Hello all.
This is my first post to the Feminist boards - indeed my first post after a gap of many years posting anywhere on Mumsnet.
I've been a lurker and follower of the conversations here for a good year or so now, reading and learning around the issues of transgender as a feminist issue.
I've been moved by the thread earlier where a poster had written to their MP, and also by it being IWD, to actually do something tangible. I guess I feel frustrated and powerless as this TRA movement is gaining traction and political influence and I see women being silenced and worried, afraid even.
So I've drafted a letter to my MP (member of the Government but not high profile or a Grandee) to highlight a few concerns I have and ask for some clarity on the Government's position and timetable. I'm keen to send it.
I feel if enough MPs are being questioned about this and hearing real constituency concerns - I've said it will be perhaps the main criteria for my local and national voting decisions in any forthcoming elections - that it might just get on the radar of a few more people.
However, I'm very anxious about the potential for my communications with him to become viewable public data at some point. I'm not sure whether MPs have to record or register copies of constituency communications, where my name and address are accessible too. Can anyone advise?
I've looked at his website and it doesn't provide any information that helps. I feel both angry and embarrassed that I may be in a position where I need to email him first to ask him these privacy questions/concerns before I dare email him my actual letter.
What has it come to when I am afraid that approaching my elected representative in our Parliament could, at some point now or in the future, pose a threat to my safety or my employment? Another way in which people are being silenced.