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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Women's and Equalities Select Committee

134 replies

ArabellaSaurus · 28/10/2025 13:55

Welcomes Nadia Whittome, Kim Leadbetter, and Kevin McKenna.

This is very, very bad news for women.

https://x.com/CommonsWEC/status/1983110894835130644

Women & Equalities Committee (@CommonsWEC) on X

We welcome new members @kimleadbeater, Kevin McKenna MP and @NadiaWhittomeMP to the Committee 🤝

https://x.com/CommonsWEC/status/1983110894835130644

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SionnachRuadh · 28/10/2025 14:00

I thought the committee couldn't possibly get any worse, but clearly Labour are spoiling us.

ItsCoolForCats · 28/10/2025 14:00

Nadia Whittome is so utterly ridiculous, maybe this move will backfire.

DontBuyANewMumCashmere · 28/10/2025 14:00

Fucksake

OhBuggerandArse · 28/10/2025 14:02

It is such appallingly bad news that I think we need to start a campaign to register our fears. No point in contacting the Chair of the Committee who is as bad as any of them - would letters to boring dreadful Kier work? Lord knows the new Deputy Leader won't help. Judicial review? Who technically has oversight over committee formation and management? I'm not clear how far this is a Labour Party issue and how much a Parliament issue - can anyone shed light?

ErrolTheDragon · 28/10/2025 14:08

You’d think there would be two necessary conditions for being on the committee - firstly clear understanding what ‘women’ doe and doesn’t mean, and secondly a grasp of what ‘equality’ means.

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OhBuggerandArse · 28/10/2025 14:17

Christine Jardine also a notorious TRA.

TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 28/10/2025 15:07

Maybe there's an Ombudsman that we could complain to, this is gerrymandering of a government committee, there should be some rule against it. 😠

MonsterMunchLabubu · 28/10/2025 15:15

Thanks Labour. You just have a load more votes to Reform.

Slow hand clap.

moto748e · 28/10/2025 15:27

Nadia Whittome? Unbelievable. 😡

timesublimelysilencesthewhys · 28/10/2025 15:32

Blimey.

Whatthechicken · 28/10/2025 17:03

Personally I think, and have done for a while that they are going to try to change the Equality Act so the Supreme Court Ruling is irrelevant. I think we are entering into extremely vulnerable territory.

FarriersGirl · 28/10/2025 17:16

Bad news indeed. Just when it looked as if some small progress was being made by Labour

ScoldsBridal · 28/10/2025 17:35

Well who decided who gets onto the committee? Because this looks like a concerted effort to steer things in a very distinct direction. Is it window dressing to appease those upset with Wes Streeting? Does it have teeth or will it just allow for a load of empty, virtue-signalling and make out that the government really care about trans people?

We know it’s not about protecting women’s sex-based rights at all because none of those MPs care about that. Are labour panicking because they think the Greens are storming ahead in the polls with their TWAW stance. Because if they are, I think they’re digging themselves further and further into the electoral grave.

Theeyeballsinthesky · 28/10/2025 17:48

It's definitely bad news. According to the process laid out here, they were selected by a secret ballot of Labour Party MPs so a lot of more labour MPs hate women than even we thought and it's almost certainly a plan to derail the equality act guidance https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/election-select-committee-chairs-and-members

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Election of select committee chairs and members in the House of Commons | Institute for Government

This explainer sets how select committee chairs and members are elected.

https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/election-select-committee-chairs-and-members

nicepotoftea · 28/10/2025 17:52

ArabellaSaurus · 28/10/2025 13:55

Welcomes Nadia Whittome, Kim Leadbetter, and Kevin McKenna.

This is very, very bad news for women.

https://x.com/CommonsWEC/status/1983110894835130644

I think it might be more bad news for the Labour Party.

moto748e · 28/10/2025 17:56

I don't regret not voting Labour in the last election, and they won't be getting my vote anytime soon if they are catapulting idiots like NW into important roles. Clearly large parts of the PLP cannot be trusted. Standing by and doing nothing is lunacy from the Front Bench.

SionnachRuadh · 28/10/2025 17:59

I don't like to be rude about our MPs, but the only reason you'd put Nadia Whittome on a select committee is if Elmo and the Cookie Monster are unavailable.

FarriersGirl · 28/10/2025 18:03

Nadia is not my MP THANK GOD! But she is relatively local and is completely barking. Some parts of Nottingham are starting to resemble Brighton/Bristol in terms of flags/rainbows etc. Unfortunately this is likely to drive swathes of the electorate into the arms of Reform, who did well in this area at the last local elections.

Redshoeblueshoe · 28/10/2025 18:04

FFS

Dragonasaurus · 28/10/2025 18:09

I think that an email to Wes Streeting might have more of an effect that an email to Kier
a) Kier won’t see anything sent to him unless his gatekeepers let it through
b) Wes is already onboard with biological sex (and, given this is an updated position, he’s presumably thought it through)
c) he’s clearly ambitious and may well be interested in hearing about what real people want
Or, we could do a petition for parliament to debate ways in which parliament can ensure the SC decision is implemented asap
Thoughts?

Sausagenbacon · 28/10/2025 18:12

Love this response on twitter
You know, if you just got rid of the committee altogether and said 'we couldn't give a fuck about women', you'd actually be less misogynist, insulting and gaslighting than this shite.

SionnachRuadh · 28/10/2025 18:13

The trouble with Streeting is that one of the biggest elements in the PLP is the Stop the Wes Coalition. And it's the PLP who are the problem.

Bridget Phillipson actually has the women and equalities brief, and I don't believe has a high opinion of the current committee, but I don't know how much ice she cuts at the moment.

Talkinpeace · 28/10/2025 18:18

All were elected unopposed
ie the pro women and pro disabled and pro lesbian MPs did not put themselves forward

moto748e · 28/10/2025 18:23

Talkinpeace · 28/10/2025 18:18

All were elected unopposed
ie the pro women and pro disabled and pro lesbian MPs did not put themselves forward

Maybe for a smart and ambitious back-bencher, that committee is not where you want to be in terms of career advancement?

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