Nah
Labour brushes off women yet again:
The Government will not carry forward plans to rewrite the Equality Act 2010 that were aimed at protecting single-sex spaces, the Minister for Women and Equalities has confirmed.
Anneliese Dodds said there were no plans to update the existing legislation, which the Conservatives had promised to reform ahead of the general election.
Because women don’t matter. Men matter, and men who pretend to be women really matter, but women are so much lint on the sweater of life.
The Tories planned to rewrite the Act in order to make it clear that “sex” in the legislation means “biological sex” instead of the gender with which a person identifies.
This would have allowed public bodies to stop transgender women entering women’s lavatories or changing rooms, as well as preventing them joining all-female sports teams.
And probably many of the other intrusions and grabbings and exploitings transgender “women” have been relishing for so long. Naturally Labour can’t let that happen.
This surprises me, since women are about half the voting population in any genuine democracy, and the first rule for politicians is ‘don’t get the voters offside.’ And as the proportion of transwhatevers of both sexes is so small, they cannot have much clout as a lobby group.
Bribery with $$$$ maybe?
Anneliese Dodds is real woman, not a pretend woman, I suppose, so apparently it’s not just men who think women don’t matter.
It’s probably mostly women that think women don’t matter (in this context) under the “be kind” doctrine/impulse. “TWAW” is certainly a minority view. The men are just the primary beneficiaries.
You gotta somehow play the persuasion game to convince people that “be kind” is wrong and that’s a tough row to hoe.
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Even now, though, too few women grasp the consequences of gender ideology to have much clout, and many of those who do will still have voted Labour in July because of how awful the Conservatives have been on many other issues, including some that disproportionately harm women.
Difficult to see any reason for optimism as there may soon be practically no division between the two parties on this: a few days ago the current frontrunner for the Conservative leadership, Robert Jenrick, dismissed single-sex spaces as a culture war issue. (There may be some hope in the ongoing For Women Scotland case about the meaning of ‘woman’ and whether it includes men with a GRC.)
Ally, it’s always been that way. The suffragists had to deal with anti-suffrage women, and the men loved to send those women out to campaign against women’s rights. Look, the women don’t want it! It’s just a few old, ugly harpies!
And Muslim women who defend the hijab as being a ‘choice’ and a good source of comfort for them so they aren’t ogled or grabbed or whatever…look, the women want this. It’s only a few contrarian women!