Which female MPs are not 'out' as part of the "TW are women" brigade?

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Can we have a quick list? Eg if someone has seen them comment on twitter or in TV interviews one way or the other. Or if they have remained resolutely silent on the issue.

I'm in Scotland so while I am still particularly interested in Labour and Cons at the moment, I'm also interested about Scottish MPs/MSPs, if anyone knows.

I nearly didn't post this thread because on one hand I don't want to draw attention to them. I think (if I was an MP) in the current climate, I would stay quiet too as a gender critical woman. It's just too dangerous to speak out. I respect that.

But on the other hand, I want to know who is for women, against women, or sitting quietly (which I will assume means for women, but scared). I want to know if I can still respect the ones I used to respect as feminists, eg Harriet Harman, Yvette Cooper etc. At the minute, I feel like I don't know who to trust.

Ps, I'm politically homeless at the moment. I see no party that is 'safe' for women and women's rights. So I'm not asking in a way to pit one party against the other or anything.

David Davies write an excellent article on the GRA which I now can find, but if you Google his name and transgender lots of stuff comes up. He also hosted a meeting on it with Miranda Yardley and Stephanie Davies Arai among others.

anti trans rather than pro woman and I think the distinction is important

I agree. There’s a big difference between being pro-woman or anti-trans. I am uncomfortable with appearing to have to be allies with some of the Christian Right. I just want my democratic right to debate the GRA.

Jess said she supported the women's place demands - I am surprised about Ann Sinnot - I don't think that's correct

pisacake you forgot Justine Greening - particularly egregious because, as a lesbian, she is choosing to ignore the abuse and erasure that lesbians are suffering at the hands of the TRA movement.

I looked at Ann Sinnot's twitter, from what she's retweeted she seems to get it MsD.

I wasn't aware of her before.

There was a blonde female Tory MP interviewed on election night...in her fifties..... She was hilarious and straight talking. Just can't remember her name. Had never heard of her before.... Anyone know who i mean? She seens like she would be against the GRA

TheXXFactor: "Stella Creasy has told constituents who have raised concerns about self-ID that she is fully on board with it and implied that they are bigots for questioning it."

Am massively disappointed in Stella Creasey. I had thought better of her. I didn't have a particular view on Angela Rayner but she seems to have gone overboard in her adoration for Lily Madigan. (Incidentally, what is it about the very act of saying that you're trans that makes people lose their critical judgement? Owen Jones is fawning all over Shon Faye this morning - I mean, Shon Faye? Really? Couldn't he have found someone with a bit more plausibility?)

At the moment, the only people speaking out against the TRA agenda are feminists, Christians and right-wing columnists. What I long to happen is for some Muslim parents to voice the same concerns as the handful of Christians who have spoken out. While certain people on the left are quick to accuse Christians of being "bigots", they are frightened of being labelled as Islamophobic. In fact, if there's one thing worse than being thought transphobic amongst sanctimonious twerps like Owen Jones, it's being regarded as Islamophobic. I'd like to see how he's going to square that particular circle.

Anna Soubry!

@HTKB Anna Soubry?

Sorry, x post!

Thanks everyone.

It would only take 1 ambitious, clever, sympathetic female MP with a good track record of voting for equality (i.e. demonstrably not a bigot) to get the bit between their teeth and fight on this platform for the tide to turn, I think. Cynically you could even say a stellar career could be built on it. Anna would be perfect if only her majority was a bit bigger.

NC for this but a regular poster - have changed name as am going to post Tweets which are identifiable.

I tweeted my MP - Jo Swinson - about this. I asked her for the Lib Dem stance on the "choose your sex" debate at the time of the gender recognition bill, saying that I believed sex was biological fact and not up for debate. Interested in her response as both my MP, and also as her former role was Equalities Minister and she has spoken up a lot about girls' rights, gender stereotypes, shared parental leave etc.

Her response was that she believes in "respecting the individual". and that the biological facts of sex were "received wisdom".

My follow up : "Respecting individuals - definitely. But you can do that without eroding women's safe spaces and decimating female sport."

Her: "cases that require a difficult balance, but also that with sensitivity it is possible"

So yeah, disappointingly she appears to be on the bandwagon.

How depressing that we can only think of 2 (David Davies and Caroline flint) and a half (jess).
What the hell is going on?

I'm not really surprised moderate Muslims are keeping their heads down though tbh. They are already responsible for all patriarchy everywhere all the time...

Anna Soubry is already doing amazing stuff leading the Tory rebellion against Brexit. I'd be very surprised if she wasn't on our side on this one, but I suspect she doesn't have the stomach, energy, or capacity for hate mail to fight on two fronts simultaneously.

It would only take 1 ambitious, clever, sympathetic female MP with a good track record of voting for equality (i.e. demonstrably not a bigot) to get the bit between their teeth and fight on this platform for the tide to turn, I think. Cynically you could even say a stellar career could be built on it.

All those women are keeping their heads well down because they have weighed up the risk of supporting feminists vs patriarchy and decided to go with patriarchy. It's an entirely cynical and careerist move.

What about the Lords? Any possibilities there? We need someone brave enough and disinterested enough in career terms to get the ball rolling.

All those women are keeping their heads well down because they have weighed up the risk of supporting feminists vs patriarchy and decided to go with patriarchy. It's an entirely cynical and careerist move.

It is. And exacerbated in Labour because anyone gender critical and not in the Corbyn camp is terrified of deselection.

Yes I agree (and I say that as a Corbyn supporter). It is a problem.

Maybe we should be writing to Corbyn?

Yes here's Jo eating Madigan's bullshit

twitter.com/joswinson/status/937995014575140865

Corbyn is completely anti-women on this.

Weird, because he thought women-only carriages on trains would keep us safe from penises. And yet seems happy for penises to be free to wander into those carriages.

fern I hear what you're saying and I don't disagree. I'm just saying I sympathise with them not wanting rape, violence and murder threats, or to lose their jobs (and thus giving us no voice ever again). I hope they are waiting until they are sure that there are enough of them thinking the same way and they can all speak out together. Until then, we need to keep pushing forward at the grassroots level.

It shouldn't be like this though, I agree.