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Fair Play For Women meeting MPs at House of Common on 16th October

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DoctorW · 06/10/2018 16:59

In fact even better than that, Woman's Place UK and Transgender Trend will be going too.

I (Nicola Williams) will be one of the three women attending in order to answer MP’s questions about how proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act will affect women’s rights.

Womans Place UK and Fair Play For Women have both requested to meet with Penny Mordaunt, Minister for Women and Equalities, to represent the concerns and questions of the thousands of women who support us, but have not been granted a meeting.

So, we are taking the meeting to the House of Commons to give Penny Mordaunt, and all MPs, the opportunity to meet us, ask questions and hear our views. All they need to do is drop in and meet us. This is the opportunity for MPs to hear the voices of women concerned by these changes and to increase their knowledge about this subject in a calm, confidential environment.

Every MP has received a formal invitation for this meeting but we need YOU to make sure they come. Please email your constituency MP telling them that you support us and ask them to confirm to you that they will attend this meeting.

You can find your MPs details here www.writetothem.com/
Email them this weekend before their diaries get filled. The meeting is just 10 days from now.

Meeting: How will changes to the Gender Recognition Act affect women’s rights? Tuesday 16th October 2018 at 10:30am until 12:30pm in Room S, House of Commons

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Queenofthedrivensnow · 13/10/2018 16:38

@StrangersWhenWeMeet ugh to that reply. I disagree about the discrimination too

takemetomars · 13/10/2018 16:54

MP has been emailed

greathat · 13/10/2018 16:57

@Beagadorsrock thanks for posting that he's my MP too. I disagree with just about everything he says and does. He's true to form

R0wantrees · 13/10/2018 18:13

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Fair Play For Women meeting MPs at House of Common on 16th October
StrangersWhenWeMeet · 13/10/2018 18:26

Just to update, I sent an email reply (issue being time sensitive and not wanting to play the snail mail game!) reiterating that I wanted him to let me know he or a researcher would attend the meeting, and briefly outlining some concerns about the openness and accessibility of the consultation in the light of attempts to shut down debate, and the obvious limitations of relying on the EA as a defence of sex segregated spaces ref for example girl guides and Karen White.

Good advice above about meeting him in person but unfortunately I’m not well enough to go out at the moment - I’m just trying to do what I can from my bed in these last few days before the meeting and consultation closes!

Carry on all - keep pushing... and courage!! Flowers

theOtherPamAyres · 13/10/2018 18:26

@Labradoo
What information can I send to my labour MP

Don't sweat it. Keep it simple. It's too late in the day to send links and stuff anyway. Just arm-twist her/him to go.

This is a cut and paste from my daughter in law to her Labour MP

"You have been invited to attend a drop-in session with FairPlay for women on (date) between (times) in (Room). I hope that you, or a member of your staff, will take the time to listen to concerns about the consultation on the reform of the Gender Recognition Act.

Please let me know whether you will attend.

I intend to make an appointment to see you at one of your surgeries, to express my fears and concerns around the erosion of hard-fought-for rights, and the safeguarding risks posed by the reforms.

tongue-in-cheek smilie - you don't have to do this, but it helps

FekkoTheLawyer · 13/10/2018 18:28

I emailed last Sunday - no news from Karen Buck, Labour.

theOtherPamAyres · 13/10/2018 18:50

no news from Karen Buck, Labour.
@Fekko
Karen Buck is an MP because was she was Labour party's winning candidate in an all-adult human females shortlist. Let's hope that she's not the kind of adult human female who pulls the ladder up once she's got her job sorted. Hmm

MorbidMuch · 13/10/2018 21:08

I've not yet heard back from my MP, but she normally replies via snail mail, so hoping for Monday.

SweetheartNeckline · 13/10/2018 21:27

Just emailed my Labour MP. Possibly too late but we had a lengthy (fruitless) email and post exchange last year about this topic, so there's a slim chance his interest was sufficiently piqued.

Thank you for your tireless efforts Dr Nic.

Galvantula · 13/10/2018 22:14

Zero response from SNP Stephen Gethins. Bawbag.

theOtherPamAyres · 13/10/2018 22:41

SNP MP Stephen Gethins

At the last election, he slipped into Parliament with a majority of Two.

He should be fawning and falling over backwards for constituents if he wants to stay in Parliament.

Galvantula · 13/10/2018 22:43

You'd think eh...

Galvantula · 13/10/2018 22:44

totally not an SNP fan. But all politicians apart to be bawbags atm.

Galvantula · 13/10/2018 22:44

Appear

SeaRabbit · 14/10/2018 11:09

I've just emailed my (Tory) MP – I had a number of exchanges with him back in the summer and got the usual brush off, but I have now cited Karen White, and sent him a link to the article in today's Times, about the views of other Conservatives and invited him to go along to the meeting.

ChattyLion · 14/10/2018 18:08

I’ve emailed my MP to remind about the meeting in Tuesday because I haven’t heard back yet from them. I’m very suspicious because I first wrote about it several days ago..

hipsterfun · 14/10/2018 18:10

My Labour MP seems to be ignoring me.

FekkoTheLawyer · 14/10/2018 18:12

Me too. I'm very unimpressed 😡

agennaro · 14/10/2018 18:15

I emailed my conservative MP and then called to follow up. Had an email response saying his diary was full that day but he has been to similar and that he shared the concerns I expressed.

Better than I hoped!

ChattyLion · 14/10/2018 20:24

I’m tempted to call up their office tomorrow to ask them about it, if I don’t hear back.
It’s not like women’s groups have ££££££££ budgets to hold repeated lobbying events for MPs .. this one is it!

LoafEater · 15/10/2018 09:55

I have not heard back from my MP, Boris Johnson. What a shocker.

NoRunAround · 15/10/2018 10:03

I've heard from my minister MP "While I cannot attend due to prior engagements, I am receiving a lot of briefing on this and will certainly add your own submission to my folder."

I suppose that's better than nothing.

QueenYnci · 15/10/2018 10:42

Nothing from mine. Not a huge surprise. Male Labour MP, painfully woke, 'feminist'.

I'll keep emailing him. He's not the sharpest but something might click eventually. The seat isn't as safe as it used to be, he might turn out to need the adult human female vote...

Tanith · 15/10/2018 11:08

Strangers: That is, word for word, what my MP sent. There was a delay in replying, too, so either he waited for guidance or he passed it to someone else to deal with.

I think they are so tied up with Brexit that they actually don’t have time to consider this, and many other important matters. It’s how stuff is being slid past them and why the Times has come as such a horrid shock.