feminist petitions, pledges and declarations from various political parties

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mostlyinnocuous · 01/12/2019 00:19

Feminist, gender-critical declarations have been published by most of the main parties. They look fairly similar to each other. (I don't think this is a coincidence). Looks like anyone can sign any or all of these - you needn't be a party member or supporter, but will they have any effect on the policies and practices of the wider parties?
This was covered in a Morning Star article yesterday. Links below:
Greens
Tories
Labour
Lib Dems
SNP

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stumbledin · 01/12/2019 00:24

That list seems to have missed out the WEP - but it and the others have been posted here, but no time to find links to threads, but interesting comments.

Can maybe find time to search tomorrow, in the mean time: www.womensgrid.org.uk/?tag=sexbasedrights

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mostlyinnocuous · 01/12/2019 00:30

Sorry, I missed the WEP

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mostlyinnocuous · 01/12/2019 00:58

Here are previous threads discussing some of these declarations:
Green-feminists-women-and-girls-declaration
green-party-gc-statements
Conservative-Womens-Pledge
So-why-have-some-petitions-re-Declaration-of-Womens-Rights-been-moved-from-this-thread-and-not-others

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OccasionalKite · 01/12/2019 01:03

Plaid Cymru not there, then.

No Women's Statement from Plaid Cymru.

BovaryX · 01/12/2019 08:55

Feminist, gender-critical declarations have been published by most of the main parties. They look fairly similar to each other

Isn’t the significant difference that Labour, Lib Dems, Greens have committed to rolling out self ID? The only party that hasn’t is the Conservatives

MrsSnippyPants · 01/12/2019 15:45

New signatures on the Conservative petition have ground to a halt after Twitter appeared to be deboosting their account.
In my view, this is political interference; what do others think?
Does deboosting have an effect?

cwg1 · 01/12/2019 16:35

Thank you. Brilliant article by Paula Boulton in The Morning Star. There is so much cogent writing to choose from, and the standard is getting better and better.

midcenturylegs · 05/12/2019 16:05

Bumping this as I didn't want to start a new thread, but hadn't seen this article posted anywhere:

inews.co.uk/news/politics/lgbt-issues-general-election-2019-party-manifestos-conservative-labour-lib-dem-1324640

It's a short article summarising the pledges made by all parties for LGBTQ rights. Based on that I would have to vote Tory.

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