Writing to your MP

[Speakoutwoman]

I wrote to my Tory MP about the toxic EHRC guidelines for trans pupils and for the first time got a horrified letter back talking about the safeguarding implications with a promise to follow this up with the Education minister.

This is the first time they have fallen off the fence about this so if you have't found the time to write, this is the issue where the silent MPs may speak out. Insisting on the boys and girls sharing changing rooms and showers is evidently a step too far. And the safeguarding implications of 11 year old girls having to change in front of 15 year old boys in after school clubs was not ignored.

nae bother, Mole. Maybe at a distance if you squint.

@ChattyLion apologies for the delay in replying!

Kinsey wanted adults to abuse kids? What?

I did a Mumsnet Search as I was sure that there must already be a thread about the "Kinsey Paedophilia Controversy" but there isn't.

It really deserves its own thread - I will see what I can do about that

Some of the details of the controversy are disputed by the Kinsey Institute.

What is not disputed is that Kinsey used data and opinions from paedophiles to set out his stall that infants and young children positively enjoy "sexual experiences" with adults, notwithstanding that "size differences" can be a problem for the perpetrator when it comes to penetration by adult males.

It is also not disputed that Kinsey "fudged the statistics" overall in his reports, also unscientifically generalised data from specific sub-groups (eg. prisoners, paedophiles) to the general population as well as misrepresenting the nature of some groups, eg. presenting data gathered from prostituted women as data from "married women".

In the meantime, this Yorkshire TV documentary from 1998 which, if I remember correctly, references Kinsey's "helpful" contacts with members of the UK Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE):

"Secret History: Kinsey's Paedophiles"

I will shut up now because this is just one aspect of a much bigger controversy about Kinsey and this thread is supposed to be about Writing to your MP

(I also need to follow up the issue mentioned above about the lack of mention of any "Age of Consent" in the "Statutory guidance Keeping children safe in education" Sept 2019 - maybe that has been picked up in another thread? Things move fast on Mumsnet and it can be hard to catch up after going AWOL for a month!)

^Also for the insight about numbers contacting an MP. Impossible to interpret as it could be for so many reasons, eg.
one or more of the following^

a) lack of awareness that anything has changed and might be about to change further
b) aware but don't care/different priorities
c) aware but and concerned but have not taken any action at all
d) aware and concerned but any action taken did not include contacting MP
e) aware and support changes and further proposed changes

Or f) not confident that their local MP’s office isn’t staffed by some woke idiot with a hazy grasp of data protection law who might leak their data or out them to TRAs for a pile-on/doxxing.

^ This definitely crossed my mind, particularly after the egregious MN intern data breach. Its the reason I spoke my MP in person and at length when I chanced upon them out canvassing.

BettyFilious - Or f) not confident that their local MP’s office isn’t staffed by some woke idiot with a hazy grasp of data protection law who might leak their data or out them to TRAs for a pile-on/doxxing.

When I went to see my MP at his regular "surgery" to express my concerns about the proposed reforms to the GRA I was concerned to see that he was accompanied by two besuited young men who took notes of each consultation.

I understand why there is a need for "note-takers" but there was also no possibility of a private conversation as the "surgery" was in meeting room where local councillors also had tables set up to meet constituents. The "waiting area" for everyone consisted of seats on one side of the room and none of the consultations were confidential as they could be overheard by everyone in the room.

After initially feeling anxious about this I decided that the best thing was to be bold as brass and speak loudly and clearly, so that I would not appear intimidated and also hopefully give those sitting quietly in the "waiting area" a bit of a "heads up"!