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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

The Times Lead Story - Labour Set To Annihilate Women's Rights

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Arealnumber · 23/06/2024 23:07

Labour to simplify ‘undignified’ gender transition process

www.thetimes.com/article/29648ec1-5b29-4b35-97df-2a443c71d7e0?shareToken=fd3bf0c5a080ae78044dd82770d8e1a7

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Ereshkigalangcleg · 24/06/2024 10:12

Agree @LonginesPrime

nauticant · 24/06/2024 10:13

That was a very neutral discussion on Woman's Hour. The so-called "spousal veto" was mentioned in passing but in terms that would have left most of the audience clueless as to why some women believe it's important to be retained.

ScrollingLeaves · 24/06/2024 10:19

nauticant · 24/06/2024 10:13

That was a very neutral discussion on Woman's Hour. The so-called "spousal veto" was mentioned in passing but in terms that would have left most of the audience clueless as to why some women believe it's important to be retained.

Yes, could we write to them?

I also heard those nauseating words ‘less heat, more light’ ‘the debate’.

Here is what the (Starmer-sidelined) Labour Women’s Feclaration wrote about the spousal clause:
labourwomensdeclaration.org.uk/the-spousal-consent-clause-in-the-gra-an-important-protection-for-women/

ActivePeony · 24/06/2024 10:25

Daffodilsugar · 24/06/2024 07:21

I don’t understand the drama about this, I really don’t.
The only thing regarding trans people that is actually an issue is people who have gone through male puberty competing in female sports - maybe a third category of sports events would solve that but even so, not all people are into competitive sport so it stands to reason not all trans people are. It’s probably not that much of an issue.
I really don’t see how making it easier for people who are struggling, because trans people are born that way they aren’t doing it for a laugh is destroying women’s rights. For a start there are transitions both ways and there have been trans people since time immemorial, they just didn’t have the voice.
It seems incredibly selfish to want to deny a group of people, most of whom you will never meet, happiness.
All I ever read on here is - we need single sex spaces. I don’t understand why, these people aren’t out to get you they are living their own lives. And let’s be honest once a trans woman has gone through the dressing over the top wearing too much make up stage that all of us went through as teens when we became women, you don’t even know. They look like the rest of us. You might well have known trans people in your life and had no idea.
Think Mumsnet is an echo chamber of fear on this issue. I don’t need to tell you to think about the way other groups of people have been treated in the past - you know it. Trans people have the same impact on your life as those other groups did people in the past - none whatsoever.
And if the new government will make it easier for people to find happiness then good for them.

As the TRAs would say - you need to educate yourself! In all seriousness you appear to have no grasp of the issues here so I would go away and see what is actually happening and then get back to us.

ActivePeony · 24/06/2024 10:28

Ereshkigalangcleg · 24/06/2024 09:37

I have never, ever trusted Wes following that @AlisonDonut - I wasn't on "the list" but I was a Labour member at the time and I saw it when Madigan and friends had it as a public access document. I also saw the group.

He was on LBC this morning saying that he was 'disappointed' in JKR, persecuted minority, just want to live their lives, terribly hard to get a GRC blah blah blah.
I thought he had turned a corner and now realise that he has not. Depressing.

ActivePeony · 24/06/2024 10:31

Clavinova · 24/06/2024 09:31

Tootsweets23
They said they'd listen, they said they'd moderate their position. They roll out Wes Streeting and you have some hope they aren't totally ridiculous

I wouldn't bank on Wes Streeting. He was spouting some ridiculous nonsense on LBC ten minutes ago about women not having to wear dresses or being tied to the kitchen sink (with a reference to his mum and sister) - and yes, he was answering a question on Labour's gender recognition plans.

Yes I heard this. Saying that we must not be dragged back to old fashioned gender roles....erm......

Clearly doesn't have a clue or is being very disingenuous. Either way - utterly crap.

Melroses · 24/06/2024 10:34

RoyalCorgi · 24/06/2024 09:38

Why are Labour so stupid? This is the question I keep asking. They bang on about protecting women's single-sex spaces and then come up with this shit.

Starmer is a lawyer. You'd expect him to understand that if you enshrine a lie into law, then it will have consequences. You can't simply declare that men can be women without that having an impact in very many areas, from data gathering to sports to prisons. It's a bit like declaring that from now on, 2 +2 = 5, and imagining that that won't affect anyone.

I don't believe they are stupid.

Why do they want to do this? Why the huge investment in obfuscation? Where is the pressure to do this coming from, and where is the duty to protect people vulnerable to this?

