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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Doorstep questions for local election canvassers

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HidingUnderARock · 02/04/2022 20:38

I just had a Labour canvasser on my doorstep and he is going to ask the candidate to come round and answer my questions!

So I want to do my homework. I have a general idea of the overriding issues, and can quote Rosie Duffield and David Lammy, but what can a borough councillor actually do? Everything I think of (e.g single sex facilities for schools and public buildings) are for the County Council or higher.
I think I saw a useful thread of what to ask last year but can't seem to find it with the search function.

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IsitM · 02/04/2022 20:46

Everything you need is here:

women-uniting.co.uk/respectmysex/

SpinningTheSeedsOfLove · 02/04/2022 20:49

Borough Councils have representation on County Counils - you can search yours online.

You can ask the candidate if and how they will seek to influence the County's policies to benefit women and girls, assuming they agree that women don't have penises.

HidingUnderARock · 02/04/2022 23:49

Thank you very much, that is what I was looking for.

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DryHeave · 03/04/2022 06:46

@IsitM

I had a look and can see a link to doorstep questions but there is currently no content there and says to come back on Saturday 2nd April. I hope they update it soon.

Igmum · 03/04/2022 07:25

I tried to engage a Labour canvasser who came to my door (2019 election I think) by talking about women being raped in prisons. He just didn't get what I was talking about. Then, when the penny dropped, he started screaming, literally screaming "TWAW" and fled from my doorstep screaming and screaming. I had been calm and low-voiced. It was really quite disturbing. Hope you fare better OP.

HidingUnderARock · 03/04/2022 09:18

Yes, I couldn't find anything specific to local borough councils, which is what I wanted.
The canvasser said in a sort of controlled undertone "of course we all know they're not but we have to be sensitive to certain groups. I don't know why it keeps being asked."
This was not a direct answer to my question "I have to ask you, what is a woman?"
Clearly a lot of people are now braving it openly. I don't think anyone can pretend it is not a point of interest to the electorate any more.
I am now quite nervous for when (or even if) the candidate arrives as I don't have any specifics to task him with should he win.

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IsitM · 03/04/2022 10:35

[quote DryHeave]@IsitM

I had a look and can see a link to doorstep questions but there is currently no content there and says to come back on Saturday 2nd April. I hope they update it soon.[/quote]
Website working now. I suspect many of the women were busy in London yesterday and are just catching up on glitches!

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10679587/Gender-rights-activists-chant-respect-sex-want-X-London-protest.html

There is a suggested email template and very good doorstep questions.

women-uniting.co.uk/respectmysex/

IcakethereforeIam · 03/04/2022 11:33

I emailed my, tory, mp a couple of weeks ago (after Dodds before Starmer) to ask them if they could tell me what a woman was. I told them I only wanted to know for my own info. I would not publicise their answer, in case they were worried about a pile on. Told 'em I'd be happy with an email response. Still not heard back. I think if I was going to get an answer I'd have got one by now, it shouldn't be a difficult question. I'm going to hand deliver a letter to their office, with an sae!

Artichokeleaves · 03/04/2022 11:51

"What do you plan to do with all the female people excluded from services, resources, facilities, health care and such?"

(You will have to explain that yes Virginia, they really do exist.)

And then the inevitable follow up questions:

"So do you believe it's ok to exclude if only a small number of people are affected? Surely then it's ok to exclude male people from female facilities rather than a much bigger percentage of female people be excluded?"

"Does inclusion only matter for male people?"

"How many protected characteristics are there?"

"Where does it say that TQ+ interests trump all other protected characteristics? Or are you just against people of minority faith, culture, belief, disability, homosexuality? And isn't that a bit.... bigoted?"

"Have you heard of the word 'intersectionality at all and do you know what it means?"

"Do you believe in religious tolerance? Or only tolerance for people like you who hold your beliefs? Are your beliefs morally superior to others making you better qualified to govern others? Do you believe people not like you, with views you don't agree with, should be a subclass deprived of equality of resources and facilities granted to people who are like you? How does this not just make you a raging snob? What is the difference between this view and colonialism based on perception of moral and cultural superiority granting the right to suppress and harm others and remove their inferior way of life?"

"Do you think people in this subclass and females in general should be paying the same tax in your ideal world where they get less than those born male?"

"How exactly are you managing this extreme end sex based thinking while at the same time arguing that the reason for ending sex based rights is that sex isn't a thing?"

Mind you, they'll have long since run away by this point.

Monitaurus · 03/04/2022 11:51

Excellent questions there. Really showing how shit policies affect us all at a local level.

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