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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Any advice on how to respond to Labour Party rep very welcome

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WeRoarSometimes · 28/02/2021 22:46

I live in a semi-rural area where Labour campaigning like mad for the local elections. The results were Conservative at the last council election. I wrote to the Labour Party about the MOMA bill readings and the Labour party thinking that sex wasn't a protected characteristic and the party of view on women's protections under the law. Recent threads about surrogacy and the MOMA bill reading here have really got me angry with how we are being treated.
I've had a reply and it refers me to the Equality Act page on the Labour party website. It doesn't mention sex at all on the protected characteristics section. Gender assignment has got it's own bit.
Is it pedantic to write back and say, that was my point? Sex is one of the protected characteristics, you've even taken it out of your explanation about the 2010 Equality Act, this isn't correct.

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StillFemale · 28/02/2021 22:53

Not pedantic at all

Daca · 28/02/2021 23:05

Please write back. This makes a mockery of the party’s commitment to equalities legislation, especially as the Equality Act was passed under Labour! How embarrassing.

Thelnebriati · 28/02/2021 23:10

YANBU. There's either a thread or a post where someone explains they've removed 'sex' from their membership data as well. Now everyone who joins has been assigned a gender.

Tartyflette · 28/02/2021 23:14

Yes please do write back. I filled in a survey online today that the Labour Party had sent me asking why I haven't renewed my membership.
So I told them, at length. With specific references to the Equality Act, safe spaces for women, women's sport, prisons, safeguarding and males appropriating roles reserved for women within the party and elsewhere.
It probably won't do much, if any good but i felt better for doing it.
I may have mentioned #labour losing women too.

StillWeRise · 28/02/2021 23:29

no not pedantic
I wrote to my (female) labour MP about the census. The reply I got didn't even vaguely relate to the point I raised (about the guidance notes on the sex question)
I replied to their nonsense answer and haven't heard back since. They shouldn't be allowed to get away with this crap.

dotoallasyouwouldbedoneby · 01/03/2021 02:03

Draw it to their attention again and tell them you will not vote for them until they recognise women's sex-based rights.

WeRoarSometimes · 01/03/2021 09:17

Thanks for this. I'm going to write back today.
Just a joke, how enthralled they are into the idea that gender is the be-all.
My local Labour Party's webpage shows: 'For the many, not the few'.
Right now the whole party is ignoring women.

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teawamutu · 01/03/2021 09:56

There's a reason that some render it 'for the men-y', OP Angry

thinkingaboutLangCleg · 01/03/2021 16:47

There's a reason that some render it 'for the men-y', OP

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peak2021 · 01/03/2021 17:06

Good you are writing back, and @teawamutu I like the phrase.

WeRoarSometimes · 01/03/2021 19:15

On a different note, I've got a 1 to 1,with my manager tomorrow. Sounds like a precursor to a disciplinary matter if I'm honest.
I have updated my for reports for children to record their sex, not gender. As in what their birth certificate says. These are children who are aged under 10. Apparently I should only use the word sex to reflect copulation and not lower the tone of our reports. Gender is a spectrum and gender identities should be accepted as changeable.
But sex isn't. That was the point of recording it
FFS. These reports go to court and are used by education teams, community health teams etc.
What is so offensive about recording factual information for a statutory service?
I don't have a union but I wonder if they would be any use right now.

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