CantDealwithChristmas · 24/06/2024 10:37

ActivePeony · 24/06/2024 10:28

He was on LBC this morning saying that he was 'disappointed' in JKR, persecuted minority, just want to live their lives, terribly hard to get a GRC blah blah blah.
I thought he had turned a corner and now realise that he has not. Depressing.

Streeting is INCREDIBLY ambitious for Starmer's job one day, so he's happy to mouth the key messages he's been given for this week by Labour apparatchiks

ActivePeony · 24/06/2024 10:37

Must be financial, some big donations maybe?

ActivePeony · 24/06/2024 10:37

CantDealwithChristmas · 24/06/2024 10:37

Streeting is INCREDIBLY ambitious for Starmer's job one day, so he's happy to mouth the key messages he's been given for this week by Labour apparatchiks

Yes he really is. No integrity, just like Starmer.

Mycatsmudge · 24/06/2024 10:38

Chersfrozenface · 24/06/2024 09:28

The paper is quoting the Labour party's own words and drawing attention to them.

So no, not whipping up fear.

Blowing the whistle. Sounding a warning.

The Times Journalist are actually doing their job by highlighting what’s in Labour’s manifesto i.e. their intentions when they assume power in 2weeks’ time. Not all those who claim to be trans have body dysphoria, many have Autogynephilia defined as a male's propensity to be sexually aroused by the thought of himself as a female. It is the paraphilia that is theorized to underlie transvestism and some forms of male-to-female (MtF) transsexualism.

CorruptedCauldron · 24/06/2024 10:38

That was a very neutral discussion on Woman's Hour. The so-called "spousal veto" was mentioned in passing but in terms that would have left most of the audience clueless as to why some women believe it's important to be retained.

I think keeping people in the dark is a strategy that has proved to be a winning one for the trans lobby. If all you are told by the likes of the BBC is ‘there’s a vulnerable group of people who feel uncomfortable in their own skin, let’s be kind to them’, then most people are unlikely to object to that. When you look more closely at what is happening, you realise that this ideology is being allowed to spiral out of control, destroying women’s rights, wrecking child safeguarding and erasing gay people. All we’re asking for is some boundaries for pete’s sake. We’re not saying men aren’t allowed to wear dresses and call themselves Mary.

RoyalCorgi · 24/06/2024 10:41

The "spousal veto" is yet another example of TRAs controlling the message by controlling the language. The so-called spousal veto isn't a veto at all - it's just a way of allowing women to leave a marriage when the husband decides he's really a woman.

Kai125 · 24/06/2024 10:44

Well I was going to spoil my ballot paper ... but not now!

You've just swung me into the Tory camp. God save us all!!

Although not convinced they're any safer with women's rights.

Do we know yet if that leading MP has a trans child?

EvangelistaSister · 24/06/2024 10:45

Mycatsmudge · 24/06/2024 08:02

I’m a middle age woman and I was recently recalled for further investigations after a routine mammogram. The breast clinic was entirely female staffed from the consultant to the HCA. The trust has a separate male breast clinic. I had to have an ultrasound and a biopsy both of which were uncomfortable, intrusive and exposed but absolutely necessary procedures to determine whether cancer was present. I was so grateful for this single sex space and it helped immensely for me to feel safe at what was otherwise a stressful and worrying time. This is just one example why woman need single sex spaces.

If Labour allows self ID these women only spaces will have to accept trans women staff and patients but still claim it is a women’s only clinic. If anyone questions this or objects they will be labelled transphobes and bigots. I suspect some biological women will be put off attending these clinics as a result, with an increase in them dying from undetected and untreated cancers.

Imagine having a smear performed by a man who has identified as woman?

Chariothorses · 24/06/2024 10:49

Labour's determination to remove the Spousal exit clause would leave women forced into marriages that have been forcibly 'converted' to same sex marriages in law. The original record is replaced with a new falsified record stating both parties were 'female' when the marriage took place and if it took place in a church, it is reregistered as taking place in a registry office (as far as I can recall). It is forced 'sexuality' conversion of heterosexual women into what the law records as 'lesbian' women in 'lesbian' marriages (and will 'trans away the gay' from a same sex marriage originally between 2 women if one decides they are a man). This from a party that says they want to end forced sexual orientation conversion. The hypocrisy and cruelty towards women is shocking.

OvaHere · 24/06/2024 10:53

Chariothorses · 24/06/2024 10:49

Labour's determination to remove the Spousal exit clause would leave women forced into marriages that have been forcibly 'converted' to same sex marriages in law. The original record is replaced with a new falsified record stating both parties were 'female' when the marriage took place and if it took place in a church, it is reregistered as taking place in a registry office (as far as I can recall). It is forced 'sexuality' conversion of heterosexual women into what the law records as 'lesbian' women in 'lesbian' marriages (and will 'trans away the gay' from a same sex marriage originally between 2 women if one decides they are a man). This from a party that says they want to end forced sexual orientation conversion. The hypocrisy and cruelty towards women is shocking.

