I wrote to my MP last week to raise my concerns about men being able to self-identify as women. If you want to contact your MP, you can find their details here:
www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/mps/
In order to have your letter or email accepted, it must (as mine did) include your full name, postal address and contact details.
This is the letter I sent:
Dear Mr Heaton-Harris,
I am writing to raise with you my grave concerns about proposed reforms to the Gender Recognition Act.
Women’s rights are being hijacked by an aggressive minority of "trans rights activists" who want to change the very definition of what it is to be a woman, and thus erase our rights.
These activists are demanding that any full-bodied man can declare himself a woman and gain access to women-only spaces. Anyone who objects to this view is branded is a “transphobe” and will be met with the wrath of trans rights trolls.
My assertion that a full-bodied man with a penis is not a woman now renders me a bigot. That is an outrage.
Trans rights activists are creating their own highly offensive language aimed at women who disagree with them, and are demanding that the government accept their idealistic views as true.
Gender is not the same as sex. Any other belief is a delusion. It is impossible for a person to change their sex. They may identify as anything they please, with equal rights for all already enshrined in current law. Some (but very few) may even have gender reassignment surgery to change their outward appearance. But to sweep aside the rights of women and girls to safe, same-sex spaces in order to satisfy the demands of men who “identify” as women, would be a grotesque miscarriage of our basic human rights.
The recent removal of a poster showing the definition of woman (adult human female), on the basis that the word “woman” was hate speech, has moved us into terrifying waters. How can a woman’s rights be defined if the law changes the very definition of the word woman to include men? Women’s rights and protections would be lost. This cannot be allowed to happen.
Women’s concerns are not transphobic. We are not bigots. Our views are being shouted down and silenced by a small but highly aggressive group of trans rights extremists intent on pressing their agenda. Some of these individuals are being welcomed into the arms of political parties with seemingly no thought to the chaos they are intending to wreak.
Women have been attacked just for attending meetings to discuss their fears. People are too afraid to speak up for fear of retribution and their own personal safety. To bend to the demands of trans rights groups would be tantamount to Parliament obliterating women’s hard-fought rights. We have the right to segregate ourselves from men, and to know that our daughters are safe.
I implore you to raise these concerns in the House and to stand up against those bullies who would see women’s rights wiped out.
Yours truly,
[full name, address, phone and email]