Baroness Falkner: Labour Party has abandoned women and feminism

I hope that eventually Falkner will become remembered for the hero she is, and more important than just her very great significance as a GC voice in government.

She demonstrated how to bring a fanatically captured organization back in line with its defined objectives and make it fit for purpose again. Her accomplishments are practically unique. Look at the BBC (also Tory appointments tasked with overhaul, the NHS, OBR, or Trump's DOGE). Her work was the work of someone unafraid, with a high degree of personal integrity and a commitment to organization function, not just libertarian ideology. There are countless organizations which need this treatment and Falker's role is a template for how to accomplish it.

I imagine we’ll find out pretty quickly what Mary Ann Stephenson is made of because I’m guessing that one of the first things she will be asked to do by this government is to take another look at that guidance and see if she can make it a little less, you know, complicated.

I could be wrong of course.

This is an amazing article, thank you

what a fantastic woman!

Totally agree.

And for all I know given politics and saving face, if as I suggest MAS is not as confrontational, she may be allowed to say things.

But whether this will make those with the power "do the rights thing" and formally implement the law as now ruled by the Supreme Court,

Whoever is in post should be supported by MPs, not undermined because the politicians are too busy virtue signaling.

I very much doubt she will ever take a stand in the way Baroness Falkner was prepared to do.

Maybe not, but it shouldn't be this hard, should it? To have to fight every inch of the way, against this baloney?

re earlier comments about was Labour ever in support of feminism? No, but what they did have have women MPs who were committed to women's rights. eg Sex Discrimination Act, Equal Pay Act etc..

But dont forget many of those older Labour women MPs were part of NCCL who said that women's groups shouldn't be women only because that wasn't equality! And not forgetting their sorded support, which they later tried to play down, of PIE etc..

There is a huge difference between saying women should have rights is apsire to male standards, as opposed to being a feminist which is about having a women centred view of the world, meaning that 99.9% of the time women are in conflict with the ruling sex class.

There were a couple of threads about MAS after her appointment and then the total disgrace that was the WEC questioning of her. ie sneering. They concluded she shouldn't be appointed, but were over ridden by Minister for Women.

But ... although MAS was accused of being anti trans, in fact the letter that was used to smear her was about the right to free speech.

I very much doubt she will ever take a stand in the way Baroness Falkner was prepared to do. (I am so in aware of her I feel I have to use her title rather than presume to use her name! )

What a wonderful woman. We are in her debt.

Absolutely. Let the Beaumont Society Speak!

This

its important to not shine any light on the impact of gender ideology because the more people know the less supportive they will be.

Or this:

Do we actually know injecting bleach doesn't cure covid? Shouldn't we experiment on a lot of children first, to make absolutely sure?

It’s not her that is clueless.

@DecorMadness has it. The TRA know full well that any campaign for new laws to erode women's rights via some Amendment will be unpopular. Putting it diplomatically. So whining and smears will be the tactics.
Until that blessed day that Zack has his photo taken outside no 10....

Why do you think they're so keen on girls being compelled to share everything with boys? That girls must be taught that they have no right to boundaries / single sex spaces? That men from the Beaumont society must be given access to every single sex space for girl and women?

Can't wait to hear more from them weighing in on just who should be allowed to watch teenage girls changing.

We need to start highlighting just what they're demanding and who it is they're expecting to give up their rights to privacy and safety. And get clear explanations from Labour about why they're supporting this.
Make them talk.

Oh, the irony.

This should age well:

The Beaumont Society, the longest-established transgender support group in the UK, said of the decision of the NFWI and Girlguiding: “This is a backward step in both the law and in society and will, in time be found to be as unsupportable as similar pseudosciences such as vaccines causing autism, or phrenology, or polygenism or injecting bleach to cure Covid.”

Well that’s good about the new appointment but I hope Dr Stephenson is actually supported to lead. Seems like bad omens for her already

The new chair is dr Mary Ann Stephenson. The usual suspects protested loudly about her appt because she'd been seen supporting gender critical opinions and the women and equalities committee wrote a sad faced letter saying they couldn't support her appt www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/31/mary-ann-stephenson-confirmed-as-ehrc-chair-despite-mps-objections

so I think she'll be fine

What an admirable and impressive woman she is.

I am not convinced either that the Labour Party is the party of feminism. No party is.

Good for her, however. Her successor will not be as brave because if her leadership was supported now she would not be leaving or giving this interview. There will be a move to get someone who is trans or trans friendly.

She's been fantastic, not cowering in the face of extreme hate from the men wanting to decriminalise voyeurism and indecent exposure.
Very pleased she's in the HoL where there are a large number of wise peers supporting women's rights and the need to safeguard children.