Maybe when Labour also bring in the Conversion Therapy Bill these women can use that as a basis to take legal action against the government for forced conversion?

CaveMum · 24/06/2024 10:55

RoseAndGeranium · 24/06/2024 09:50

I’m voting Tory and joining the party. It’s a basket case right now but if enough moderates enter maybe we can elect a decent leader and then exert pressure to turn the ship around. I say this as someone who was until a couple of years ago a life long Lib Dem voter. Never voted Labour as Labour despises agriculture and the countryside and always has.

I’m leaning towards your way of thinking. I’m a centrist (right leaning) but never been a member of any party, I vote whichever way the wind takes me. I was starting to lean towards Labour, particularly given the current Government circus, but not now.

The idea of joining the Conservatives just to try and ensure a sane opposition going into the next Parliament is tempting…

AlisonDonut · 24/06/2024 10:56

Kai125 · 24/06/2024 10:44

Well I was going to spoil my ballot paper ... but not now!

You've just swung me into the Tory camp. God save us all!!

Although not convinced they're any safer with women's rights.

Do we know yet if that leading MP has a trans child?

I believe that there was evidence that at least one of his children was referred to as two difference sexes on two different occasions.

Once as 'daughter' and once as 'son'.

So he cannot be impartial. I imagine most MPs have university educated children who have been indoctrinated into the Borg.

tobee · 24/06/2024 11:04

I think that that "evidence" is flimsy.

Chariothorses · 24/06/2024 11:04

And the cruelty doesn't end here. It's a direct attack by labour on freedom of belief (eg in reality) and religious freedom. Currently an interim GRC is issued to a man who says he's a woman (if his wife does not agree she's a lesbian because he says so), and wants the marriage ended before she is forcibly 'converted' against her will. Either partner can action this to end the marriage by annulment.

Ending this option will have a catastrophic lifelong consequence for some women. Some religious women will be unable to exit abusive marriages at all:
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/eight-things-you-have-to-know-about-the-churchs-teaching-on-divorce

Others will divorce but never be able to remarry. Many women will be subject to long term abuse and coercive control. The change in name of their husband makes legal processes eg for splitting assets more complicated and men can draw it out for years whilst wives and children live in poverty.

Eight Things You Have To Know About The Church's Teaching On Divorce

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https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/eight-things-you-have-to-know-about-the-churchs-teaching-on-divorce

parkrun500club · 24/06/2024 11:06

RoyalCorgi · 24/06/2024 10:41

The "spousal veto" is yet another example of TRAs controlling the message by controlling the language. The so-called spousal veto isn't a veto at all - it's just a way of allowing women to leave a marriage when the husband decides he's really a woman.

Is it still needed? I ask that because divorces are now much easier to get and there's no fault required. I would imagine that you could get a divorce within the two year period quite easily.

The government website says you can get a divorce within about 7 months but I don't know how much that would be delayed by one party saying they don't want to.

MaidOfAle · 24/06/2024 11:06

PuffyFluffin · 24/06/2024 08:20

I've posted on this topic before, and as more is being revealed about Labour's cosy relationship with men pretending to be women, the more adamant I am that I won't vote for them. I owe this to myself, and the women of this country and the girls who will be impacted this, so that when Labour are running the country in a couple of weeks at least I can know that I didn't back their terrible disregard for women.

I want women to be defined as anyone who has two X chromosomes (and yes, that includes those poor unfortunate souls born XXY (if that's what they want) since they didn't choose that).

It's the absence of a Y chromosome that defines female. XO (Turner Syndrome) people are women.

The Y chromosome is what makes the testicles etc appear. Kleinfelter people (XXY) are male.

2021x · 24/06/2024 11:07

I have read the article and I don’t see the issue. They are just removing some paperwork that it is reporting that most trans people don’t have anyway. It sounds like this system is broken and pointless and not fit for purpose, and making the process simpler may free up some resources that can be deployed elsewhere.

I personally would like to know the process of diagnosing someone with gender dysphoria. I would also like some un-biased research into measurements regarding the changes to both sexes when they undergo HRT. This would be very simple to do even a grip strength test to start with.

I would also like Labour to demonstrate that they support women by removing the unnecessary paperwork around terminations. It is upsetting that this is a priority but women in the UK in 2024 STILL have to be signed off as “mentally unwell” by 2 doctors!!