Hello,
I've name changed from my normal Mumsnet name!
I was the Lib Dem woman who spoke up about my experience of being hounded off the Lib Dem feminist's facebook group (an unofficial not official party page) for just pointing out that TERF was a misogynist term.
I honestly didn't feel brave speaking, I know that there was a lot of Labour and trade unionists people there and why not, because they started the discussion and they brought women together to discuss it? I think women are much more used to organising as a group in those organisations so it makes sense that they would be the ones to start A Woman's Place and I am so grateful to them that they have.
I've always been on the militant feminist wing of the Lib Dems 
and always been very frustrated to their approach to women's representation which is only now getting addressed in the party, because we lost ALL our female MPs when we were routed in the 2015 GE.
I've always known that sexism and inequality is structural, that I can't just decide that the patriarchy isn't going to make any difference to me and my life, that the difference between a woman who succeeds and one who doesn't is not down to the first one just trying harder. I am an extraordinarily privileged woman in this world and that is mostly, in fact totally, down to my good luck, not down to anything I have done to deserve it.
So, whilst my centrist political views around most party politics were in the minority, my views on women and the root of their oppression was largely in line with any socialist or trade union feminist. And in my experience of being shouted down for defending feminists by young men in a face book group that badges itself as feminist I was definitely not alone in that room; it was much easier to speak up in that room yesterday than it was on the facebook group of my own party!
I did not go there as a representative of the Lib Dems but as a very concerned woman, who happened to be a member of the Lib Dems. I watch with horror at what is going on in the Labour, Green and Women's Equality parties, I know that it is no different in the Lib Dems.
I do think (obviously) that it would be great if A Woman's Place could be truly cross party because I want to be part of it and I want more women who are Lib Dems or Conservatives, as well as from the Green, Labour and WEP parties to be able to come and talk about how to address this issue without being called a bigot.
Because, to my mind the issue of women as a sex and their erasure from public discourse and public policy making has to be addressed first. If you cannot see sex, you cannot see sexism, you cannot define the oppression and you cannot do anything about it.
Only if you can see and count women and witness what is actually happening to them as a result of their biological sex can you go on to discuss the best way to relieve that oppression. We may believe there are different things to do about women's poverty, health, the pay gap, VAWG and sexual abuse but we can't do anything if we can't see women.
I think Self ID will be apocalyptic for women. As was said at the meeting, all mainstream political parties are letting us down on this, we all of us feel politically homeless (or at least I do) and we need to come together as women to fight this threat to us as a group.
Sorry, that was a bit long but I didn't want to lurk or chip in under a different name pretending not to be me!
Thank you for all those who spoke, organised it and came to it - the banner put up made me feel a bit emotional tbh - it was a great evening, I had to leave a bit early for my train but I am so glad that I went.