So if the trans supporters have got this far by infiltration and persistence then women need to not walk away from Labour.
Unplug, yes, this is part of my point. I don't know what women have to gain by exiling themselves from all the major political parties, although I absolutely understand why they'd want to.
I had an interesting conversation with my dad the other week about political organising (he has been active in the Australian Labor Party for more than 40 years), and he made the point that the political direction of any party or organisation is shaped by those who turn up to meetings, press their friends into going, form voting blocs, etc. It doesn't necessarily reflect the will of the majority of party members - just the most persistent ones. He was saying this as part of a larger point about how extremist movements, on the left and the right, gain power.
I realise that I'm speaking as an outsider to UK politics, but I wonder if it would not be better for Labour women who oppose gender identity doctrine to organise and strategise rather than leave. Like, say, form a bloc ('Fair Play for Women'? SexNotGender'?) and put pressure on local branches and the party at large to recognise the legal and social importance of bio sex, oppose the medicalisation of children, etc. Arrange private meetings with MPs who might be sympathetic. Hold public meetings like the one at the Labour conference (We need to talk about Gender). Of course TRAs and their supporters will try to shut all this down, have women expelled, and will get very, very nasty in their tactics against individual women.
I'm not underestimating the risks the people's livelihoods, safety and emotional wellbeing at all here. And I realise it's not my place to lecture anybody about what they should do. I'm just musing over tactics. Women are losing SO badly here, and one of the reasons is the TRAs are highly organised and completely ruthless in pursuit of their agenda, and we are not. At the moment the UK is at the centre of resistance to gender identity ideology. It's the only place where there is ANY mainstream public debate happening. If UK women are able to stop the passage of the GRA, this will represent a huge shift in momentum against the worldwide march of the trans movement steamrolling over women's rights. It could change the conversation in all Anglophone countries, and others as well.
Transwomen are less likely to be tied down with childcare/ default parenting than many women are (if the transwomen even have children)
Yes this is a HUGE part of why women are losing too. Most women are too busy with care work, be it child care, housework or elder care (often all three) to match the huge number of hours that obsessive men can dedicate to this issue. Hell, most women are too busy to even NOTICE that this is going on. (As I type this, my toddler has woken up and is calling for me!) Incidentally, that's one reason why I NEVER refer to trans-identified males as 'gender non-conforming' or say that they are 'living as women' or taking on the 'feminine gender role'. Because they don't. Like most men, they are oblivious to the fact that 'living as a woman' in every society involves shouldering the burden of care for others and putting others' needs before your own, and the fact that NO ONE expects them to shows that no one really believes they are women, either.