@JustAnotherPoster00
So very wealthy woman refuses to vote Labour, who would tax more of her wealth, because 'trans' whilst the Tory parties policies kill disabled and vulnerable woman through the removal of services and destitution due to the inadequate benefits system, does the holy one suggest who to vote for or is just a case of fuck the poor and lets get on with this right wing moral panic?
Solidarity sisters [eye roll]
It’s not “because trans” it’s “because Labour’s position = trampling all over women - including the vulnerable ones you’ve just chosen to highlight”.
I’m one of the disabled women who didn’t get the £20 benefit uplift during Covid because it was not granted to those of us on legacy benefits. (Despite, of course, disabled people paying an average of £583 a month crip!tax - ie the additional costs incurred due to their disability/disabilities.)
I’m one of the CEV group who got an email towards the end of last year basically saying “we’re ending all shielding support, but you probably ought to keep doing all the stuff as far as possible - I mean, you’ll look mad & we’re focused on ‘back to normal’ meaning ‘ignore it & it will go away’, but you’re still at risk (not that we’re mentioning that to anyone else)” - followed by another, just before Christmas, to say I’m in the lucky 1.5 million who get to try the new drugs if I catch Covid. So atm, in disability activism circles, a special sort of “Shat Upon By Tories” (& that’s leaving aside umpteen other far more identifying issues).
J K Rowling represents my interests better than Labour do. ATM only the Tories (in England) are opposed to self-ID, but they are indeed a disaster for disabled people. (Immediate response to that report was essentially “you are fibbers & we are totes awesomes”; we are now at be grateful damn you while Chloe Smith looks for suitably tall dark winding bannister-free staircases & canisters of cockroaches are stockpiled…)
I wouldn’t feel safe sharing a bay with any male person, however they choose to identify, when in hospital. It is bad enough having other women hear - because they inevitably do, unless you’re in a side room - every last detail of your body’s [mal]functions. I have had the experience of another patient’s male relative staying in the Bay (he was not meant to be there, staff were not aware & patient was not - unlike me, as it happens - desperately unwell). I’m sure he was a perfectly nice man with no thought other than for his female relative (& perhaps his own comfort). Unfortunately, my lizard brain was not on board with this analysis. The stress did bring my blood pressure up towards normal, which was much-needed - but I literally couldn’t speak with terror. My nurse was in to me multiple times for obs & to switch over IV bags, I didn’t need to call them even, but I couldn’t speak. The idea is bad enough in the daytime, from a privacy, dignity & neurodivergency point of view. Dismissing my not wanting to be repeatedly retraumatised night after night as part of a “right-wing moral panic” is, to put it politely, grim**. Not that it should have to be about any of the many women & girls who are survivors of male violence. Nor those women whose faith prohibits their sharing such a space with a male individual - again, however they identify. It is enough that women simply want to keep the single sex spaces that are there to protect them; & to take the utilitarian approach, which here, of course, means vigorously enforcing women’s rights to single sex spaces (“here” would of course apply to female sport, girls’ schools - & the charity commission making Girlguiding either revert to being single sex for young members or give up the “single gender” nonsense & be openly mixed sex).
With their attitude towards women’s rights (ie that they can simply be given away) & single sex spaces (ie that single gender is totally the same thing) Labour have managed to alienate lots of women. I haven’t noticed them being concerned about the actual real hate crimes against disabled people nor the fact disabled people are more at risk of domestic abuse. They have endless energy to spare for decrying non-crime hate “incidents” against trans people (mean tweets & stickers stating scientific facts: THE HORROR!) & keep up the “most vulnerable” lie* but other than Vicky Foxcroft (who is, after all, Shadow Minister for Disabled People) Labour don’t seem interested in disabled people at all. Maybe we need to emphasise the [purple] zebra aspect more? Or just give in, dress them up as unicorns & add glitter?
It is dreadfully tedious, incidentally, to have the highly complex, nuanced, reasoned - & for many people, including posters here personal - issues at stake here dismissed as a “moral panic”. “Right-wing” is risible: there are people across the entire political spectrum who are massively concerned about the erosion of women’s rights & the approach being taken by schools, the NHS & youth organisations like Girlguiding to children & young people who identify as trans. To insist otherwise means that you are either ill-informed; genuinely believe that, for example, the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist Leninist) are right-wing; automatically parrot variations on “TWAW! transphobia! right-wing [ie fascist]! they just want to pee in peace! Be Kind! debunked [youth] suicide statistics!”; think “right-wing” is an inherently bad thing & a dreadful insult, possibly even such that it will cause people to change course (we have posters on here who are Conservatives as well as conservatives & tbh US Dems are about as right-wing as them on lots of things - our centre is very different: not going to go into further international analysis, but posters from elsewhere can advise you I’m sure); or are simply engaging in dishonesty as part of a bad faith argument.
- if as a class (in the UK) you are more likely to murder than be murdered & 50% of your prison population have committed a sexual offence, it is patently untrue to state you are “the most vulnerable”
yet again: OBVIOUSLY not all trans women are rapists & that should even need saying, but as it’s FWR, it does 
and crucially, self-ID gives any male person access: open that door & the very worst people WILL walk through it