Labour member suspended for saying only women go through menopause

We live close to Rosie Duffield's constituency, and he has always supported her. I think that seeing how she is treated by the party (and there is a lot of vitriol aimed her way in the local branch), reinforced everything I had been saying to him about Labour (I've been a very unsupportive political wife, I'm afraid). He started seeing how blatant the misogyny is, he became very vocal in his support of Rosie. He can't believe that someone reported his post, or that it was taken seriously enough to suspend him. I'm less surprised.

Craziness gone mad! Excuse me while I head over to the Daily Mail without further delay.

@TheMenopausalMrsHouse
Well done to him but how awful for him (and you). I hope he finds something worthwhile and fulfilling to do and that his health improves or at least stays stable

Labour cannot ignore 51% population forever but looks like they are happy to prolong things and be in eternal opposition.

For clarification I have always believed in sex based rights. So disappointed that all left and centre parties in the UK have swallowed this gender identity ideology nonsense.

Also, cross sex hormones can cause some transmen to need hysterectomy as it can cause atrophy. So yes they will experience menopause, probably earlier than if they hadn't transitioned. I think Buck Angel has been very outspoken about then need for transmen to be made aware of this as part of their transition treatment.

Like PPs, I hope the press get hold of this and publicise this madness far and wide.

This is my husband. He has been a committed member of his Labour Party branch, a lot of his spare time has been spent working for the local party, and he was campaigning for a neighbouring council by-election right up to the moment he opened that email. This is as much about branch politics as anything, and I am very glad that it is blowing up in their faces. Recent health problems encouraged him to decided to resign rather than fight the suspension and he felt that even if he fought it, he has lost his trust in the other members of his branch who reported him rather than respect a difference of opinion. If you challenge a suspension, you are not supposed to talk about the reasons behind the suspension, and, he felt that this was something that needed to be talked about.

He says he is simultaneously euphoric at getting this off his chest, and heartbroken that his party has betrayed him.

Labour are deluded and a waste of space.

If this doesn't make it into the Daily Mail I am going to complain to Ofcom that they are not carrying out their remit of finding stupid things the left has done in order to make their readers shout, 'This Is Insane!' over their cornflakes.

C'mon DM, let's be having you!

What a cult....the Conservatives deserve to be in power for ever

Whatever labour do, it doesn’t make that corrupt collection of bastards we currently have any more deserving of power. The most they can ever aspire to be is slightly less undeserving.

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Someone is indulging in "conduct prejudicial and/or grossly detrimental to the party" in this incident, but it's not Mr House.

Labour will never get back in power while they have that wet lettuce leading them

I honestly cannot see why they don’t change course, Gaspode. They must either have people polling for them telling them it’s disastrous and they’re ignoring it; or (I suspect) they’re not even asking the right questions. From his cervix bollocks I suspect that Starmer has been captured on this, but it’s utterly, utterly disastrous as a party policy, and any leader with any skill at all would be trying to reverse course as fast as possible. Talk about echo chambers

Labour is finished. Absolutely finished. We have one of the worst governments in history and even at the end of a horrendous fortnight for the Tories Labour is only edging ahead in the polls.

Britain Elects poll tracker — first Labour lead since November 2020

Lab: 36.6%
Con: 36.5%
LDem: 9.2%
Grn: 6.8%

At work last month there was a message on the front page of our intranet about Menopause Day - without any mention whatsoever of the words 'woman' or 'female'.

Apparently 51% of the population are affected by it, but who exactly is a complete mystery!

I joke but I was genuinely upset to see an example of this in real life for the first time. How dare my employer treat 'woman' and 'female' as dirty words.

... but yeah, they would go through some weird changes if/when their female hormones get switched off. Taking male hormones on top would alleviate some symptoms, but not all. You can't change sex, but you can mess up your body by trying to do so.

When it comes to biology/medicine, made up social categories and gender feelings aren't particularly relevant. The only definition of man/woman that makes sense in that context is the male/female sex binary.

I saw this on twitter too. Didn’t realised he’d been suspended!

Why the hell they can’t say - ‘women go through the menopause. Even if they refer to themselves in other terms’ I do not know.

A concession can be made that non-binary folk and transmen can also experience menopause but I'd bet money that's not the audience Gil House has offended with their "only women" comment.

Another reason to keep a decent distance from Labour as a voter for the foreseeable.