"Handmaiden" MPs and the suffrage movement

[MiffedatMP]

I am a female retired trade union rep, and I spend my free time reading about working-class, Labour and feminist women's history.

I’ve been reading about a local woman who was once a suffragette and later a pioneer for the Labour Party. She endured multiple hunger strikes and horrific force-feedings to get women the vote. She survived, but at least three women died for the vote.

Today, the young female MP in my town (who also happens to be Labour) is actively supporting policies that erase the legal category of "woman."

It makes my blood boil. These careerist MPs enjoy the status and the salary that was paid for in the blood and broken health of our foremothers, yet they are the first to sell us out to "gender identity" ideology.

I’m thinking of sending her a very sharp email telling her that she is a disgrace to the suffragettes and indeed to the suffragists who fought for over 60 years to get women into political life.

If she wants to represent women, she should start by actually learning the history of the women who died to put her in that seat.

AIBU to think that female MPs who can’t/won’t define "woman", support the PB trial, and won't publicly stick up for the nurses and other women being harmed by gender ideology are essentially spitting on the graves of those women who fought so hard and so long for women to enter politics?

The party has never had a female leader so it's understandable why this Labour MP is self deprecating.

If you're against anything your MP is campaigning/voting for then you're absolutely entitled to voice your opinion, that's the beauty of democracy.

You may be better with facts and figures rather than telling her she's a disgrace to the suffragettes though.

Oh and PS in December 2025, the Labour NEC formally ruled that the 2026 Labour Women’s Conference will restrict the main hall and voting to biological women only. If her own party's governing body has admitted they cannot lawfully hold a "women’s conference" without a biological boundary, how can she justify "erasing" that same boundary for her constituents?

I hear what you’re saying about facts, but for me, the history is the fact.

When an MP ignores the law and the history of those who fought and died for her right to be an MP, I think 'disgrace' is a measured professional assessment, not just an insult.