Thought I'd put the text of my email here in case it was useful to anyone.
Dear Sir Keir,
I write to register my deep shock and horror that a member of the Labour front bench has accused a woman of 'weaponising' her sexual assault and abuse to promote hatred. Your MP's barely-there (and misspelled, good to know this didn't rank highly enough on his agenda for proof-reading) apology on twitter does not go nearly far enough to undo the damage he has caused your party in the eyes of many, many women and men.
Any woman who has been sexually abused will bear the scars of that abuse. For any woman, speaking about that abuse and trauma will be deeply painful. For a woman with the fame of JK Rowling to speak about her abuse is incredibly brave. In every piece of press on her, for the rest of her life, this will be mentioned. In every newspaper article, there will be reference to her as a survivor of sexual assault and domestic abuse. She has opened up a deeply painful, incredibly personal moment of her life and will never be allowed to put it away again. She did this in an attempt to promote a peaceful and respectful dialogue on the rights of women and girls to dignity and safety. Rights that are enshrined by law in the UK. In return, she received hatred, abuse, death threats and rape threats.
In the context of this appalling abuse, your front bencher decided that the fault here lies not with those screaming furiously at JKR, calling her a TERF cunt, telling her to 'choke on a cock' or 'die in a grease fire' but with the woman herself. After all, how dare she speak about her own abuse? It might make some men sad.
We live in a country where two women a week are murdered by their partner. Where rape convictions are at an historic low. Your MP doesn't think women should be allowed to speak about that. Your MP tells women they are hateful to want to discuss their legal rights. Your MP wants women to shut up, and go away.
Earlier this week you removed another MP from the front bench for retweeting an article in which a reference was made to an anti-semitic conspiracy theory. I applaud your decisiveness in this action; you showed the party and the country that actions, not words, are what counts when tackling anti-semitism within the Labour party. Given your strong response there, I would like to see the same commitment shown to removing those of your party who hold and publically express such blatant misogynistic views as Lloyd Russell-Moyle did this week.
Or do you too want women to simply shut up, and go away?