JKR in The Times. Labour have dismissed women like me

Which spaces and how will men with GRCs be excluded?

18 months ago Dodds made a statement and still not answered

They’ve spent all that time ignoring women, that’s their bc strategy

Love that JKR has elevated this. She’s brilliant

And a former £1m donation in 2008 is no small change

Labour have responded to the JKR article - this from the BBC's coverage:
We can now bring you the latest comments from the Labour Party, which begins by saying that it "is the party of women's equality, with a manifesto that puts women front and centre".
"Sex and gender are different, as Labour's Equality Act makes clear," the statement continues, "that's why we have consistently said that we will not introduce self ID and that we will protect single sex spaces for biological women".

BBC piece

This seems pretty clear to me, and is what has been said before. But it's not getting through and the question isn't going away , and I think that's because Starmer himself has not made a clear statement (although he has burbled through something similar) - he just needs to do that simple thing, as RedToothBrush and MrsOvertonsWindow said earlier.

Excellent post @RedToothBrush I completely agree.

JKR: Here is what will win my vote. This is what I consider to be really important. Can you answer my questions.

What is the correct response to this, if you think she's powerful enough to stop Corbyn in 2017

Is it
a) give a shedload of abuse?
b) answer the fucking question?

Answers on a postcard to your local electoral office.

Great intervention by JKR at the right moment.

Right now there is maximum attention being paid. We can't stop Labour winning, but we can push them in a better direction.

Rosie, JKR were always right - you can pretend they only became right when Blair said something, but that is a lie.

The SNP are going to lose badly, because they pretended women did not exist.

Labour could be in their position in 2028 - because when they take power the Tories will put all the blame for gender madness on them. Being trapped into being responsible for criminals, medical experiments on kids and cheats is not a great move.

Lets say Labour follow through on their aim to target crime against women. Newsflash that means arresting a LOT more "trans" criminals especially as more and more criminals know that claiming enby or trans status is a great way to gain special treatment. How is that going to look? Even if they hide the stats the high profile cases will mount up.

There are going to be many more cases of medical malpractice.

Women will keep saying true things and people will go crazy.

JKR is only going to get MORE powerful because from 2026 onwards the most popular TV show on the planet is going to be Harry Potter.

Meanwhile as the populist right gets more powerful one of their biggest weapons is going to be the fact is "liberals" are lying about biology. It is a HUGE issue because it undermines everything else. If you lie about women existing you are going to lose people's trust over time.

I have nobody to vote for in my constituency. Women have been disenfranchised just as they were 100 years ago.

Given his (lack of) understanding on the subject, I'd think he'll have had somebody else read it for him and pass on what they think are the relevant points. Anyone who has had the career he has had and has such a shaky understanding of it has clearly paid it no direct attention themselves.

Why is it that there is always something more important than the rights of 50% of the population?

And why is one person out of that 50% suddenly responsible for the rest not voting in enough numbers to allow JC to win an election ?

The book 'The Women Whom Wouldn't Wheesht' details exactly how difficult it to to extricate gender ideology when it is imbedded into civic life, how Scottish women have had to fight tooth and nail to get to where we are, and how there's still a long way to go.

I wouldn't be putting my trust in Labour suddenly deciding to listen to women if they get in.

My apologies @Summerwalksnow I misread your post

Why is it that there is always something more important than the rights of 50% of the population?

And why is freedom of speech something they are not allowed unless they are agreeing with Men ?

Add to that the "Trumpian" insult. Because if we can't accept some of the policies of the left we absolutely must be far right sheeple.

@JuneAgain I'm still voting Labour or for similar reasons, LD (probably, depending on the response) It's not like the women who won't wheesht will suddenly wheesht when Labour get in.

Of course he won’t, he can’t even talk about it

And when it’s all around him he’s so cloth eared and block headed he goes for ignoring it

I disagree. It's very readable, as you'd expect from the woman who wrote the books that got an entire generation of children into reading.

Ed to ad that I misread the quoted post, and I am just hopeful that Starmer will read it in full

This.
Labour could have fixed it. It wasn't difficult as Red points out. Done a year or more ago and this would be old news.
Instead Starmer's been publicly forced into recognising basic facts and biology via Blair being wheeled out to tell him what the rest of us all know. Interviewers know this is a question that makes him look insincere as he derails the most straightforward of questions. Can't speak about the abuse of Rose D despite his claims to be championing tackling VAWG and shamefully has twice used the appalling murder of Brianna Ghey to avoid answering the question.

It's a self inflicted wound. Labour refused to listen to women, including all the loyal labour women members who they bullied, branded as transphobic and kicked many of them out of the party. And this is the consequence of their choices.

The entire article is quite a dossier of stupidities, it goes on and on.
Sir Keir won't read it, he will be given a half page summary prepared by an assistants assistant. It will be accompanied by a throwaway line such as " more ranting from the Harry Potter woman in Scotland but it is in the Times, so it might come up."

I shall buy the Times for the first time ever today.

It is expected to be a super tight race between LD and Con in my constituency, so if I vote LD, it is a vote for a Labour gvt. My LD candidate is a good chap but won't engage on women's rights. I have a PoW candidate but I know NOTHING about her, can't find anything online, no local presence. There is a local GC Indy, but she is bananas (I happen to know her). I have a postal vote. I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. For the first time ever.

JKR reminds me what I am explicitly voting for if I hold my nose and vote LD.

And how would Labour have dealt with Covid?

Health is devolved in Wales and the Labour Welsh government imposed more restrictions than were in force in England.

@Scruffily I'd just like to add that I don't disagree with a single thing you wrote, if anything you probably understated it. I actually liked Corbyn, he only burnt his bridges with me when he refused to call Hamas terrorists after Oct 7th. But we are, where we are and when life gives you lemons....

I think the polls are narrowing, with still loads of 'don't knows'. I still think they'll win, but maybe not as emphatically as first believed.

Why is JKR responsible for the defeats and errors of the Labour Party?

Why aren't the Labour Party responsible for them? Why don't they take ownership of them?

The single biggest issue in UK politics isn't the cost of living. It's the lack of trust and accountability in politics.

That's why we are seeing huge swings in voting.

This article has given me the push to get on with writing to my prospective Labour MP (quite likely to win in my area) and ask him for his views specifically on some of these points. I also used a useful summary from the Sex Matters charity who have reviewed the 3 main parties' manifestos.

If Labour want my vote, they need to be able to articulate their approach better about biological sex versus "gender identity".

I think perhaps women have had enough of fucking wheeshting.

We all just thought JKR was a sensible woman with a good turn of phrase, but it turns out she controls the UK government. Mazing.