Unison q&a with Keir Starmer

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I have had an email from Unison asking whether I have a question I'd like to ask Keir. I was thinking of this

How do you plan to encourage discussion around the proposed changes to the GRA and the impact this will have on maintaining safe spaces for females when any discourse around this subject is shut down and labelled transphobic?

Can you help me improve on it please?

I would try to work in how starting from the point of trans women are women automatically shuts down debate.

Also the old favourite, what is a women?

I like your question as it is. Hammering on the specifics is likely to get you a more productive result.

I like it OP, I would just make it slightly shorter is all:

How do you plan to encourage discussion around proposed changes to the GRA, and the impact this will have on safe spaces for females, when discourse is shut down and labelled transphobic?

You pretty much hit the nail on the head!

Violent crimes against women are at an 12 year high. Why do you think that is? What would you do in government to reduce these statistics?

I just submitted a question on the GRA. The more of us that mention it, the better. To be fair, I've already voted for him, as the least awful of a piss poor lot

It is now recognised that women’s rights and trans rights collide. How will you manage this collision?

I don't want discussion, I'm sick of discussion, I want women's rights ring fenced.
Women have the legal and moral right to single sex spaces and services. We had to fight to get them. We had to build and fund them.

It is immoral to put male rapists and child abusers in a womens prison.
It is immoral to force women to share mixed sex psychiatric and hospital wards.
Removing womens rights is not progressive, it is immoral.

I think your question is well phrased.

Agreed. It's an excellent question. Sadly, I doubt it will be asked (or responsibly answered, should the pigs ever get airborne).

Thanks all - I seriously doubt it will ever be put to him, but this is an email that all Unison members should receive and the more questions they get on this subject then the more it highlights to the union that the erosion of Women's rights is of the utmost concern and needs addressing regardless of the hysteria generated by the TRA brigade

Personally, given how he tends to (not) answer, I would go really precise and make it hard not to say yes or no.

E.g. Should all members of WPUK be expelled from the Labour party?

Do you condemn the use of smoke bombs, violence and intimidation by masked protesters seeking to shut down women discussing their legal rights?