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Are you voting in the next general election purely on the transgender issue?

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TeacherAnonymous123 · 30/04/2024 12:54

Just as the title says really! Is that your only thought about who you'll vote for, or will you look at wider policies? Been getting lots of information through my letter box recently, and none mention it.

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Comefromaway · 30/04/2024 13:05

NO, whilst it is important to me other issues are much more important (like education, healthcare and the economy)

Mercurial123 · 30/04/2024 13:05

Not a chance. Another four years of the Conservatives will just drag the UK down even further.

BringMeSunshineAllDayLong · 30/04/2024 13:05

I have given up on the Tories. They could have sorted this out over the last decade. More urgently they should be sorting out right now but they're not and they're using us. I refuse to be used.

No way are they getting my vote.
Labour have been shite on this. Are slowly getting better but too late.
I've never been a single issue voter but if it was just on this. I would absolutely spoil my vote.

Lovelyview · 30/04/2024 13:05

Yes. I'm waiting for the labour party manifesto but I'm not hopeful I'll be able to vote for them. Probably spoiling my ballot paper.

Aussieland · 30/04/2024 13:03

No wonder the country is going to shit

MultiPolarista · 30/04/2024 13:02

Yep.
There is nothing between the parties economically or socially except this issue and as I am in the 51% of people who will have their rights stripped, yes, yes I am def voting Tory on this issue.

Which is novel for a hard core leftist, but hay ho.

BonfireLady · 30/04/2024 13:02

Yes. I had originally planned to spoil my ballot but will now be voting Tory, for the first time ever in my life.

I've never been a single issue voter and never believed that I would be. However, I'm so appalled at the way that a medical and safeguarding scandal of this magnitude has been allowed to happen (on both the Tory and Labour watch) that I will be voting for the only party that is now taking active steps to address it. These active steps include direct interventions (e.g Victoria Atkins with the NHS, the draft guidance for Gender Questioning Children, Kemi Badenoch steering the equalities ship) as well as a change in rhetoric from the top down to recognise the importance of sex over and above a belief in gender identity. There are party members across the House who still actively prioritise this belief over biological sex but the Tories are showing more movement in the right direction.
Wes Streeting's apology is important but it doesn't hold any water if he continues to talk about "trans children" and there is no clear leadership from the top.

Dandel10n · 30/04/2024 13:01

No. The Labour Party have hugely pissed me off on this issue, but overall I feel that the Conservatives are just so bad for the country and I disagree with them on so many other things that my priority is to vote against them.