Anyone else aware of this group, set up to get more women standing for elections at all levels in the political system — everything from Parish Councillor to MP?
Mindful that someone needs to stand up in elections as a GC candidate, I attended several of their online events a couple of years ago. They were useful and everyone on screen seemed female and the whole set-up very woman-centred. There were strong hints that I wasn't the only GC women in the virtual room. At least one of the other women went on to become a community councillor in Monmouth.
Anyway, with 2024 elections looming, a few weeks ago I crossed the border to Cardiff to attend the event Elect Her was involved in at the Senedd, figuring that general advice for Wales could be applied in my neck of the woods too. I shouldn't have been so surprised at how aggressively trans-friendly the event was (Elect Her was open to Hims as well) but over the course of a day, in various workshops, I saw GC woman after GC woman being silenced and shut down. At lunchtime in the cafe a woman, presumably one of the organisers from the lanyard around her neck, got very shouty with a woman of colour whom she'd overheard having a conversation about GC issues. When the GC woman said politely that she was having a private conversation the other woman went into 'I feel unsafe, call security' mode and for the rest of the event was accompanied by a security guard wherever she went.
Despite this joke of an event, when I got an email from Elect Her offering the chance to register for an online course called Equip Her, I thought I'd give it a go. I had to register and to do that I had to answer some questions: Do I identify as female? Do I identify as LGBTQIA+?
I've sent the obligatory fuck off with your identity politics nonsense email. I notice there's been a change of personnel. Someone called Lee Chalmers used to run it, now it's changed. Anyone involved? Thoughts? Inside information?