An article about the demise of the Women's Equality Party

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Who killed the Women’s Equality Party? | Raquel Rosario Sánchez | The Critic Magazine

"Academic Heather Brunskill-Evans, the Women’s Equality Party former Spokeswoman on Violence Against Women, went through a Kafkaesque investigation following complaints about her feminist views. She went into the investigation thinking that she could “trust the process and that reason would prevail.” Instead, the investigation found against her, even though the leadership of the party would go on to do an about-turn and advocate the same positions that she was sanctioned for. She said:

The men who defamed me; calling me a nazi, a transphobe and far-right never faced any repercussions or faced any sanctions, whereas I was formally investigated for raising the alarm about concerns that the leadership later went on to support, like the importance of taking a careful approach on the transing of children. Today, I feel vindicated that my concerns have been proven correct, for example with the Cass Report. But I also feel sad, hurt, battered, and bruised in my experience within the Women’s Equality Party. The lesson in all of this is that if you give up women’s rights, any feminist political party is simply doomed to fail."

A sad read.

It’s a sad business. Many of us were optimistic that the party might actually achieve something for women.

I hadn’t realised some of them had launched another party. I can’t see it getting anywhere.

Thanks for posting the link.

It's a waste of time. I can't see the point tbh.

“When tensions reached a boiling point, the leadership was forced to consult its members about whether they would formally endorse sex self-identification (whether male people can become female people by stating the incantation: “I identify as a woman”), rather than impose it by stealth. The results were damning: 71 per cent of the membership voted in support for single-sex spaces and services.
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“Instead of accepting the voice of the membership that paid their very comfortable salaries (as leader, Reid had three separate deputies whereas her Labour and Conservative counterparts had to make do with only one deputy each) the Women’s Equality Party shelved the results of the consultation, hiding it for years.”

Woah! Until I read this, I was unaware this had occurred. What a powerful sign regarding just how many women who support women’s rights reject self-ID. Given many women must have already left the party over this issue, or been expelled, like Heather Brunskill-Evans, to still have 71% voting in support of single sex spaces and services is incredible.

Shocking though that there was no democracy in a women’s party that I thought was supposed to have been set up with democracy as a founding principle.

Also laughable that those who value themselves over women have now set up their own party. The idea of an equality party which excludes women who support women’s rights is almost as laughable as a women’s party doing the same.

Yes I was appalled by that as well @PriOn1, it looks like there's one right way to do Equality and the leaders will skew things until those pesky women at the grassroots stop protesting about things that affect their lives and start prostrating themselves to the glory of trans. Gah.

Heather Brunskill-Evans was treated abysmally.

That's astonishing. I was under the impression that the membership were consulted and had supported 'trans rights' at a time when 'be kind' was very much a thing. Now I see that the membership rejected it and the leadership didn't act on the vote? I mean it never should have been on the table for the 'Women's' Equality Party to centre blokes in dresses in the first place.

No, they went with what the bankrolling man with the adult male "trans child" demanded.

My mega thread

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4058470-the-big-lie-how-the-wep-was-always-about-gender-rather-than-sex