprising if they carry on doing this. the fact NQ then ordered the decision reversed to avoid bad publicity which might affect the 50% of the UK who are female is still not good enough. It should not have happened in the first place.

I know I was probably Mrs May's only UK supporter at the time of her premiership but she DID stop the then Tory plans to amend the gender change laws and a few other good things.

@Needmoresleep absolutely this is what would have happened.

At the moment he says he is angrier about the second letter than the first, he is disappointed that they think they can act like nothing has happened, and torn about what to do next. We think that his vocal support for Rosie from within the party made him a marked man.

Sounds as if a journalist phoned Labour Party HQ for a quote and the message went down to the local branch telling them to reverse their decision.

Mrs House, what does your husband intend to do? It is clearly very toxic, yet he now has the advantage that he is in a good position to speak out from within in support of Rosie Duffield.

@eurochick I think that's a pretty apt analogy for a party being led by an army of keyboard warriors.

@Shedmistress I wish that was true but there was no mention of the charges in the letter just that the case was reviewed and it's not being taken further, a let's pretend the whole thing never happened vibe. I don't think we can read that as accepting biological fact, just an attempt to brush the whole episode under the carpet.

"Give labour activists access to keyboards and they will eventually churn out accusations of transphobia entirely by accident?"

With predictive text, the probability might be quite high!

I am going to laughing about that for days!

Another thanks to your husband.

Is he planning on challenging how it could have been an ‘administration error’?

If so-and no judgement if not- can he insist they clarify @Shedmistress point? In writing maybe?

At least this means they concede that it is only women that go through the menopause.

Admin error. Aye.