Today programme asking for 'off the grid' election concerns

[ValancyRedfern]

Writing in a rush: just heard on the Today prog (radio4) they are asking for people to email in with their major election concerns which aren't front and centre in the campaign - 'off the grid'. I know what I'll be emailing about! Didn't quite catch the email address but should be easy to look up. Off the grid as the subject line.

Was it [email protected]?

I emailed:

My main concern: the outcome and potential legislative changes resulting from the consultation last October into the Gender Recognition Act and the introduction of self-ID for transgender legal status. None of the candidates in my constituency are up to speed, my MP gave me a copy and paste response at the time of the consultation but nothing since and none can tell me how they would vote on the issue. In every issue close to my heart - climate change, equal pay, crime, access to employment and education, taxation- women are affected differently or more negatively than men on the basis of their biological sex and yet there was recently a consultation to effectively make the legal definition and therefore any data collected about women - and consequently any assessment of whether women are disproportionately affected by these issues - completely meaningless and incoherent.

Email [email protected] with the subject Off the Grid.

Election issues which aren't being covered in mainstream news.

I’ve emailed. Not very articulate but hopefully it helps!

I sent this:

The most important issue for me this election is the fight for women's single-sex spaces and protections.

If we cannot name ourselves, we cannot address discrimination arising from our female biology - in sports, changing rooms, even refuges and prisons where male bodied individuals are utterly inappropriate but currently prioritised. We can't address the pay gap correctly if male-born individuals are counted in with women because they've reached a certain career level and then transitioned.

I'm politically homeless currently, because neither of the parties I traditionally support are prepared to stand up for women, or even admit they know what one is (hint: not born male).

I will not vote for a party that doesn't know what I am, and why being able to define that is important.

(name not for broadcast or public use)

I came on to post this! Long commute so a bit late!