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To not vote Labour because of their abhorrent views on the female sex?

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Lion400 · 05/02/2024 18:43

Starmer cannot represent women, he can’t even define us. Questioning a trans person is a hate crime, but misogyny is not. Sorry Labour, you’ve lost my vote. Have they lost anyone else’s??

‘On trans ideology, the vast majority of voters, and certainly a majority of traditional Labour voters from working class backgrounds, tend to cast a sceptical eye on the tenets of an ideological movement that asserts that biological men must be accepted as women – and be offered similar rights and access to women’s spaces and sports as women – simply by asserting their new status’

Transgender ideology has created the biggest medical scandal of our generation

Vulnerable young people who transitioned before they were ready are paying a high price for this disastrous project

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/04/transgender-ideology-biggest-scandal-of-our-generation/

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lifeturnsonadime · 07/02/2024 15:58

IClaudine · 07/02/2024 15:54

What did she do?

She wrote an article about Debbie Hayton a self confessed AGP.

She used female pronouns about Debbie which some people objected too and some people also felt that she downplayed the impact on Stephanie, Debbie's wife and their children.

Referring to this has nothing to do with the point of this thread though. That Labour is not doing enough to protect women's rights.

Yet another irrelevant deflection.

literalviolence · 07/02/2024 16:00

AdamRyan · 07/02/2024 15:47

No. I believe trans women are males, but the trans identity is something they should be proud of. I'm happy to use preferred pronouns etc. I think the current legal situation is fine, as long as employers and service providers use the single sex exemption in the EA effectively.

I'm vehemently self ID because I think its a charter for abusive men.

I think I'm pretty much in line with the majority view. And I've fully thought it through so theres really no point firing questions at me. Just respect my opinion please.

as long as you respect other's opinions of course. mine is that it's an abusive act for any male to demand to be called she. And that Kier Starmer is a dangerous misogynist.

AdamRyan · 07/02/2024 16:01

Yeah, let's not talk about how some GC Ultras attack other women for wrong think, in a manner very reminiscent of TRA #nodebate. That's boring.
It's much more useful to make out Labour are the ones who hate women, when they try to navigate a democratic way through this absolute shitshow

IClaudine · 07/02/2024 16:02

Starmer is a dangerous misogynist? Examples please.

literalviolence · 07/02/2024 16:02

AdamRyan · 07/02/2024 15:31

Or maybe it'll be interesting to lurkers to reflect on the real distress Sunaks "at least we know what a woman is" approach causes, when they see him deploy it in front of a grieving mother.

The complete lack of empathy being deployed speaks volumes

As does the complete lack of empathy required to be a TRA or say that TWAW or to say that women have penises. I hope people are also reflecting on the real distress Starmer causes to the traumatised women he wants to withdrew support services feom or lock up with males.

literalviolence · 07/02/2024 16:03

IClaudine · 07/02/2024 16:02

Starmer is a dangerous misogynist? Examples please.

women can have penises. hounding Rosie Duffield. It shouldn't be said that only women have cervixes.

lifeturnsonadime · 07/02/2024 16:04

AdamRyan · 07/02/2024 16:01

Yeah, let's not talk about how some GC Ultras attack other women for wrong think, in a manner very reminiscent of TRA #nodebate. That's boring.
It's much more useful to make out Labour are the ones who hate women, when they try to navigate a democratic way through this absolute shitshow

You won't find that I have attacked anyone.

It is still completely irrelevant to the fact that Labour doesn't want to do the right thing by women by keeping women's single sex spaces free from males and protecting children.

BIossomtoes · 07/02/2024 16:04

I'm willing to bet Janice Turner has done more for women's rights than anyone posting on this thread. Yet some GC people are throwing her to the wolves for "wrongthink". That's not any feminism I recognise.

Same. I have huge respect for Janice. I’ve just caught up with the hate fest on X. Fortunately I imagine she’s tough enough not to let it get to her.

literalviolence · 07/02/2024 16:05

AdamRyan · 07/02/2024 16:01

Yeah, let's not talk about how some GC Ultras attack other women for wrong think, in a manner very reminiscent of TRA #nodebate. That's boring.
It's much more useful to make out Labour are the ones who hate women, when they try to navigate a democratic way through this absolute shitshow

It's not either or you know. Labour can just choose to stand up for what's right. They will make some enemies of TRAs but that is only stopping them if they choose to let it.

lifeturnsonadime · 07/02/2024 16:06

Using Janice Turner as a Squirrel in the last 3 pages of a thread about Labour failing women is so fascinating.

IClaudine · 07/02/2024 16:06

It is still completely irrelevant to the fact that Labour doesn't want to do the right thing by women by keeping women's single sex spaces free from males

But Labour has said they want to preserve single sex spaces.

literalviolence · 07/02/2024 16:09

IClaudine · 07/02/2024 16:06

It is still completely irrelevant to the fact that Labour doesn't want to do the right thing by women by keeping women's single sex spaces free from males

But Labour has said they want to preserve single sex spaces.

