Women’s equality party

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Any opinions on the women’s equality party.
I like a lot of their idea but I’m unsure about their stance on gender identity issues.
They’re asking the police and government to do more about violence against women and girls. I’m confused about how there an be any policies or action to protect women and girls from violence if you can’t define who are women and girls.

Any thoughts

They messed up big time.
The end.

Their stance on gender identity issues is pure Stonewall, they are an utter waste of space.

They accepted Stonewall's position quite early on I think. Shame really because the name recognition would be handy for a party that cared about women.

Look into their treatment of Heather Brunskell Evans (there are a number of threads about this);

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3091759-Can-we-support-Heather-Brunsell-Evans

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3089842-Womens-Equality-Party

www.transgendertrend.com/dr-heather-brunskell-evans/

No. Just no. Don't go there.

Full of Very Important Men. So disappointed in Sandy Toksvig.

They should have been my party of choice. However, they have been Stonewalled.

Thanks. I sadly thought this might be the case.

I don’t understand how no one can question how impossible it would be for the government to put in place policies to benefit or protect women if you can define who women are. Like how could you make legislation or guidance or anything.

All I kept reading is that they are “intersectional” but with no further explanation of how that works in reality.

[quote Thelnebriati]Look into their treatment of Heather Brunskell Evans (there are a number of threads about this);

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3091759-Can-we-support-Heather-Brunsell-Evans

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3089842-Womens-Equality-Party

www.transgendertrend.com/dr-heather-brunskell-evans/[/quote]
Thanks I’ll take a look

Their definition of a woman and mine are very different as they have been fully Stonewalled.

Such a huge missed opportunity.

WEP have a sex based rights caucus, so there is dissention in the ranks.

Their website is here, I imagine they'd be great to talk to to get an idea of what's going on with WEP.

www.wepsbr.com/

They had one job

I'm seriously considering voting communist next election. They seem to be the only party explicitly stating they support women's sex based rights.
www.communistparty.org.uk/standing-up-for-womens-sex-based-rights/

I struggle to understand how you can acknowledge women being subject to violence from males as an issue….with recognising a need for feminism to centre female needs.

This plus the information pp gave has all you need to know, OP.

The Big Lie - how the WEP was always about gender rather than sex www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4058470-the-big-lie-how-the-wep-was-always-about-gender-rather-than-sex

@Unsureschool

They had one job

This.

When I joined I wasn't really aware of the whole issue. I left when i realised their definition of women includes biological males. That's not equality, that's males asserting their dominance over womens sex based rights, safety and dignity.

Sounds like a great political party to exclude 50% of the population. That's equality, hurrah for a men's party!

I think they came on MN for a webchat, as far as I remember it didn't go well for them.

@Unsureschool

They had one job

Seconded.

Same as MassiveHoard, joined and then left. Shame as I live in a constituency that they field candidates

They also came last year to encourage us to join a campaign for women caught homeschooling and balancing jobs during covid. The person posting the campaign did not want to discuss the wider policies and left when asked about actual real impact actions such as what they present/campaign for in parliamentary committees about self id and women’s rights.

Massively disappointed in Sandy Toksvig.

There is a WEP candidate in my constituency. I can't bring myself to vote for them, as they don't seem to know what a woman is.

The WEP are an undemocratic org who sat on & then ditched the outcome of consultation with members over self ID vs supporting single sex spaces.

Link to WEP sex based rights caucus statement

They're nothing more than a convenient vanity project that goes out of their way to compound the undermining of women's rights.

They're nowt more than 🍆🐼rers.