The self-ID petition is now live!

[YesItsADebate]

This is the petition asking the government to consult with women on the proposals to enshrine gender identity in law.

Link: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/214118

6 pages of people getting excited that there are signatures for a petition where the demand is simply to be heard. How depressing a situation women are in. I wonder will the WEP being listened to count as listening to women. You couldn't make it up.

I'm working up the courage to share on Facebook...any tips? I shared on Twitter because I don't mind a bit of debate there, but FB is more personal somehow. My sis thinks I'm a terrible bigot for being GC & I suspect there may be others with a similar knee jerk reaction. I might share with a preface...anyone got a nice neat summary I can use?

600!

I added it to an existing thread in AIBU. I'm certainly not brave enough to start a thread in there.

Perhaps one in chat would also be good? Although not by me as I have an exemplary record of threads being ignored.

My Facebook reception has been largely positive (I haven’t exactly hidden my views)

I’ve had one comment from a friend of a friend about being a ‘fucking traitor’.

Fucks given: Zero

Petition signatures: Currently 610

Signed

Signed, and just emailed my MP who is Damian Hinds, the Minister of State for Education, asking how he feels about Mermaids going into schools.....

MaximumVolume this is what I put as my Facebook preface:

Please sign if you believe that women should have a say in who gets to access female-only spaces like changing rooms, toilets, domestic abuse refuges, hospital bays, school dorms, school trip accommodation, youth hostel dorms, rape crisis centres, prisons...

Added mine to make it 618

Truscum

I do like watching the numbers tick upward. And the map getting redder. It's very soothing.

629 now

Signed & thanks to everyone for making me much more aware & informed on this issue than I was.

Signed and shared. My DH has signed & shared with his friends.

I shared it on FB. A bit nervous! I prefaced it with a brief explanation and mentioned the Millwall thing and the articles in the DM and Times yesterday. So far I’m the only one in my constituency who has signed.

I have some gay cousins - both sexes. Wonder what they will make of it?

Signed

Signed. Thanks to whoever started it.

Please also share on twitter and @ people who may be interested in retweeting it and ask them to RT.

CiderwithBuda I think the impact on lesbians in particular of the TRA agenda hasn’t been well understood. The Twitter posts I’ve seen have been nothing short of a call to rape lesbians. It’s appalling.

Signed. Can share unfortunately due to work...

Signed

Signed.

Signed and shared re FB and Twitter.

Thanks @YesItsADebate and @TruScum (I feel very rude calling you scum) I've been brave and shared it on FB. Let's see what happens...

signed

Signed

666