Kemi Badenoch appointed new Minister for Women and Equalities

Well she's been appointed appointed and there's fuck all I can do about it.

I hope to god she can get those men out of women's prisons by next week, frankly. To tell Raab - instant transfers, mate. Do it. That's what I care about right now.

She's not education so won't be doing that

Didn't take long for the howlers to come and try to shut down discussion , did it? Right wing nutters, unhinged, monstrous.

Oh hush you silly women, you know nothing 🙄

Yep.

I haven't even said anything yet.

The right for women in NI to marry other women? The right for women to have an abortion without harassment?

I think the far right of the Tory party is monstrous. They are happy to destroy the things that make Britain great - our culture, our heritage, our environment and our communities. That is monstrous to me.

Well it's one thing expressing strong views. A lot of people are just name calling though. Monster, monstrous, abhorrent... She's not actually a demon, just a politician.

Same. She might know what a woman is, but that doesn't mean she's on our side.

At least nobody has compared Kemi Badonoch to Hitler yet.
That's probably about as nuanced as this discussion is likely to get.

What do you mean? Anti racism in the crt sense is wokism (and is racist). And she supports women agains gender ideology, which is also woke.

Which rights for women is she opposed to?

We've got the government the country voted for and all that that entails.

I do find the absolute polarisation of views strange though, there doesn't seem to be any nuance anymore.

Sadly her views on schools is enough to put me off.

And I'm as GC as they come.

Indeed - and IIRC, the fear was that the proposed misogyny hate crime was very loose on its definition of "woman" and would be weaponised against GC women by the usual suspects.

The same woman who voted against feeding the most vulnerable of these children? Who voted for benefit cuts for people (including women) who are too ill to work and has mocked same sex marriage.

You understand that she considers anti racism and support for womens rights to be 'wokeism'?

This. I'm delighted [now]* she knows what a woman is but the idea of getting rid of TA's shows how out of touch she is with state education. Right wingers are rarely good for women.

*The parenthesis refer to a letter I wrote to her as my constituency MP around 5 years ago about people being able to get around DBS with new birth certificates. As I have mentioned on previous KB threads I got a "be kind" response. She may be on board now but she was late to the party.

Yeh agree ‘monstrous’ is hyperbole.

Kemi Badenoch started the Cass Review which is going to save a lot of kids and others from medical disaster. We should all respect her for that though I disagree with many of her other positions re fracking and economics, gay marriage.

If you are concerned with battling gender ideas in government then I think she will do a good job.

Personally I would prefer to have Rosie Duffield as Minister for Women though.

I didn't say she was a monster, I said her views are monstrous.

Political opinions are allowed to be strongly held - Badenoch herself holds strong views.

Love how fucked up political discourse/silo effect is when everyone right of Blair gets called "right wing nutter" by people who genuinely think they're being clever. Tories have shifted left over the years, they're mostly neolibs now, so anybody actually right-wing (and no, that's not an insult) is seen as outlandish. Well, on mumsnet and twitter, anyway.

Having said that, I actually think unborn babies don't deserve to be killed for being inconvenient to their parents, and would restrict elective abortions to 1st trimester, so I'm probably just a literal nazi or something.

There are many women on here who care about women’s sex based rights but not as many in government, and some who believe TWAW so for a role like this I want someone who is firm on sex based reality.

I can’t think of many who fit the bill. Most aren’t interested or are TWAW.

I haven't used the word nutter and would not, as I said upthread.

I do not know who your MP is, so can't comment.

I love Kemi and think she would make a good pm too. Happy with this as she is very clear on her opposition to wokery of all kinds.

The frothing at the mouth from posters calling her abhorrent and a monster! A monster 👻 fucking hell, get some perspective.