Guess how I got suspended from the Labour Party?

[IAmDavidLewis]

Well, one of the weirdest days in my life concluded with me receiving a letter informing me of my immediate suspension from the Labour Party. They believe I may have breached the rules by subverting the intention of All Women Shortlists, Women’s Officers or minimum quotas for women. Unfortunately, this does mean that my political ambitions are on hold for a while. I shall of course be continuing to self-identify as a woman every Wednesday, as that is my gender identity...

I have to say a huge thanks to @namechangeah for all her help, guidance and, more importantly, proof-reading! I wouldn’t have gotten to this point without it. I’d also like to thank everyone for their support today. I hope this has helped a bit.

And the Telegraph called me an “activist”! Achievement unlocked

I'd really love this to push transcultists to answer fully why David isn't a woman yet others (Heather Peto, Lily Madigan, Pippa Bunce et al) are.
The only difference I can see is clothes, surely one of the main UK political parties in the country isn't so regressive and stupid as to make policies based on people's clothes? Except they're doing a great show of proving that they are.
Good luck today David, let your womanly woman-ness shine through 💁

Cheer up love

Thanks for the lolz and for highlighting the complete lunacy of labours stance. Can you imagine the meeting they must have had before binning you. Imagining you, an obvious bloke in their little club, doing man things and bring manny. Awful.

Who is that policeman who is sometimes a woman and sometimes a man, and performs their duties as both?
That would be a good precedent to cite.

This only didn’t go ahead because you were in the papers. If you kept quiet, you would have progressed. What does it say about their policy? How can they say the application is not genuine if the applicant doesn’t tell them himself??

Good morning Sister David. I hope you are basking in your womanliness this good Wednesday.

Thanks for your efforts to highlight the shitshow that is transactivism.

Sadly Labour is finished.

It's time that the moderates in the Labour Party desist with the arse covering and start a new party before the reputation of anything remotely left wing has been completely plundered by the authoritarian, regressive policies of Momentum. It really is shocking.

Thank you David, my Wednesday sister. You make me want to sing "For she's a jolly good fellow!"

Now with a suspension, the Party will presumably need to define what a “self-identified woman” is, in order to show that I am not one.

I think LP likely to tie themselves up in serious knots if they try this. I already think it's outrageous that they say you are any less a woman than other self identifying women. Also, surely the point of SELF-id is that nobody other than that person gets a say.

I also think it's totally unreasonable of LP to put a system in place so open to abuse (whilst saying it's all fine), and then whine about the consequences. The burden is on them to make things clear, not on everyone else to just magically know what the spirit of the AWS is, when woman is defined as anyone who says they are one (except David, who doesn't count because reasons).

Although they'll probably get away with denying you your womanhood, they'll be massacred by TRAs if they ever do it to anyone else.

TheUterati - this one?

OP: 'Now with a suspension, the Party will presumably need to define what a “self-identified woman” is, in order to show that I am not one. That, I believe, is progress.'

All the LOLS for this. The only difference between David and Lily Madigan, as far as I can see, is that David has publicly admitted he's taking the mick.

Brava!
Take this opportunity to get your colours done. Why not? You're a girl!

he’s asked if I would be prepared to come in and give a talk on the concerns of gender Id issues for women to the other councillors in the area. how completely brilliant. Well done.

Thanks David.

What did they say on Radio 4 I missed it

Thanks David.

Now with a suspension, the Party will presumably need to define what a “self-identified woman” is, in order to show that I am not one.

They need to do this but seeing as though they haven't been able define women, I can't see it happening anytime soon.

Also it may have been mentioned elsewhere but the Twitter accounts for Venice Allan mayday4women Miranda Yardley and a few others have all been suspended.

Councillors are key to this. They run the facilities like public pools and toilets etc.

I missed this last night!

Thank you for making a stand, my Wednesday Sister.

And what everyone else has said on this thread. It is so important, and I don't think the wider world has got it, and for some reason has no idea of the depths that people will go to subvert laws like this (without letting anyone know that is what they are doing).

Thank you

No no THIS is the policeman

RadicalFern: " Also, surely the point of SELF-id is that nobody other than that person gets a say."

Exactly. Who'd have thought that Corbyn and his acolytes could be so dim as to not see this coming?

It reminds me very slightly of those C of E schools that prioritise admission to the children of practising Christians. The rules encourage non-Christians to lie by attending church, having their children christened and so on. This way non-Christians are indistinguishable from Christians - until one of them admits to what they're doing, and then they're presumably out on their ear. So a man hellbent on abusing self-ID can do it quite easily, whereas a man who admits that that is what he is doing is disciplined.

Sarah do you have any details ?

Brava, sister!

Honestly, I learned my politics at the knee of old-school Labour women, mostly now dead. They are currently spinning in their graves at the absolute shitshow that the current Labour leadership is making of the entire Labour party.

redshoeblueshoe. No sorry. Just went for a browse this morning and they are all suspended.

Then I noticed this thread
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3256163-Anyone-else-having-trouble-with-Twitter

Another Thank you from me David. Thank you for taking a stand and proving how ridiculous this whole thing is.

Hope you’re enjoying your Womenly Wednesday

Thanks David. Much appreciated

Pratchet - they were reporting on the coverage in HuffPo. Martha Kearney sounded v amused. Was about 7.30 I think

Ms Lewis, do you identity as female from 0.00 hours Wednesday, or does it start when you wake up. Additionally, if you only identify as female from the time you wake up, do you stop identifying as female at midnight?

Essentially, are you a lady for the full 24 hours?