Jess Phillips appointed a minister to focus on tackling violence against women and girls and domestic violence.

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Jess Phillips has been appointed to the Labour government as a minister, focusing on tackling violence against women and girls and domestic violence.

The Labour MP has been a vocal campaigner on the subject, and has become known for reading out a list of all the women killed by men in the UK every year on International Women's Day in parliament.

Ms Phillips had the role of shadow domestic violence and safeguarding minister from 2020 to 2023 under Sir Keir Starmer but resigned over the party's stance on the Middle East conflict in November.

She was one of 56 Labour MPs - including eight frontbenchers - to vote in favour of an SNP motion calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Middle East.

This defied the Labour whip, and so Ms Phillips had to step aside.

More ... https://news.sky.com/story/jess-phillips-made-minister-following-frontbench-resignation-over-middle-east-13175726

It is not genitals baby - it is ALL about gonads...

Easy on there tiger.

That rage is not good for your health.

That marginalised group you are talking about managed to get almost every government in western world to change their method of classification from biological to gender.
They managed to get the departments of education to say that sex is a spectrum, the justice department to arrest and imprison people who questioned that, get the medical profession to join in by carving up healthy bodies and giving the ones who don't like being carved pills to do the altering.

Could you please explain how that is marginalised?

Re the gay rights thing - gender folk are really nasty to gey people.

I do not like that.

By removing their RIGHT to same sex attraction.

Not gender.

Not a spectrum.

Same SEX.

It is so agressively anti gay that I am campaigning again for gay rights.

This is a really good choice by the new govt and JP is absolutely the woman for the job. KS has been getting a lot of very sceptical side-eye on here (threads passim), not least by me.
This is good, well done KS, moar of this.

I'm interested in how this will play out to be honest, what with no prison space and men getting bailed left right and centre even when caught abducting young girls.

Crack on Jess and good luck.

This is very promising. Jess Phillips is a very forceful communicator and will make sure her brief is front and centre across Government activity.

It is inevitable at some point in her work, that clarification will be needed on the terms 'women and girls' and the type and nature of services needed to support them to avoid/resist/recover from and survive violence from males.

We will be ready to help Jess say the right words.

Really? VAWG should only focus on females. If there is a concern regarding violence against transwomen, then their specific situation needs to be dealt with in a specific manner. Or are you implying that VATW is exactly the same as VAWG? Including males who identify as women in the same category as females does neither demographic any good.

Absolutely.

I have my fingers crossed. I think her recent experiences may also clarify further for her how women are specifically targeted. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone, it was appalling behaviour but I really hope she’s able to connect that with the treatment meted out to gender critical women which is vastly more vicious than that experienced by gender critical men (on the whole).

Men will bully, harrass and intimidate women to get what they want.

It is inevitable at some point in her work, that clarification will be needed on the terms 'women and girls' and the type and nature of services needed to support them to avoid/resist/recover from and survive violence from males.

Agree.
And I think Jess knows exactly what a woman is, but she's a politician.
Sometimes it's easier to effect change from the inside.
I'm glad she's got the appointment.

This is excellent news. So important to have a woman in this role who has a proven track record of working with victims of DV and women’s refuges. She’s clear, articulate and passionate on this issue.

This is fabulous news! I love Jess Phillips and really admire the work that she's done in this area. Plus she's principled and gobby (in the nicest possible way), will stand up for what she believes in and make her voice heard. Great decision from KS.

Weather vane Jess. Of "spousal veto" fame, designed to trap women in abusive marriages.

<breaks out bunting>

That’s what I find so depressing about gender ideology, its reliance on regressive gender stereotypes.

Fifty years ago I had a Saturday job in a wool and embroidery shop. Our customers were mostly women and girls, but one regular was an elderly man who liked doing needlepoint and often came in for supplies.

One day, a mother came in with her young son. She was nonplussed that he showed an interest in embroidery and wanted her to buy him some threads and fabric so he could try it. Ardent young feminist that I was, I told her about the elderly man who liked doing needlepoint, implying that there was nothing wrong with a man or boy doing something traditionally thought of as “feminine”.

Nowadays I suspect the poor lad would have been encouraged to think he was really a girl, just because he liked traditionally feminine things like embroidery.

Damn. Another podcast lost!

Seriously- it's brilliant news. Good to hear that Starmer isn't scared of strong women.

Women are definitely real; they have reality; and if you are going to tackle the issue of predatory and/or violent male behaviour towrds women and girls you are going to need to ensure that you protect single sex spaces, for one.....which are there precisely for that reason.

If you cannot adequately define what a woman is, clearly, in the first instance, and the law provides no clarity, either, how do you think Jess Phillips could go about her task?

Tell me, what do you see as the " reality" of women's rights? What do you mean by "women's rights"? Can you define what these rights are?

Did you read about the 4 Kent schoolgirls who were sexually assaulted in the school toilets after their headteacher decided to turn the singles sex toilets into mixed sex toilets? It was just recently?

Actually, from our point of view, you’re hijacking feminism by redefining women to include men who think they’re women.

Transwomen have their own struggles in society and deserve compassion and support. But their experiences of life are not the same as women’s. Feminism has always been about women and women’s experiences and oppression.

A woman is an adult human female. That's it. It is really not any more complicated than that.

Exactly this. Violence against transwomen needs to be dealt with, but violence against women and girls is a separate issue.

In what ways has the world " moved on" if there is still a perceived need to have a minister especially appointed to deal with violence towards women and girls?

The basic facts of biology and physicality have not gone anywhere, and you cannot protect women and girls unless you accept that they require some dedicated spaces in certain types of circumstance which recognises these things; and which accords women and girls some basic dignity in the process.

This is fundamental stuff.

Infertile women, like me, are women. Transwomen are not. It is deeply offensive when you conflate the two separate groups.

What you call a narrow definition of woman encompasses over 3bn human beings of the female sex.

Penis people are men, no matter how they identify.

Hear hear!

im infertile because my female biology has malfunctioned not became I’m a fucking man!!

'Trans' refers to people who for whatever reason feel the need or desire to present as the opposite sex. Women are adult human females.Clear definitions are required if you want to protect the rights and dignity of each group. 'Trans' rights are not women's rights.

Simply being aggressive doesn't achieve anything, and it adds nothing to the discussion either. You won't scare people away by using words like "fuck" and "shite".

People have their posts deleted by Mumsnet for far less.

Women are adult human females - regardless of how they dress and whether or not they can get pregnant. Transwomen are male by definition, regardless of how they dress or present.

Gay men remain male even when dressed up and performing drag. Lesbians are still women even if they have short hair and a sleeve of tatoos.