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bellabelly · 04/12/2019 23:04

Emily Maitliss grilling Sarah Wollaston (LD) about gender self-id. Good!

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ThePurported · 04/12/2019 23:09

I love you Emily Maitlis Star

I can't actually believe my ears.

inkydinky · 04/12/2019 23:09

Also watching. Really pleased to see this. I do wish that Maitlis would make the point that WOMEN are victims of hate crime, which is why our spaces are required. But otherwise some excellent points made.

YellaHumberElla · 04/12/2019 23:10

Maitliss again?! C’mon that woman!

TheDogsMother · 04/12/2019 23:11

Absolutely hats off to Emily.

PJsatMidday · 04/12/2019 23:12

Sarah fucking Wollaston - but what about the poor men, wahhhhh

I was wavering, thinking about voting for them tactically to get rid of our local Tory boy. Not any longer. Lib Dems: Enjoy your extinction.

Trewser · 04/12/2019 23:12

It was good, well done Emily. Why can't the pressure be on men not to be violent to trans women? Why is it fine to just accept that transwomen can't use male toilets? Why can't the police arrest men who threaten trans women under hate crime legislation?

Trewser · 04/12/2019 23:13

Lib Dems - enjoy your erasure.

AnyFucker · 04/12/2019 23:13

Loving your work, Emily

Oooooooooooooooooooh · 04/12/2019 23:13

The libdem woman was absolutely rubbish. Just spouting incoherent nonsense. And she’s a doctor?????

PJsatMidday · 04/12/2019 23:13

That's me paraphrasing Wollaston, because that's pretty much all she had to say. All she cares about is their discomfort. Fuck the discomfort of women and girls.

WichBitchHarpyTerfThatsMe · 04/12/2019 23:18

I've been peak handmaidened again. Emily was sharp and to the point though. Methinks the BBC are beginning to read the room on this issue.

RedToothBrush · 04/12/2019 23:24

I am becoming a Matliss fan girl.

WichBitchHarpyTerfThatsMe · 04/12/2019 23:28

Me too RedToothBrush - Matliss for PM I say!

TinselAngel · 04/12/2019 23:28

I too have a slight Maitliss crush.

arethereanyusernamesleftatall · 04/12/2019 23:28

Emily Maitless is brilliant!

If anyone missed it, you can still listen live here and rewind to 11pm if you're on a computer, I think:

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live/bbctwo

ThePurported · 04/12/2019 23:28

The Lib Dems were handed an opportunity on a plate to address women's concerns, and they sent Dr Sarah Wollaston to drone on about 'born in the wrong body'?
She talked about men who 'haven't yet fully physically transitioned'. Does she think that trans means genital surgery? How quaint.
She is going to have a hell of a shock when she realises what the trans umbrella encompasses.

birdsdestiny · 04/12/2019 23:30

She was great. She is fighting her corner at the bbc. Wollaston didnt even believe what she was saying. It was the pre approved script.

RedToothBrush · 04/12/2019 23:34

When is someone going to address how suggesting someone is born in the wrong body is feeding dysphoria in a whole where body image is a huge deal due to distorted ideas self image coming from social media usage?

When is someone going to challenge the Lib Dems (and Stonewall) about how the Stonewall definition of homosexual being based on gender identity is intrinsically homophobic?

AnyFucker · 04/12/2019 23:34

Emily looks like a blonde Claudia Winkleman.

Slight derail. As you were.

PJsatMidday · 04/12/2019 23:37

Her floundering about the "assignment at birth" bollocks and whether she, as a medical doctor, believes this concept, was pretty funny. Her failure to understand that the whole point of self ID is that nobody has to "fully transition" was just pathetic. She clearly knows nothing about what we are dealing with here.

I actually really hope the Lib Dems lose all their seats and just disappear from Uk politics. They have done nothing for this country. If it wasn't for those duplicitous bastards getting into bed with Cameron and giving that charlatan a "respectable" facade, we wouldn't be in the complete shit storm we are in now.

Melroses · 04/12/2019 23:39

Twitter #newsnight seems to be full of gay men who know more about women's spaces than women Hmm Very quick off the mark with their 'terf' accusations.

Eye opening.

Melroses · 04/12/2019 23:41

I actually really hope the Lib Dems lose all their seats and just disappear from Uk politics

The polls don't look good for them so far. They seem to have a "vote for no Brexit and we will throw in a whole pile of pants you didn't want" policy.

arethereanyusernamesleftatall · 04/12/2019 23:42

I'm going to send a card to Emily Maitless to thank her for challenging politicians on self ID, this isn't the first time she's brought it up recently.

Does anyone want to join me? I think we can write to her at:

Emily Maitless
c/o BBC Newsnight,
Zone D, 3rd Floor,
BBC Broadcasting House,
Portland Place,
London,
W1A 1AA.

OvaHere · 04/12/2019 23:43

Wow. What a load of tosh from Sarah Wollaston. She really has no idea what she's blathering on about. Utterly appalling for a patron of Rape Crisis and a medical Dr.

Emily was brilliant once again

NotAssigned · 04/12/2019 23:45

If we're fangirling, and especially if we're writing, it's perhaps worth mentioning that it's Maitlis