Women's and Equalities Select Committee

[ArabellaSaurus]

Welcomes Nadia Whittome, Kim Leadbetter, and Kevin McKenna.

This is very, very bad news for women.

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

They should just be honest and call it the Stonewall Committee. That's what it's been for years. Other equality issues rarely even get a look in.

Oh, EDI hires then, that always works so well.

As it is a Committee Is there any point in writing to The Speaker?

you could ask them why their definition of women includes Men with lady feelings and their definition of lesbian includes men with lady feelings who want to fuck women

then it will be clear

Then they will be handing the next election to Reform on a plate as Farage strategically weaponises this issue just as Trump and the Republicans did in the US. The whole TWAW and medically/surgically damaging young people does not go down well with the electorate at large. Throw in immigration and it’s a slam dunk for reform god help us. I didn’t vote Labour but am so so disappointed by their inanity and poor policy decisions. Budget will be grim.

Labour has always been misogynist. This proves they are lying in their teeth about equality and implementing the SC judgement, not to mention having a proper enquiry into grooming gangs.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

Why do you assume women, even lesbian women, being appointed are EDI hires? Seems a bit prejudiced

The prejudice being pointed out is yours - your assumption that someone with particular background would have particular views, and would hence be a good or bad hire. You're the one viewing them as EDI hires.

Unlike you, we're assuming nothing based on them being women or lesbian - we know who they are and what their views actually are. We and they have been around this a long time.

As opposed to the lady feelings of those losing it over 0.5% of the population?

Get a grip…

https://x.com/reformexposed/status/1983069159433842930

I guess we’re about to find out what Mary-Ann Stephenson is made of.

Yes I think we really are

Labour are heading the same way as the Democrats. And we all know what happened there.

the LibDem woman is awful.

Has Alex Brewer shared her view on whether TWAW?

I agree.

Is this our ‘Kamala is for they/them..’ moment?

Christine Jardine

I doubt Reform pay all that much attention to this committee. But the Tories might.

You may be correct. I 'know' - via an online forum - rather a lot of Lab activists. They are, without exception, opposed to women's sex-based rights. One, who didn't get involved in the arguments over the SC judgment, recently announced that he 'like most Labour members' opposed the SC ruling, but (as a believer in democracy and the rule of law,v unlike...) would seek to change the EA.

My heart sank just a bit further, as I had hoped Lab might slowly return to sanity (LDs or GINOs are a lost cause for the foreseeable).

I agree, although I would add that they also believe they're right and they're not going to let anyone prove their wrong, because where would that leave them then.

It's ironic that Whittome et al fundamentally align with Dominic Saab's comment that “From the cradle to the grave, men are getting a raw deal. Feminists are now amongst the most obnoxious bigots.”

I was wondering, if Reform get in, how long this particular committee would last.

It's a race to destroy the EA first, but who will win, Nigel or Nadia?