Gender Criticals - how are you going to vote in the election?

Conservative, with reservations. Absolutely cannot vote for any of the others and my local Conservative MP is one of the better ones.

Could you say exactly who, and why you know this?

I don't have a UK vote any more but I'd be struggling to know who to vote for if I did. I hope somebody is sending a link to this thread to Starmer.

The number of spoiled ballots is always recorded.

If I had the chance I’d vote SDP. My natural home would probably be the Green Party but now they have sold themselves out to gender identity ideology and given up on all their original values, I have given up on them.

I might spoil the ballot or not vote. It makes no difference what I do, I’m in one of the safest Conservative seats in the country.

Not Labour. Not Tory. Not LibDem. I have always voted Labour but am politically homeless now.

Probably a local candidate. Or the SDP if they field a candidate. Although they aren't a perfect fit for my politics.

That Labour affiliated LGBT lobby groups have that much power over a pro women MP is very concerning. They will destroy her career

I can’t square that with being GC

So much power to control, it will go up after a win

That smacks of "It's not important enough to choose your vote over, women, think of the bigger things".

That's been the 'reasoning' women have been hearing since the year dot. 'Issues which concern women are simply not worthy of serious attention. Go and worry your pretty heads about something more important'.

It won't fly.

I'll probably spoil my vote :(

I can't in good conscious vote for any of them.

I know it won’t be Labour

Labour. I might have to old my nose a little on the GC stuff - and don't even get me started on Eddie Izzard - but overall, I cannot vote for Tories who have single handedly destroyed so many things, have caused the vast bulk of us to lose total trust in government and who continue to live in a world completely divorced from the reality that the rest of us face.

I also don't believe that labour are as TWAW as they seem. I think it's a combination of them being a bit clueless, a bit spineless and not prioritising the issue.

"There are people in the Tory party who would roll back women's reproductive rights given half a chance" is not the same as "The Tories want to roll back women's reproductive rights".

There are more people in the Labour Party who actively want vulnerable women to be imprisoned with male rapists, which I think is actually worse, given that "rolling back" abortion rights in the UK, if it happened, would most likely mean the legal limit being earlier than 24 weeks. Only one other country in Europe has such a generous limit. They could shave 6 weeks off and British women would still have the second most generous time limit in the whole of Europe.

However, what the Tories want, more than anything, is to win elections. And rolling back abortion rights isn't a vote winner.

Im in Scotland. I do not want SNP/Greens so I would like to have voted Labour to try and oust them however, I will not vote for Scottish Labour since they all voted for the GRR bill, I have a daughter and therefore to vote for supporters of this bill would be sickening. Any vote for smaller parties or independents is basically a vote for the SNP so I have no choice by to vote Tory and I will do so proudly knowing that I am standing up for my daughters safety and in my opinion, her human rights.

Incidentally, an I know anecdote is not data, but our relationship has outlived all but one of the marriages in our circle.

@WomenShouldStillWinWomensSports

There is an attempt to see if a spoiled ballot actually meant to have voted for somebody, but no, the reasons people give or the way they spoil them aren't recorded anywhere.

Probably Conservative, although the last one was pretty shit and the current Lib Dem MP we have is very hard-working and dedicated to the area. But I can't vote for her when she thinks that a man is a woman if he says he is. The Cons have a new candidate for parliament, so I'll be quizzing him. If he's not GC enough, then I'll spoil my ballot (although I hate to do this when women died to give me the vote 😩)

There are plenty of people in the Tory party who would roll back women's reproductive rights given half a chance. That is one of the reasons I will always vote labour.

The Lib Dems hate women even more than Labour do.

Possibly Labour if I can stomach it, because voting is about more issues than this one and fuck what the Tories have done to our country in the last 12 years or however long it has been.

I may well spoil my ballot though. Its a pity they don't record the reasons people give for doing so.

But we know it would have been worse if Labour had been in power because we think the Tories have gone too far and Labour think the Tories haven't done enough.

It won't be labour. Sorry. Not after I had our local candidates shouting at me on my own doorstep and drowning out the female canvasser who was with him who at least seemed to understand some of the gender issues.

Surely whichever way you look at it, a Tory vote doesn't make sense if you care about gender ideology.

The Tories have been in power since 2010 and gender ideology is more of an issue than it's ever been.

Tactical vote for Lib Dems to remove the Conservatives. Would be Labour if they had any chance of winning.

The fact that I should think there are a lot of Labour officials who would rather lose the Canterbury seat than see Rosie Duffield in Parliament expresses everything that's wrong with modern politics. Maybe when they start losing MPs due to witch-hunts they will think again.

What actually happens to spoiled ballots? Does anyone read/record what is on them or do they just go in the bin?

@TheValueOfEverything I only arrived at this recently. Rewind to 2016 and I thought we all needed to vote Labour to make any difference.