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To think this is a vote winner (though not election clincher) from Sunak?

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Lion400 · 12/02/2024 22:36

Thought this was an impressive and clear response to the question, from Rishi. I suppose Labour will likely win by a landslide, because many people don’t care enough about women’s rights. Because I do care very much about women’s rights, I may vote Conservative for the first time ever (cue outrage for Lion). Will I regret it? Possibly. But I’d regret voting for Labour (aka women’s rights removers), even more.

https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1757143443111841900

https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1757143443111841900

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Lion400 · 13/02/2024 16:34

ChlorineSalt · 13/02/2024 16:31

By ‘outrage’, do you mean women disagreeing with you? Should women who do not agree with you, stay quiet and be meek and ladylike?

Yes yes, that is exactly what I meant. Your comprehension and deduction is second to none. Women should also only cross their legs at the ankles. Don’t speak unless spoken too. Smile sweetly at all times.

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IClaudine · 13/02/2024 16:35

NoMoreFalafelsForYou · 13/02/2024 16:33

By ‘outrage’, do you mean women disagreeing with you? Should women who do not agree with you, stay quiet and be meek and ladylike?

Yup
Let women speak!
No hang on, not you 😁

Ironically, some of us appear to be the wrong kind of woman, even though we are of the "cunty" variety.

neverbeenskiing · 13/02/2024 16:36

SoreAndTired1 · 13/02/2024 16:01

Oh here we go. Mortgage payments. The discussion is about womens rights to single sex spaces. Not mortgage payments. Not climate change. Not transport. Not taxes. Not any other whataboutery.

OP literally posed the question "AIBU to think this is a vote winner" so it isn't "whataboutery" to point out the many reasons why voters may not be swayed by Sunak's stance even if they agree with him on this one issue. These things are entirely relevant to the OP, not every post on the thread has to focus on toilets and changing rooms.

Lion400 · 13/02/2024 16:38

NoMoreFalafelsForYou · 13/02/2024 16:26

Oh, it's so nice to see this type of thread out in the open sometimes - when it's away from the echo chamber board you realise that there is still a little bit of sanity and hope left out there!
YABU.
Cloud cuckoo land if you think the Tories are going to be a good choice for women.

Sigh. Press Repeat.
It is more that Labour will be a bad choice for women’s rights.
I’m keeping it short. Because this has all been said already.

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lifeturnsonadime · 13/02/2024 16:39

Some classic TRA lines being used on here - just saying...

TheKeatingFive · 13/02/2024 16:39

The Labour policy is to protect single sex spaces for biological women.

They have never specified that they are talking about biological women.

Men with a GRC will fall under the heading of 'legal' women and they have said nothing about keeping them out of single sex spaces.

literalviolence · 13/02/2024 16:40

hotinhereandthere · 13/02/2024 16:33

Perhaps wait for Labour's Manifesto? And compare and contrast with the Tories' when they're out.

That will give some information. As does their continued refusal to apologise to Rosie Duffield for their harassment of her.

AdamRyan · 13/02/2024 16:41

literalviolence · 13/02/2024 16:32

So you've nothing to say in response to the women in prisons, refuges, sexual abuse survivors, religious minority? you don't care about them? they're just collateral damage in the important business of making dicks happy? If lavourbdont know who actually are women, these policies and every stat they produce are air. Of course violence won't dramatically reduce when they arrive actively campaigning for many women's voices to be ignored. Forcing women to use opposite aex pronouns makes rape reporting less likely. All these policies are marred by their women hating.

I was answering your question: Show some evidence that labour are doing anything to protect old fashioned cunty type women. You are deflecting because the answer didn't suit you.

This makes no sense: Of course violence won't dramatically reduce when they arrive actively campaigning for many women's voices to be ignored

If labour are more successful in locking up rapists and their plan to halve violence against women and girls is even partway successful women will benefit from it.

IClaudine · 13/02/2024 16:41

lifeturnsonadime · 13/02/2024 16:39

Some classic TRA lines being used on here - just saying...

Why do you do this? Why do you accuse women who challenge you of being TRAs/MRAs/men? I have been accused of this and so has Adam Ryan.

hotinhereandthere · 13/02/2024 16:41

TheKeatingFive · 13/02/2024 16:39

The Labour policy is to protect single sex spaces for biological women.

They have never specified that they are talking about biological women.

Men with a GRC will fall under the heading of 'legal' women and they have said nothing about keeping them out of single sex spaces.

We need to recognise that sex and gender are different – as the Equality Act does. We will make sure that nothing in our modernised gender recognition process would override the single-sex exemptions in the Equality Act. Put simply, this means that there will always be places where it is reasonable for biological women only to have access. Labour will defend those spaces, providing legal clarity for the providers of single-sex services.

AdamRyan · 13/02/2024 16:43

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NoMoreFalafelsForYou · 13/02/2024 16:46

Why do you do this? Why do you accuse people who challenge you of being TRAs/MRAs/men? I have been accused of this and so has Adam Ryan
They always do that, think it's to try and smear/cast doubt/insinuate bad intentions if you are posting against "group think."
Can't possibly be a woman, must be a TRA or a man.
It's a form of othering.
See also - Tone too "aggressive?! MAN! unless it's them and then it's but women don't have to be nice
🙄😁

ChlorineSalt · 13/02/2024 16:46

Lion400 · 13/02/2024 16:34

Yes yes, that is exactly what I meant. Your comprehension and deduction is second to none. Women should also only cross their legs at the ankles. Don’t speak unless spoken too. Smile sweetly at all times.

