Hello all. I was a member for years - left because of geoff, waited over a year and just read but not registered. I then reached peak trans. I rejoined. There was another data breach so I left again. Still continued to read and get angry. There is a limit to what I can do but I have just lost it this weekend with my anger. Green party calling the police was probably the last straw.
Anyway - I have finally done something. Because of reasons we are all aware of I have to be cautious. Firstly I contacted my mum. Explained it and she's horrified. She has filled in the consultation. Took the very brave step of messaging my sister about it. Poured it all out in a message to her and expected her to ignore me. She didn't and she has filled out the consultation. Her husband has too. She is the last person on the planet who would ever do anything like this. So then I approached MIL. She got it after I directed her to fair play for women. FIL is filling it in too.She has filled in the consultation. I have now approached one work colleague who seems on side but has yet to do the consultation. I think she will though and her husband to. Obviously DH has done it. My point is that I have managed to get 6 people to fill in the consultation and have got a potential two more to do it. I know it's not much but if all of us who haven't been brave enough before did this then perhaps it will help.
I go from fired up confidence to beating this to actually sobbing in despair when I think about the future. I can not be as eloquent as the ladies on here and I probably won't ever put my point across as well as them but I just wanted to say that people ARE reading this board and ARE doing stuff. I truly believe the support for us is there. When I approached my sister and MIL they got it straight away. Most people agree with us they just don't know what is going on right under their nose.
Sorry this is rambling. I am going to do more. I am going to email my MP tonight. And next time there is a meeting near me I am going to go. Oh and just as an extra point. The very first thing I did was to like on facebook fairplay for women and women's place. My thinking was that this would show up on my friends news feeds and might make them click the link. I see it as sort of indirectly saying - i support this. I thought if things got ugly I could basically say that I had just liked it and I would check it out a bit more. I did this several weeks ago. No negative comeback yet and actually saw one of my friends has also liked fair play for women - so it's just a thought for those of you thinking about trying to go public as it were.
no males. no lies. no compromise.