Election thread: candidate views on sex and gender

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Is there a resource anywhere to look up local candidate views on sex and gender?

Could we create it here?

Does anyone know where Rachel Reeves and Bridget Phillipson stand with this?

Could you please not derail the thread?

Derail? I gave you 70 names to get you started, but sure, crack on.

They're not linked to constituencies, though. Which is what this thread is doing - people are feeding back responses from candidates in their constituencies.

Neat slippy-slide from "wanting to know a candidate's views on gender" to "solely based" on whether they are GC.

We might just want to make sure that GC issues haven't been forgotten by any of our candidates, Or given a choice of two similar candidates, one's GC, one isn't, we'll pick GC ta very much. This isn't America, we have multiple parties to choose from and abortion is a free vote not party whipped. So thanks for telling me my Conservative candidate isn't on the list of shame.

Yesterday on the high street my Labour candidate handed me a leaflet with a questionnaire about what my important issues are for this election. Got an online link too. So I filled it in and let'em know.

I've read that the deadline for candidate submissions is June 7th so I guess there won't be a full list published until then.

In the meantime, it's always interesting to see just how discomforting the idea of asking questions of our electoral candidates can be.

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/timetable-for-the-2024-general-election/

I see someone has shared https://www.respectmysexcampaign.co.uk/
I also suggest you join https://www.womensrights.network/join-wrn and meet likeminded women locally to campaign for women’s rights

I will be voting to help stop my autistic, troubled daughter from mutilating herself and with all the other mothers of troubled children.

I will be voting to prevent women in prison being raped.

I will be voting to prevent women in hospitals and psych wards being raped.

I will be voting to ensure that women rape victims have full access to single sex counselling and support without being gaslighted or required to 'reframe their traumas'.

I will be voting so that women in work can politely express their political views without being abused and without being sacked.

I could not vote for any MP or any political party that stood against these things. I cannot see how anyone could reconcile it with their conscience to do so.

To underline how important contacting and reporting the views of local candidates is that Sophie Sparkles/Molly the notorious AGP candidate in Scotland has just been suspended by the Scottish Greens because sunlight was directed in his direction. This is a major win. Even the Scottish Greens know real women in the end. It would not have happened if we didn't act.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5081446-the-scottish-greens-are-revolting-thread-2?page=2

Right NOW is when individual voters have the greatest power. Use it. The existence of biology is going to be coming up in this election. Keep pushing it.

Raising the issues is MORE important than deciding on your individual vote. Even better getting together with others and protesting and attending hustings.

One could ask:

Will your party

1. Implement the Cass Report and stop transitioning children in schools
2. Drop dangerous plans to criminalise so-called “conversion therapy”
3. Make the Equality Act clearer so that it refers to biological sex
4. Guarantee women’s right to female-only spaces
5. Say no to legal gender self-ID
6. Record sex accurately in healthcare and the criminal justice system
7. Fix the sex data muddle with modern data systems
8. Protect women’s sports
9. Make regulators do their job and protect everyone’s rights?

I've just emailed all 4 candidates in my constituency using the template suggested above. Let's see what they say

I emailed 3 candidates yesterday with the WRN suggested generic e-mail (hadn't the time to write my own).

I received one reply from Labour - it's a stock response about Gaza...?! So I replied to that with my own e-mail saying thanks but can you address my concerns about women and children's rights, safety and dignity... and then I received the SAME stock Gaza response.

I've now e-mailed a standalone message to say please reply to my previous e-mail properly not giving a stock response about "a different subject" (I don't want to write Gaza in case there's some bot that fires off automated e-mails based on what is discussed).

I have my suspicions this candidate is GC and outlined in my e-mail that I'm disappointed she's not come forwards in support of Rosie Duffield or used her platform to champion women's rights....

Anyone else got strange stock responses nothing to do with the questions you asked??

I have campaigned in the past with and for Caroline Voaden. I have stood for parliament myself and been a local councillor. I have been clear that men cannot become women via surgery drugs and clothes and now am neither a candidate or a councillor after receiving multiple vexatious complaints from other Lib Dems all of which I have won in the end but which prevented me being a candidate at the time. Caroline has previously confirmed that it is impossible for anybody in the Liberal Democrat Party to assert biological reality without being cancelled. She has perhaps taken a decision to capitulate in order to placate Lib Dem HQ and have a shot at being an MP; I feel really sad about that. I was about to campaign for her but am now going to support another candidate who is clear about single sex rights.

I got a reply from the reform candidate about 2 hours after my email, sharing concerns about women's spaces and agreeing that sex matters.
Letter from my conservative MP agreeing that biological sex and single sex spaces are the priority.
Nothing for labour or Lib Dem's.