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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Candidates are out, so now I have to make my decision

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Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 15/11/2019 12:32

My constituency is a super-safe seat, so my vote won't change anything unless there is an electoral upset on a scale we've never seen before. So I have the luxury of being able to vote entirely on principle.

My options are:

Labour - sitting MP. Not in Momentum, pro-Remain, has voted against Brexit at every opportunity, good reputation as constituency MP - all plus points. But she's on the Labour front bench and has drunk the Kool Aid on gender issues. Was not impressed when I met her to discuss this. So on a personal level I don't think I can vote for her and I am very bothered by Labour's abject failure to provide decent opposition on everything since Corbyn came to power, especially Brexit, by the antisemitism and by their appalling failure to grasp the threat gender ideology poses to women's rights. I just can't see Corbyn in the role of PM, representing the UK on the world stage. So I think that's a no.

Tory - would rather cut my own arm off and eat it raw than vote Tory.

Brexit - see above, with one of the legs thrown in for good measure.

LibDem - nope. If they wouldn't accept me as a member because of holding gender critical views, they can manage without my vote.

Greens - nope. I am not a non-man.

So that leaves me with an Independent candidate about whom I know nothing and the Alliance for Green Socialism. I've looked at their manifesto from 2017. Promisingly, it says absolutely nothing about gender except using it once where they clearly mean sex, but they do have quite a few pledges on women's rights where I think they do mean women. They won't win, and I probably wouldn't like it if they did, but if they've eschewed identity politics that might be the clincher for me.

I'm hoping for leaflets at some point so I can find out something about the Independent. If he focusses exclusively on local issues and seems sane, I might vote for him.

What a position to be in. I've never felt like this before at a general election. Sad Angry

What's everybody else doing?

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TooLateThePhalarope · 23/11/2019 15:18

Safe Lib Dem seat- will be voting Lib Dem on an "anyone but the SNP" basis.

FreezerBird · 23/11/2019 16:37

Had a good chat with our Labour candidate this morning. Very definitely GC but playing her cards close to her chest as big woke student population here. Has already had complaints from transgender community about the commitment to single-sex exemptions in the manifesto. Plans to go all-out GC if elected. Labour usually a distant third in a two-horse marginal here.

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