Starmer, JKR, what's most important to most women?

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In my more than 60 years, decades of being a single working parent, many experiences of being on the bones of my arse, Labour Party policies have made huge beneficial differences in my day-to-day life. Worrying if there is a man in the next toilet or feeling uncomfortable with a trans woman has literally never been on my radar. If I'm making a decision about voting for the politician who can bring about the greatest good for the greatest number, it's Starmer every time. I wish JKR would just pipe down.

In tears over this. How effing awful. So sorry you lost your group.

Ah the old "ladyfeelz".

How do you think and feel like a woman? I'm asking as a woman.

Not sure about that given how threads go on other issues

But JKR is excellent on this despite ruffling a few Labour feathers

You have 100% made my point for me. Thank you.

I have two daughters aged two and four months and I agree with the OP.

At this particular moment there are more important issues that need to be dealt with.

I'm seriously scared for our future if the tories get another term.

If we can ban trans women from women’s spaces in case they are predators, can we ban men from children’s spaces in case they are pedos?

I see where you’re coming from, but I hope you think again. I feel strongly about the rights of women, but more strongly about children eating.

Despite their failing on this issue, I think Labour need to be in power.

Why ask on here then? If you thoughy the answer was going to be totally predictable due to us all apparently earning too much money!

Firstly, nonsense.

However, please don't be under any illusions. It is the most vulnerable women who suffer from the erosion of single sex spaces.

Prisoners, domestic violence victims, those who have been raped, the sick and disabled, orthodox religious.

Also sportswomen and lesbians, though I wouldn't classify them as vulnerable in the same way.

Yeah, that’s not answered my question though. Was he a woman when he raped me? He’s known he was a woman since he was a young child, so surely under your reasoning he was a woman raping me?
And comparing it to a gay black man mugging me is false equivalence. If the gay black man was pretending to be a white heterosexual man in order to gain access to more people to mug, then that would be more relevant.

Yabu to try and minimise the discussion to a- only your experience and b- to only be about single sex toilets - it is much wider than that.

The majority of women here think YABU but we are in the most vulnerable groups - disabled, incarcerated, in need of safeguarding - and we are the ones being ignored.

It makes absolutely no rational sense.

No, TW rarely, if ever, pass.

Lucky you. I have. He was masturbating.

Whilst it's great that you haven't had any issues with transwomen in your lifetime, you're missing the point.
There's a lot of things I haven't experienced in life, but that doesn't mean I can't see how badly they can affect other people.

I'm trans and I don't regret that, but I stand with women and support women because I know how it feels to be afraid for my safety, I've been through trauma and I've genuinely not known what was going to happen to me. Whether you've been through similar or not shouldn't matter - these things should never sit right with anyone.

I hear you OP, but only because Labour will lose votes because of this and I agree with your first sentence. If the tories got in again because of this it would be beyond horrific. Looks like that won't happen though.

But in principle JKR should not pipe down because she is right!

I'm with JK Rowling.

She has consistently done something.

And she's absolutely right to talk loudly about the threats to the safeguarding of children and women from a lunatic ideology.

Starmer is either a coward, or muddle-headed, or in someone's pocket.

Most men are not rapists.

But all rapists are men.

Why nonsense straw men arguments? 🙄

Much closer to home - as 'TW' are men, why wouldn't the normal rules we apply to men not apply to them?

We have safeguarding protocols in place for children’s. Staff are DBS checked for starters.

All women had was a social contract which is being aggressively eroded by trans activists.

JKR literally co-founded the charity Lumos and established the Volant Charitable Trust, named after her mother.

She's providing support for the most vulnerable children in society.

Rowling's charitable giving centres on medical causes and supporting at-risk women and children.

Honestly, you'd think - what more can she do????

YABU to tell a woman to "pipe down'.

No one has explained why its so important that women must give up our rights.

No, not having that. Lumos reunites children with families. PEN - defends freedom of speech which she did again with her message to Salman Rushdie after his attack; she has continually given generously of her time and effort to children, working to promote literacy and health - nobody else wrote them an entire book during Covid.

The charities she has donated to are listed here.

Labour will 100 per cent gain power, which as far as I'm concerned gives me the freedom to prioritise the issue that is most important to me with my vote (if I can find a candidate worth voting for).