Write to your new MP, if you voted for them or not, and ask them to support women's rights, spaces and sports and protect and safeguard children. 2minute email, will help the cause

I have done so multiple times, and this is a great action but I hope you dont mind me saying, they get far more notice if they are shorter. I have it straight from my MP that long letters tend to get ignored more.
It makes sense given the volume of mail they recieve every day.

One can always add links to the relevant documents, research and articles that they are then free to research if they want.

I will! Not least because some of the points on my email (upthread) were completely ignored.

A fairly typical mealy-mouthed reply from my MP, though better than previous ones which were far more dismissive of my concerns.

Bingo.

Because why would any woman want single sex spaces, equality, their own words, other than to really piss off a man?

I mean, it's not like we're real people, or ever have thoughts or do anything that is not all about a bloke, is it? And fgs what are we for or what is a single sex space for if not for the use and happiness of blokes?

Ooh India Willoughby is onto you! 🤣

Gosh, no, none of us knew that!

You numpty.

Just so all you labour supporters are aware :

Labour’s new equalities minister has previously failed to define what a woman is.
Anneliese Dodds, who was shadow equalities spokeswoman, was announced in the role on Monday morning.
In a radio interview two years ago Ms Dodds said there are “different definitions legally around what a woman actually is” and, when pressed again, said: “I think it does depend what the context is.”
Still happy with Kier?

It's a nice clear letter you've come up with @Valdor but I'm afraid it does have that unmistakeable whiff of AI about it; I'm an English teacher, so I get to see an awful lot of chatgpt's take on persuasive writing 😉.

I'm also of the opinion that it's 'jarred sauce'.

But where I am completely in agreement with you, is that now is the perfect time to start writing & keep writing, raising the concerns you have raised.

I don't like AI either and will not use it. I do like thinking and writing, though.

We used to do every by hand. We even limped by without computers for 99.99% of human existence. I just don't like AI, OP.

Be that as it may, that's a good letter from @borntobequiet .
But despite the suggestions of the OP, I doubt very much that i'll be using AI for anything this side of the boneyard! 😛

We had a workplace incident recently in which a staff member was caught on film spouting offensive shit (dealt with promptly, no longer here). We were very quickly inundated with complaint emails all c&ped from a template. The message is vastly reduced when you've read exactly the same thing for the 100th time.

Anything written in your own words is much more impactful.

This is what I sent to my re-elected Tory MP:

Congratulations on your re-election as our Member of Parliament.

From previous correspondence, you will know that I am concerned about the rights of women and girls primarily to safety, privacy and dignity, but also to fairness. The things I believe are important for women and girls, and which I hope that you will promote as my MP, are:

The right to single sex spaces such as toilets and changing rooms, with no male-bodied people present. Men who wish to transition often have no medical or surgical treatments, and even when they do, are still biologically men. Third spaces are a reasonable compromise.

The right to require medical and personal services from a same-sex (not same gender) health worker, particularly intimate care, for obvious reasons.

The right for women to access single-sex services for support after sexual assault or domestic abuse, for obvious reasons.

The right for girls and women in sport to compete only against same-sex competitors. Any male who goes through puberty has all the physical advantages that confers, and even young boys often have physical attributes that give them unfair advantages. This is as important in grassroots as in elite sport, possibly more so, as if women and girls cannot compete fairly at grassroots level, they will never progress to elite level. It is difficult enough to persuade pubescent girls into sport without them having to contend against boys (and worse, change with them).

The right for gender-questioning or gender distressed young people, particularly girls, to have all aspects of their discomfort thoroughly examined to eliminate conditions such as autism, mental health difficulties or conditions exacerbated by abuse, before any suggestion of being “trans” is made. This is particularly important, given Labour’s proposed ban on “conversion therapy”, which could potentially prevent parents or professionals from undertaking appropriate discussions with children.

The right for all young people to access factual, scientifically and medically accurate information about their sexed bodies, and not to be taught un evidenced and counterfactual aspects of genderism that conflate sex and gender, suggest that sex is a ”spectrum” and imply that a person can literally “change sex” with hormones and surgery. (It should be a safeguarding offence first any education professional to promote such misinformation.) The Cass Review has some pertinent and useful observations on this.

Anyway, once more, well done. I’m not a Conservative voter, but I know that you are a decent and diligent constituency MP and I am grateful for that. I hope that your party will now be able to come back from the brink to which it has been led by unscrupulous and misguided individuals and return to being the broad church of pragmatic, forward thinking Western democracy that it has been in the past.

Sincerely

She is a decent MP, on the whole, and always replies.

How the hell do you decide what spam is and if my letters to my MP are spam? I've never used AI, or c/p from a template when I've written to my MP, I've only written a few letters, not hundreds but I've always received a written reply in the post on HoC paper. As did my 16yo daughter when she probably did use a template to write about an issue she was concerned about.

The most common reason for not getting a reply is not including your address because they need to know you are a constituent. There is no point writing to a minister unless they are your MP, they aren't suppose to reply to general letters from individuals, it has to go via your own MP.

IIJM who hates the whole idea of AI with a passion?

Not just you! To me, it's the jarred sauce of modern tech and I'd rather do stuff myself.

IIJM who hates the whole idea of AI with a passion? AFAIC it can FOFTFSOFATFOSM!

I don't mind writing to my MP, but she's never replied when I've mailed her before, and I don't see that changing. And hey, now she's a real Minister instead of just a Shadow, I'm sure she's even busier.

I don’t see why a Muslim male MP whose campaign was based on Palestine shouldn’t be interested in women’s rights to privacy and dignity. He will have women in his own family.
I remember being rather ashamed when I went to see a new GP, a male Muslim, thinking that he wouldn’t be sympathetic with regard to my perimenopausal symptoms. He was kind and understanding, and gave me the treatment I was hoping for, unlike a couple of female GPs who seemed to take the view that because it hadn’t been something they themselves had to deal with, other women must be making it up.

I have East German friends who remember the stasi so I am cautious and I have to be in the workforce for some time

not sure if criminal more likely a civil issue breach of GDPR but do you really trust the police and CPS to act? Look at the treatment of other feminists who have spoken out. Have the police protected them ?