The Tories will say what a woman is because it appeals to the far right. Nothing more, nothing less. If they are voted in because they know what a woman is they will quickly demonstrate how little they care about women as they become more far right. With concerns about Trump being re-elected in the US and our close relationship with the US, do you want to see a reversal on abortion here? Is that pro woman?
The Tories don’t give a flying fuck about women now. They have decimated public services most predominantly health and education. Areas with large amounts of women employed. They have cut maternity services to the bone. I gave birth in 2021, I was induced and told it was a 50 hour wait for delivery when I was already contracting and asking for pain relief. I had a 14 hr wait for some painkillers after giving birth because the midwives were so busy. This was at a large teaching hospital, god knows what the smaller ones are like.
Look at how the Tories fucked over the care industry during the pandemic. Again, a mostly female profession. Their underfunded childcare plans are causing nurseries to go bust. Who, 98% of the time, ends up quitting their job or going unpaid so they can look after the children because they earn less? Or who is not going back to work because their wage doesn’t cover the cost of childcare?Women. Look at how women had to hear devastating news about their pregnancies alone during the pandemic while the Tories did whatever the fuck they wanted. Anecdotally, I know of two women who had a stillbirth and NICU death last year. Maybe those baby loses would have happened if maternity services were properly funded but i wouldn’t be surprised if the data starts to show more of these tragedies as a result of underfunding.
Now, look at the education system. Again, when a child is struggling in main stream, who is it in the family that leaves the workplace to homeschool or goes and works nights? The woman. Who is it that usually leaves their employment to become a carer? The woman. What are Tories going to do to the welfare budget? Slash it, driving even more carers (predominantly women) into abject and lifelong poverty. Women’s health has never been taken seriously, with a crumbling NHS, what do you think will happen to the health of millions of women? It’ll be sidelined.
As inequality rises, women suffer. It infiltrates just about every area and in every way - health, education, employment, poverty, abuse. If you vote the far right in, the far right voice will get louder. Victim blaming will become more rampant. Violence against women and girls will rise because the far right hate women and girls. If you care about women’s rights, a man saying he’s a woman and entering women’s spaces is the smoke-screen so you don’t see how utterly fucked women are.
I’m not a labour voter by the way. I’m politically homeless and really struggling with who to vote for. I’m also not saying TWAW but I am saying you’re gullible if you think the Tories give a shit about women just because they say (not necessarily believe) TWAM.