@Ninkanink thank you
@merrymouse if you watch the debate "mother" is something of a compromise anyway as those seeking to further a certain type of trans ideology object to "woman" being used in pretty much any context! I shit you not!
It's a bloody disgrace the way things are going.
Women are being dismissed, oppressed and erased by this ideology and hardly anyone in authority is standing up for us. Every major political party has "drank the koolaid" and are losing the support of many women - and they don't care!
Myself and others are trying to get them to care by writing/emailing them and telling them how we feel but we are mostly being dismissed as transphobic.
Several of the lords speaking on this debate spoke of the many letters and emails they had received from gender critical women and women generally concerned about the language being debated.
A very very few others in the public eye "get it" and are brave enough to speak up - not easy especially for women in the public eye who are literally putting their personal safety at risk if they do so, it was mentioned in the debate of a particular uni lecturer who now basically has a protection detail necessary because of the valid threats she has received.
Yet these ideologists class misgendering as "literal violence" but defend those who threaten women with ACTUAL violence
That is what this issue is leading to, women literally under physical threat