Government consultation on violence against women and girls ends at 11.45pm tonight 26/3/21

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I had a search and can’t see a thread on this. I’m sure there must be one somewhere on the women’s rights board (apologies I couldn’t find it) but as I couldn’t find it I wanted to make sure that people were aware of this government consultation.

It ends tonight at 11.45pm and takes about 15 mins to do - unless you want to write more in the open ended questions.

www.gov.uk/government/consultations/violence-against-women-and-girls-vawg-call-for-evidence

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What a dog's dinner it all is.

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I used the free text boxes to explain how gender identity ideology is damaging women’s and girl’s rights and safe spaces away from males/male violence - especially because the consultation kept asking about support for victims. I talked about how women fleeing domestic abuse shouldn’t have to share with biologically intact males, or women calling a rape crisis centre for support shouldn’t have to speak to a male/male voice. And that women and girls shouldn’t be indoctrinated to lower their personal boundaries and need for privacy to accommodate biological males.

I also wrote a lot about violent pornography and children’s access to it and how it is distorting their understanding of a healthy sexual relationship, based on consent and mutual respect.

Would love to hear what you wrote if you want to share (although I’ll probably just think “damn it why didn’t I write that?!”)

I made a few points about safeguarding.

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Thanks for the reminder.
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I said it was essential that services offer sex-based protection so women and girls aren't forced to share spaces with biologically male people.
In the final box I said the words woman and girl must remain defined in law as biologically female since birth otherwise how can you protect what you can't define. I cited male prisoners accessing females and committing assaults, women's charities being defunded for not being inclusive, rape victims being threatened with contempt of court for referring to their rapist as "he".

I feel very despondent and at the moment, and to my shame I am thankful that I have a son (who i can at least try to influence on an individual level) and not a daughter (who I would feel powerless to protect from this tidal wave).

I feel very despondent too my Dd is 6.5 and a HF Autistic and pretty “gender non forming” ( whatever that BS term means compared to other girls her age.

I’ve been doing lots of laying the groundwork with her for the past few years casually talking about how humans can’t change sex, how your chromosomes and genes don’t change even if you had surgery to change your body and especially if you only put on “women’s clothes” and called yourself a woman. She loves science so this explanation appeals to her keen sense of logic/black and white thinking.

We have chats about how silly it is when people say certain things/clothes/toys etc are just for boys/girls only. And what nonsense it all is. I joke that if daddy put on one of my dresses would that suddenly make him a mummy? Of if I put on daddy’s work suit would I suddenly be a man? She laughs and says “noooo!”

We tell her she can like/play with/wear what she wants and she’ll still be a girl and that’s amazing. She sees her toddler DBro playing with the same toys as her/dressing up clothes/pushing the dolls pram etc.

They both love the book “my body is me” by transgender trend.

Honestly the fact that I’ve even had to have these chats with her already makes me furious. But we felt we had no choice, we had to “get in there first” and begin to plant the seeds before she got indoctrinated with this regressive BS. The rates of transgenderism in the autistic community worries me greatly.

Thanks for the reminder.

I filled it in and right at the end there’s the bloody gender question! How can they begin to sort this out when they don’t even know the sex of those they are talking about!

thank you for the reminder. I wrote this under my comments. It may not be perfect but I hope gets across how tired I am of having to say the same thing each time on every govt consultation that relates to women.

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Thank you for the reminder - just done it really quickly

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It really only takes a couple of minutes to make the basic points.