Non-binary debate in Westminster

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On now. I don’t know who this guy is who is speaking but he’s just said, “It ain’t fair and it’s not right” and he is a LEGEND.

Watch and comment!

Miriam Cates just stood up.

Is that when nobody takes any particular side?

Can you post the link please?

Lords or Commons? or a corridor somewhere in between?

Where will this be reported > Hansard?

It might be. But Miriam Cates is giving a barn-stormer of a speech.

www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/caa37f9a-b1fd-4d17-b0c7-7130035210ff

I can't find her anywhere, OP. Is it live? When was it?

thanks.

And it was

Sorry - it was Nick Fletcher who spoke first.

@Zerogravity started at 4:30. I have a girl-crush and huge admiration for Miriam Cates.

Me too, MidCentury. I’d take her out for a pizza any day.

Who is this speaking now, and who is the woman with the black scarf (who seems to think women shouldn't feel unsafe with transwomen in prisons assaulting them)

Guy who’s talking now pointing out that for most relevant things we have raised the age at which children are allowed to do things: tanning, smoking, tattoos, cosmetic procedures. It’s extraordinary (he says) that there has been a huge increase in access to puberty blockers with life-changing impacts on children, and if you challenge that, questioning whether children can think through the consequences, then you get cancelled.

I’m not sure who he is but he’s on the side of keeping kids safe and that’s one more.

Tim Loughton.

He says that if you search the Houses of Commons or Lords for a member, you can enter them as “male”, “female”, “any” or “non-binary”.

Live tweeting - twitter.com/fairplaywomen/status/1528761955443433472?s=20&t=4EPHwkTHe9eJj7fe6WStxQ

It's just crashed but Miriam must hang out here...!

Thanks, I am soundless today! Shall follow the tweets

No idea who this Scottish woman is. No info on the page. She's talking mince, though. Once again, I apologise on behalf of Scotland.

Whoever the woman speaking now is (Kristen? Scottish?) she hasn’t even defined non-binary, but she thinks it should very obviously have legal recognition in preference to sex.

What is it?

It's like they have cloth ears; the man pointed out to the Scottish lady that his speech was not about offending anyone but the implications for children and for sport.

Scottish woman says "it ain't going to erase me pet."

#notlistening
#notgettingit
#headinsand

She's going for the vaguely affronted style, while neatly managing to avoid actually saying anything of substance.