We know there are over 200 of us with concerns about gender issues and the impact on the rights of women and children

[StealthPolarBear]

And we've done some work on defining and summarising the issues.
What's the best thing to do next?

Maybe we should find an articulate woman who knows all about safeguarding

Placemarking.
In the meantime, I'm in.

Great idea, Redshoueblueshoe. The name of the person is on the tip of my Lang... I mean tongue.

It would help if you posted a list of people, situations and rights that will be affected, for those who can't see the issue.

Count me in.

Redshoueblueshoe I've had a good look round and I can't find the perfect person on mn.

How about using that post as the basis of creating another 'break it down for me' type thread? That one is frequently bumped to keep it up and has been incredibly useful, to flag as a quick reference in tweets and emails to MPs and all sorts as well as for new FWR visitors.

Thelnebriati so
Patients requiring intimate care can no longer request someone of the same sex
People requiring live in social care
Etc... That sort of thing?

I thought LangCleg had already put one together but I cant find it,. maybe its in Chat.

at on the tip of my Langue

What's the best thing to do next?

Online? Offline? Local, regional, national?

Campaigning? Lobbying? Educating?

We could do with a Mumsnet group getting active offline, actually. Having MN local nmeetups with other concerned MNers, without necessarily joining any of the existing groups. The more the merrier, really.

One thing you could do is set aside time in the second week in March to fill in the Scottish GRA draft bill consultation and convince everyone you know to do it, too.

That's because if Scotland introduces self-id, the rest of the UK will have it too, even if the UK government doesn't. It will simply be impossible to avoid it in practice.

The more people simply say No thanks to self-id the better.

Thanks for that information on the Scottish GRA Charley.

Sorry Charlie but is this a second consultation ?
If so what happened to the last one or was it ditched for getting the answers wrong

This is the follow up.

The first consultation, where 40% opposed self-id succeeded in that the Scottish Government decided to have a public consultation on the actual draft of the law. They were originally just going to put it before parliament.

This is now the consultation on the text and content of the new, reformed GRA as proposed - the actual law in question.

As written, it's piss poor, to be brutally honest and thoroughly offensive to other protected groups, but it's pathetically easy to refute their claims.

We are working on guidance to fill this in, but I reckon your average lurker on FWR could manage to fill in the most important bits with very brief answers.

Thanks Charlie, I thought I'd filled it in before.

Depends what you have in mind. A good starting point is picking a key topic and identifying key decision makers and influencers on that issue.

Here to be counted as one of the 200+ and ready to do more

This sounds like a good idea-

You can count me in too.

You can count me in as well.

And me x

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