Having looked at the Times article 'MPs to consider gender petition backed by JK Rowling' that someone kindly shared in another thread. I wanted to look up what was said myself.
Baroness Barker said this:
"In the United States and places like Poland and Hungary the focus is on anti-abortion activities. In Africa, the focus is against equality and LGBT rights. In the US and UK, the key focus of this campaign is anti-gender. We are beginning as we go through, to see a greater emphasis on unpicking this campaign and understanding the motivations behind it. The Council of Europe, for example, in 2022 produced a thematic report on legal gender recognition in Europe, which began to show what this campaign is about. Ultimately, it is about the rolling back of human rights and the destruction of human rights legislation and the organisations which are there to protect and promote it. That is a key concern for all women because human right lies at the basis of our equality and equity.
In the UK we know that there is a daily campaign against trans women. We see it day after day in our media. It is a campaign that seeks to pit women against women. It portrays trans women as a significant and systemic threat to other women. I have to say that, after six years, it is a campaign that has yet to provide evidence of that, and it is yet to win significant approval. That is not to say that some politicians have not been taken in by this and have been ever ready to use it to their political advantage. I have to say today that some of us will always reject playing with human rights, because if you play with the human rights of some people, you play with the human rights of all, and if you jeopardise the rights of some women, you jeopardise the rights of all. I hope that politicians in this country will look again at some of the aspects of this campaign and will desist in the demonisation of a very small minority of people in this country. They are at the moment under attack and very frightened, and today, on International Women’s Day, it is important to give them some hope and solidarity...."
Does she not see that there isn't a 'daily campaign against trans women', unless I've missed it, and that what we do have is women standing up for women's rights, women's same sex provision, women's sports, KPSS and concerns about safeguarding women and children?
I understand what she is saying in her first two sentences, but for the rest of it, am I missing something? How on earth can standing up for women's rights roll back human rights and human rights legislation?
hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2023-03-10/debates/474EBD7D-B33A-49B5-8BCA-6EA39DEE5A95/InternationalWomen’SDay