Stephen Doughty MP has demonstrated repeatedly that he does not understand or respect Safeguarding & that he will do all he can to silence journalists & women, especially feminists raising concerns about the impact of transactivism on Safeguarding & women's rights.
October 2018 Pink News,
'LGBT Leaders: Lawmakers reject radical feminist transphobia'
(see screenshot)
Stephen Doughty MP with Baroness Liz Barker (LibDem) & Benjamin Cohen (Pink News)
All have had very high levels of influence & are closely aligned with TRAs & organisations.
www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/10/12/lgbt-leaders-lawmakers-reject-radical-feminist-transphobia/
Stephen Doughty MP took a lead role last year in the Home Affairs investigation into hate crime.
(Trans Media Watch made allegations about Mumsnet in written submission: thread
May 2018 Spectator,
'Why are some MPs trying to shut down the transgender debate?'
James Kirkup
(extract)
Even if you don’t know who Stephen Doughty MP is, if you’re vaguely familiar with the history of New Labour, you’ll know his story: Oxford, a job for a senior Labour politician and a brief spell working in charities. Then selection for a safe seat in his early 30s, thanks to a combination of talent and friends in the right places.
Now 38 and having resigned from Jeremy Corbyn’s front bench over, well, Jeremy Corbyn, Doughty sits on the Home Affairs Committee, which, among other things, is inquiring into hate crime, and its causes. To that end, the committee last week took evidence from a bunch of newspaper editors about the way their papers covered groups including British Muslims and transgender people. Doughty was very interested in the latter group, talking quite extensively about what he described as “a concerted effort by certain publications at the moment to promote some extremely unpleasant transgender hate material.” (continues)
The long article contains discussion & evidence many of the concerns being raised today & is worth reading in full.
James Kirkup concluded:
"Doughty, meanwhile, describes as “extreme” and “hate material” an article which observes that some people lobbying for changes in the name of transgender people are advocating things that might not be in the best interests of children. I have never met Doughty but have generally heard good things about him from colleagues: bright, committed, thoughtful and so on. So I must assume that he was having an off day when the committee met last week. It happens to us all, after all.
Surely a bright, thoughtful chap like him didn’t mean to imply that it was his job as Member of Parliament to tell newspapers what they can and cannot write? Surely he had no intention of acting as if it is in any way appropriate for a politician to decide what is and is not acceptable for journalists to say, and how they say it? And I can only hope that it was by a simple accident that he singled out by name a female journalist and suggested that her employers stop her saying the things that she thinks – because Doughty happens not to like her saying those things?
As I say, I must assume that he meant none of these things, that he had no such moronic and bullying intent when he spoke and acted as he did. I assume that Doughty is an honourable politician determined to do his job in a democracy and ensure that matters of public policy are debated fully and honestly, whether or not some people find such debate offensive. Because, as I am sure Doughty knows, there is no right not be offended and if we ever let hurt feelings stop us discussing matters of public interest on the basis of the facts, everyone loses."
blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/05/why-are-some-mps-trying-to-shut-down-the-transgender-debate/