Edited

What did you mean by mentioning that there would be ‘outrage’, and then being triumphant that there had been said ‘outrage’? How did you want everyone to respond?

TheKeatingFive · 13/02/2024 16:47

Labour will defend those spaces, providing legal clarity for the providers of single-sex services.

I do not see that the evidence backs this up. Can you link to official comms from Labour that specifies the rights of biological women?

NoMoreFalafelsForYou · 13/02/2024 16:47

Deflection, ignore it
True, and yes should really

TooBigForMyBoots · 13/02/2024 16:48

SoreAndTired1 · 13/02/2024 15:53

Yet Rainbow Labour and Trans Labour are ON RECORD as saying they won't allow transwomen to be blocked from single sex spaces.

So, WHO THE F&CK DO WE BELIEVE? Starmer? Or Trans Labour?

Interesting that you avoid this question.

I'll tell you who you definitely can't believe: the Tory party.

They introduced Self ID to UK politics. They wrote genderwoo into their new Maternity Bill. They put a minister at the Despatch Box, who declared TWAW, TMAM when the HoL challenged the Tory Maternity Bill. They've repeatedly appointed TWAW believers to head our Education system. They appointed the world's first Trans MP as their representative to the Women's and Equalities Commision. They've drafted and repeatedly defended trans in the Conversion therapy ban.

No surprise really as they are the party of men's rights. Women have disproportionately suffered ever since they came to power.

Maybe Labour are fibbing. The Tories are definitely lying.

hotinhereandthere · 13/02/2024 16:49

TheKeatingFive · 13/02/2024 16:47

Labour will defend those spaces, providing legal clarity for the providers of single-sex services.

I do not see that the evidence backs this up. Can you link to official comms from Labour that specifies the rights of biological women?

I've linked to what they have released so far, but here it is again.

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

As for anything else, wait for the manifestos.

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

TheKeatingFive · 13/02/2024 16:50

I'll tell you who you definitely can't believe: the Tory party.

You don't have to believe either of them though ...

AdamRyan · 13/02/2024 16:52

NoMoreFalafelsForYou · 13/02/2024 16:47

Deflection, ignore it
True, and yes should really

I did not take my own advice at the weekend, it can be hard 🙈
Sometimes I wonder if its worth the harm to my mental health getting into these fights. Hopefully the GE will be in May and things will calm down a bit afterwards

MangoLlama · 13/02/2024 16:53

Lion400 · 12/02/2024 23:08

Why would I say that when it is not true?

I’m under no illusion that the tories care particularly about women. Will they make things better for women, doubt it.

However we know with certainty that Labour will make it worse for women. Biological men will be allowed in to domestic violence shelters, rape crises centres, women’s prisons, women’s and girls changing rooms, girls toilets, women’s sport. And more

Quoting labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities:

  • *“We need to recognise that sex and gender are different – as the Equality Act does. We will make sure that nothing in our modernised gender recognition process would override the single-sex exemptions in the Equality Act. “Put simply, this means that there will always be places where it is reasonable for biological women only to have access. Labour will defend those spaces, providing legal clarity for the providers of single-sex services.”

source: The Guardian

Labour vows to ‘modernise, simplify and reform’ Gender Recognition Act

Party chair says since act was passed by party in 2004, there is now a ‘much better understanding of the barriers trans people face’

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/24/labour-vows-to-modernise-simplify-and-reform-gender-recognition-act

TheKeatingFive · 13/02/2024 16:53

I've linked to what they have released so far, but here it is again.

What that states is ...

It will be easier than it is currently, for a man to get a GRC (one doctor can sign off on it).

That will then change his legal sex on official documents.

There is absolutely nothing there to suggest that single sex spaces will be protected for biological women.

AdamRyan · 13/02/2024 16:53

TheKeatingFive · 13/02/2024 16:47

Labour will defend those spaces, providing legal clarity for the providers of single-sex services.

I do not see that the evidence backs this up. Can you link to official comms from Labour that specifies the rights of biological women?

Did you not read the preceding line of the quote? Confused

TheKeatingFive · 13/02/2024 16:54

Did you not read the preceding line of the quote?

I did. See my response to another poster above

lifeturnsonadime · 13/02/2024 16:54

IClaudine · 13/02/2024 16:41

Why do you do this? Why do you accuse women who challenge you of being TRAs/MRAs/men? I have been accused of this and so has Adam Ryan.

Edited

I'm not accusing you or any other particular poster of anything.

It could of course, just be a coincidence that ardent Labour supporters and TRA tactics coincide.

I am talking about the following -

Sex based rights are a privileged belief
Focusing on toilets/ changing rooms
The younger generation don't care
Echo chamber
Don't like other women disagreeing with you, should we be meek and ladylike?

All tactics regularly used by TRAs.

literalviolence · 13/02/2024 16:54

AdamRyan · 13/02/2024 16:41

I was answering your question: Show some evidence that labour are doing anything to protect old fashioned cunty type women. You are deflecting because the answer didn't suit you.

This makes no sense: Of course violence won't dramatically reduce when they arrive actively campaigning for many women's voices to be ignored

If labour are more successful in locking up rapists and their plan to halve violence against women and girls is even partway successful women will benefit from it.

Please don't arrogantly assume you know my motivations. You do seem to struggle to hear what anyone else is saying but don't start imagining deflection just to hide that reality. My question was quoting a PP talking about women in prisons, refuges etc. Your answer did not address their needs. The second part made perfect sense. Re read it with much less arrogant belief in your own viewpoint and that might help.

Violence to women occurs because people see women as less, other, here to serve. Labour's 'women can have penises' places women in those exact positions. That view supports abuse to women.

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