We can't be back here again, surely? their definition of single sex includes males with GRC and possibly who want one, or don't want one but consider themselves a woman. Aka they are mixed sex.

lifeturnsonadime · 07/02/2024 16:09

IClaudine · 07/02/2024 16:06

It is still completely irrelevant to the fact that Labour doesn't want to do the right thing by women by keeping women's single sex spaces free from males

But Labour has said they want to preserve single sex spaces.

You clearly haven't read my posts which have set out why they can't do that under existing laws (that they introduced).

And why, unless they commit to amendment of either the GRA or the EquA to make it clear that legal females are excluded from the defintion of female under the EquA, their commitment is an empty promise.

They could so easily put this right.

They know what they have to do, but don't.

BIossomtoes · 07/02/2024 16:09

I hope people are also reflecting on the real distress Starmer causes to the traumatised women he wants to withdrew support services feom or lock up with males.

There are very few support services left to withdraw, the Tories have cut them all. Oh and they’ve also allowed men into women’s prisons.

lifeturnsonadime · 07/02/2024 16:11

BIossomtoes · 07/02/2024 16:09

I hope people are also reflecting on the real distress Starmer causes to the traumatised women he wants to withdrew support services feom or lock up with males.

There are very few support services left to withdraw, the Tories have cut them all. Oh and they’ve also allowed men into women’s prisons.

And Labour's Nandy thinks that transgender rapists should still be in women's prisons even after all of the harms of the last few years!

LWSnow · 07/02/2024 16:13

AdamRyan · 07/02/2024 15:47

No. I believe trans women are males, but the trans identity is something they should be proud of. I'm happy to use preferred pronouns etc. I think the current legal situation is fine, as long as employers and service providers use the single sex exemption in the EA effectively.

I'm vehemently self ID because I think its a charter for abusive men.

I think I'm pretty much in line with the majority view. And I've fully thought it through so theres really no point firing questions at me. Just respect my opinion please.

No need to be snippy.

BIossomtoes · 07/02/2024 16:13

I’ve read every one of your posts @lifeturnsonadime. To be fair if you’ve read one you’ve read them all. The constant repetition doesn’t make them any more convincing. There are two deeply entrenched positions on this thread. It boils down to those of us who believe the Labour shadow cabinet and those who don’t. Nobody’s going to change their mind.

IClaudine · 07/02/2024 16:14

lifeturnsonadime · 07/02/2024 16:11

And Labour's Nandy thinks that transgender rapists should still be in women's prisons even after all of the harms of the last few years!

I don't think she specified rapists, to be fair, but I don't particilarly agree with her on this.

LWSnow · 07/02/2024 16:15

IClaudine · 07/02/2024 16:14

I don't think she specified rapists, to be fair, but I don't particilarly agree with her on this.

She was definitely talking about child rapists

LWSnow · 07/02/2024 16:16

Here

To not vote Labour because of their abhorrent views on the female sex?
lifeturnsonadime · 07/02/2024 16:21

BIossomtoes · 07/02/2024 16:13

I’ve read every one of your posts @lifeturnsonadime. To be fair if you’ve read one you’ve read them all. The constant repetition doesn’t make them any more convincing. There are two deeply entrenched positions on this thread. It boils down to those of us who believe the Labour shadow cabinet and those who don’t. Nobody’s going to change their mind.

I wouldn't have to repeat it so often if people didn't keep making things up about the Labour Party position.

That you are not convinced by the actual wording of legislation drafted by the Labour Party and the judgement of Lady Haldene is interesting. I don't make the laws. I'm simply describing them.

literalviolence · 07/02/2024 16:22

BIossomtoes · 07/02/2024 16:09

I hope people are also reflecting on the real distress Starmer causes to the traumatised women he wants to withdrew support services feom or lock up with males.

There are very few support services left to withdraw, the Tories have cut them all. Oh and they’ve also allowed men into women’s prisons.

I can't believe how circular these conversations are. We know that You don't have some special insight here. all parties have let us down. Labour, however refuse to acknowledge that and indeed maintain that their antiwomen stance is some sort of progress. It sick.

literalviolence · 07/02/2024 16:24

LWSnow · 07/02/2024 16:16

Here

Yes. why is it women don't belive labour's hald hearted declarations re women's spaces???

BIossomtoes · 07/02/2024 16:29

lifeturnsonadime · 07/02/2024 16:21

I wouldn't have to repeat it so often if people didn't keep making things up about the Labour Party position.

That you are not convinced by the actual wording of legislation drafted by the Labour Party and the judgement of Lady Haldene is interesting. I don't make the laws. I'm simply describing them.

Nobody’s made anything up except you. From the horse’s mouth.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/24/labour-will-lead-on-reform-of-transgender-rights-and-we-wont-take-lectures-from-the-divisive-tories

Labour will lead on reform of transgender rights – and we won’t take lectures from the Tories | Anneliese Dodds

We will modernise, simplify and reform gender recognition law. Our policies won’t please everyone but we will do what’s right

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/24/labour-will-lead-on-reform-of-transgender-rights-and-we-wont-take-lectures-from-the-divisive-tories

EasternStandard · 07/02/2024 16:35

LWSnow · 07/02/2024 16:16

Here

These statements blimey

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