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Urgent BH terfing- write to your MP TODAY 5th May on the Data Bill

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CriticalCondition · 05/05/2025 12:47

I think this should have its own thread for visibility. The Data Bill is being debated this week and will introduce self ID by the back door unless an amendment is made. Sex Matters has a template letter on this to send to your MP. It will only take a few minutes but it MUST be sent today (Monday 5th) so please make this your Bank Holiday terfing.

https://sex-matters.org/posts/updates/urgent-action-email-your-mp-today-on-the-data-bill/

URGENT ACTION: email your MP today on the Data Bill - Sex Matters

What’s the problem? The amendment to solve the problem Write to your MP! The Supreme Court has confirmed that “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 means, and has always meant, “biological sex”. The law is clear: single-sex services should operate on the basi...

https://sex-matters.org/posts/updates/urgent-action-email-your-mp-today-on-the-data-bill/

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334bu · 05/05/2025 20:27

Done.

CarpeVitam · 05/05/2025 20:14

Done. And thank you, OP.

Calyx72 · 05/05/2025 19:39

Done - hope it’s not too late.

AlexandraLeaving · 05/05/2025 19:27

Done, although with only limited hope of it making a difference - my MP is on the Labour front bench, plus I know that it is standard practice on principle not to accept non-government amendments (so I have instead encouraged her to lobby her colleagues to agree to accept the principle behind the amendment and bring forward a government amendment to achieve the same effect) and also unlikely that a substantive amendment would be accepted at Report Stage in the second House (so have made the point that the clarification provided by the Supreme Court has happened since Committee Stage and therefore it is important to take account of that to avoid inadvertently making bad law).

Hamabeed · 05/05/2025 19:23

Done

Notmydaughteryoubitch · 05/05/2025 18:45

Done thank you! My lovely but very deluded on this matter daughter in law was encouraging her friends on Instagram earlier to email their MPs about the trans erasure etc etc....

TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 05/05/2025 18:38

Pink News are also telling people to write to the MP's, but for the opposite reason of course. They're also going after the Sullivan Review.

"LGBTQ+ data researcher, Kevin Guyan, posted to Bluesky, warning that the amendments should be “opposed” immediately.
In a set of posts, he said that while he believes the bill is “unlikely to go anywhere,” allies should see the amendments as part of a “wider campaign to erase trans people from data systems.”
“Write to your MP and tell them to reject the ‘sex data’ amendment to the Data Bill AND reject the recommendations of the Sullivan Review,” he added. “If adopted by government, the Sullivan recommendations would similarly erase trans people from data systems.”

socialdilemmawhattodo · 05/05/2025 18:11

Peregrina · 05/05/2025 16:00

My MP is Layla Moran, so I don't really expect a positive response, but I will write this evening. I have to go out now. I will also be able to state why I am cancelling my membership.

It's worth noting though, that it is best to make your letter as personal as possible - the standard letters copied from a campaigning organisation
template tend not to get much consideration.

This is true. My MP for years has stated that he is there to help his constituents with their direct issues, and therefore he will not take notice of a campaign letter. I think that is fair enough - so do amend the template letter - even if it is with only one personal example.

Tinkergirl1970 · 05/05/2025 17:58

Done, thanks for flagging this

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CriticalCondition · 05/05/2025 17:54

Thanks so much to everyone who has spared the time today to do this. Still time to rope in friends and family as well!

The template makes it easy but, as a PP said upthread, an extra couple of minutes spent personalising it will mean it's more likely to be taken seriously.

Looking forward to when we don't have to be on alert for this stuff. But, as another thread is currently discussing, only functioning grown-ups get shit done!

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Namechange285 · 05/05/2025 17:52

Done ✔️

ChristinaXYZ · 05/05/2025 17:45

Bump

Ramblingnamechanger · 05/05/2025 17:29

Sent an email anyway!

mrshoho · 05/05/2025 17:27

Emailed my Conservative MP. I'm sure he is GC so hope he turns up and has an understanding of what this amendment means. I added to my email saying how much of mess we got in partly because of blatant misinterpretation of the EA 2010 but also the absurdnes of the GRA 2004.

ATowerOfGiraffes · 05/05/2025 17:18

Also done, and grateful to Sex Matters for setting out a template that could easily be personalised (I added the link to the Sullivan report in the email to highlight to him that they really should be following the recommendations from their own gov review ref clear data)

NotMeekNotObedient · 05/05/2025 17:15

Thanks for flagging, I had no idea. Sent!

Wondermoomin · 05/05/2025 17:13

Done, with my own context added.
Thank you for drawing it to our attention.

SparklyPinkHairband · 05/05/2025 17:07

Done - thanks for the info

Rightsraptor · 05/05/2025 16:59

Done.

Ramblingnamechanger · 05/05/2025 16:57

My MP is Alex Sobel. Gone a bit quiet lately but in the past was loudly stating there was no problem putting men in women’s prisons. Never replies to my messages so not hoping for much.

GoatsareGOAT · 05/05/2025 16:50

Thank you for flagging.
Done, personalised and fixed the uses of data as singular

Buuuummmppp

wonderingwhatsnext · 05/05/2025 16:48

Done. Thanks for highlighting it.

BumbleBeegu · 05/05/2025 16:38

Sent the email…my MP is a bloody dinosaur though so I doubt it will make a difference. We will see 🤞🥴

TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 05/05/2025 16:37

Done, as stated on the other thread.

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