Mordaunt gone

[MrsSnippyPants]

And I’m glad

I agree Popchyk. It shouldn't be a part-time job that is given to whichever woman in the cabinet is willing to take it on. The GEO calls the shots, the minister is just a mouthpiece.

TRAs won't be happy though.

Maria Miller did exactly what she was told to do by the trans lobby. But didn't last long enough in the job to get the law changed.

And Mordaunt was compliant and repeated the mantras until the backlash gained traction in the media. Then she was largely silent.

Rudd has been on the carousel before. Knows some of the issues at least, knows that self-ID is getting ever more controversial. Knows that Miller and Mordaunt rightly got flak for their lack of any thought about the impact on women.

An astute politician would be able to use that to her advantage.

But Rudd will just ignore it and hope it goes away. She'll be in another ministerial position in 6 months so she'll keep her head down and hope to move to a more prominent department. No way is Rudd going to force through self-ID and risk her career. She didn't last time she was at W&E. And won't do it now.

That's a problem for the TRAs.

Posting this here from the other thread. Free text box to tell Boris your most pressing issues.

views.conservatives.com/priorities?fbclid=IwAR0tZ9rtdVdAtvOy70Ah8Vbntn8Vfu6z2Hs1gcrc5qVfODeIo7Nvw2YHb9c

A LOT of this never happens shit has happened since Rudd last held the post including a big pushback in Scotland thanks to Joan & Joanna.

She will be aware of this and therefore may just keep kicking it down the road which is better than forging ahead with self ID but it doesn't address the issues of many organisations disregarding the Equality Act or the increasingly pressing issue of medical whistleblowing about the welfare of gender confused children.

Would it help if we contacted Amber Rudd to get our views heard about self ID? I know those lobby groups will be contacting her immediately to try to get their views heard.

Spot on Popchyk

I think it's time to write again to Conservative MPs & spell out the opportunity for a clear & wide policy difference from Lab/Lib on GRA. Most pundits think a general election will be called in less than a year and with Brexit & summer recess there is a need for some ideas in other policy areas to shout about.

I think we need to get some campaign on social media going which spells out that the women's vote will go to whichever party knows what a woman is. Brexit might be the bigger, more immediate issue but it's such a shit show now, I think it's out of our hands.

OP your link to your that thread about Carrie has given me hope. There is no way she thinks transwomen are literally women, she knows too much about the realities of being female. I'm sure she wants trans people to be protected from discrimination and violence just like we do, but not that a male becomes female on his say so.

The TRAs are already lobbying Amber Rudd. They don't hang around.

So I think as many women as possible contacting her to point out women's sex-based rights, and rights to single sex spaces, would be good. And the situation in Canada, of course.

We are, for the worst possible reasons, fortunate to have the example of Canada - who are paving the way and flagging up the horrific issues that are the end result of this sort of TWAW legislation.

Also Scotland - surely Rudd will look at how/why Scotland puts the brakes on this legislation too?

Boris will have his hands full with brexit.

Turbo

Brexit will get plenty of support/coverage anyway so I think a big campaign regarding women voting for a party that knows what a woman is might be a good idea.

I filled in the link for the conservative party and made it clear what a woman is and that trans rights need to be separate to women's rights and the safe guarding of women and children. If enough women do the same hopefully they will realise this is an important issue.

I don't know how BJ feels about Salvini but both are anti EU so he may want them onside, so Italy considering banning puberty blockers is good news - it's bloody fantastic news anyway. If CS is good friends with Nimco that is great news as she will hopefully understand what a woman is and the issues faced because of biology rather than identity.

Feeling a bit more positive about him being PM now.

twitter.com/ReSistersU/status/1154293990105255936

Ambers pinned Tweet.

Thrilled and honoured to be reappointed to the
@DWP
and also take on
@WomenEqualities
.

I look forward to continuing my work to improve the welfare system and I’ll do everything I can to help women and girls improve their lives.

Let’s hope she means it!

I look forward to continuing my work to improve the welfare system and I’ll do everything I can to help women and girls improve their lives.

Good as long as she knows what a woman is.

Quick off the mark there ReSisters! Nice one.

Every new face pitches up not knowing anything about the GRA and its proposed reform, listens gravely to the Stonewall civil servants telling their tales of suicide and erasure of transfolx, and the Minister then goes forth to repeat what the GEO staff have instructed her to say.

I agree.

Timing is interesting though. Mordaunt confirms legislation is going through, despite knowing Boris had the leadership in the bag. Was she naively hoping this was reason to keep her on, or was she signalling her ally status.

Then Pink News report that it has been kicked into the long grass before Rudd is appointed. And then Rudd emphasises "women and girls". My guess is that the party has decided this one goes on the back burner. It is tge advice editors of the Times, Spectator and Mail will have given if they were not able to work it out for themselves.

Stonewall is already asking everyone to contact their MP in support of GRA reform so we need to get our voices heard. They also have a website fill in form to make it easier.

My gut feeling is that Rudd is GC - perhaps not in public but in private. I hope I'm right.

I guarantee Boris couldn't give a flying f*ck about trans rights or women's rights. I imagine he's critical of trans people in a boorish, bigoted kind of way rather than being thoughtfully critical of gender ideology IYSWIM. I suspect Carrie Symons is GC from what people have said upthread. I also suspect people like Andrew Gilligan have Boris's ear.

Overall, I think Boris is a disaster for the country and is no friend of feminists but I also think it he will extinguish the GRA reform project.

Regarding his sister though, I do think she's GC. She's written a few pieces around the issue:

www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-4121112/RACHEL-JOHNSON-told-class-call-Richard-Did-trans-kid.html

Amber Rudd is sitting on a majority of 346. She will be very vulnerable in any general election to even a small number of women switching sides over this.

Good point, Always.
I don't know whether Rudd is GC or not, and it's irrelevant anyway because she is not a conviction politician. She is driven by her own political survival (and that of her party).
As Home Secretary, her defence re the Windrush scandal was that she hadn't read the memos, so I fully expect her to let civil servants dictate her stance on self-id.

It must be possible to mobilise women voters, and their concerned male relatives and friends, in Hastings and Rye to focus Amber Rudd's mind on this. Local FB groups, for instance.

Another gender critical voice heading into No. 10!

twitter.com/bengoldacre/status/1154875340117958656?s=21

Was just coming on to post that bit of news, Snippy!

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/26/boris-johnson-appoints-arch-critic-of-hs2-as-transport-adviser