Response from Kate Green

[respectmysex]

NC for this one. I've emailed my local MP, Kate Green, to ask her position on self ID and womens spaces. Here is her response. Can you help break this down for me? I'm not sure what side of the fence she is on tbh.

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Thank you for your recent contact.

I am hugely proud of Labour’s track record on equality and, as a feminist of many decades standing I am personally sympathetic to self-identification sitting alongside careful and robust safeguarding and risk management, which is in the interests of both individuals undergoing gender reassignment and the wider community.

Protections and safeguards for women only spaces do already exist though I readily recognise that they have not always been appropriately implemented. I have seen troubling cases on both sides of this particular coin.

The focus should be on ensuring that safeguards are systematically applied so I am very pleased that Labour has committed to ensuring that trans people can live their lives with equality, dignity and respect, and would update the Gender Recognition Act to enable a process of self-identification while continuing to support the implementation of the Equality Act, including ensuring that the single sex exemption is understood and fully enforced in service provision.

I hope this is helpful.

Kind regards

Kate Green

She has to get selected first by the local party, but I am hopeful as she has a high profile. I know her a bit and she is a thoughtful intelligent woman who’d be a really good MP. Have to get her past selection.

Have a look at Labour Uncut - her partner writes a lot on there. It’s a major focus of Labour Party GC analysis: labour-uncut.co.uk/2022/02/15/starmer-is-doing-well-everywhere-except-defending-womens-rights/#more-22648

What!? Prisons and hospitals are not safe single sex spaces anymore!

I think she is alluding to the fact that both are supposed to be carrying out risk assessments prior to placing a trans woman in female prison or ward.

But the quality and robustness of those risk assessments are pathetic or non-existent; and do not involve the other women who are expected to share their space. So they can never assess the impact of that individual being placed in womens spaces.

And the majority are tick box exercises to say they have considered the risk, from the angle of risk to mental health of not being affirmed is greater and most important risk to consider.