Whereareyourshoes · Today 08:16
^Blister · Today 02:17
Paraphrasing my labour mp:^
^1. proud of the Equality Act,
- will oppose any attempts by the Government to weaken its protections for people with protected characteristics - correctly naming sex and gra.^
^My interpretation is that naming biological sex can be perceived as undermining the gra so he will oppose this petition but he did not explicitly state this.
- MP skipped talking about the sex category specifically
- Went on to lecture about love and the most persecuted.
- Ending on a lecture on strengthening hate crime laws against people on the basis of gender ID is the progressive way forward.^
In my eyes, labour thinks it is perfecting the art of protecting single sex spaces and simultaneously calling everything transphobia. Women are just pawns in their tight rope walk of little integrity and lots of compromise.
^So yes they'll win because people really want to believe their single sex stance. Lots of questions need to be asked.
Thank you, it’s quite incredible really isn’t it.^
Labour can say they will protect single sex spaces but also that male sex offenders (with or without a GRC?) who claim that they are women are of the female sex and so belong in women’s single sex spaces. And sounds like they see women correctly sexing a male person in a place they expected to be single sex for women as a potential hate crime.
Thank you Blister for the paraphrase of your Labour MP’s response.
Whereareyiurshoes and Blister it looks as though a sort of double-speak is going on I think.
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