LABOUR WOMEN'S DECLARATION

I have been a life long labour supporter but can no longer put my vote behind them - Rosie Duffield has been brave enough to stand up and say what we are all thinking. The Labour party support silencing women and eroding our safe spaces.

Please do something about the harassment suffered by Rosie Duffield and anyone else brave enough to voice their opinions on this subject. Please create an environment in which people are not afraid to hold a healthy debate on this issue.

I am not usually political but the constant attacks on women’s rights and protected spaces has horrified me

Women's sex based rights need defending, the discrimination, terrible abuses and murders reported daily prove this, as if there's any doubt about the reality of having a female body. If the Laboutr party cannot see this, how can you honour the acts and memory of the suffragettes and every female activist who has and continues to fight for female equality. We all know the biological reality, be brave enough to stand up for this and gain back Labour votes.

There are 2 sexes. Women are one of them. Regardless of what people want to call us, ciswomen, biological women, or just the traditional ‘women,’ we are a distinct, closed group, only open to those born female. Because of experiences arising from our female birth status, we have unique characteristics not shared by those not born female. We must be able to organise and advocate for ourselves on this basis and not be told we must accept those who think they have the psychology or identity of women. They might - but that’s not the principle that shapes our lives - it’s our bodies and the social experience arising from our bodies.

If Sir Keir does not address this issue and vote for women's right against transgender ideology, surgical and pharmacological harm to young people and the hate speech organised within the Labour Party against gender critical feminists, this issue will hurt Labour so hard on the husting, as it has the Lib Dems and the Green's already. Rosie Duffield's stand is brave and intelligent. A voice of sanity against the bizarre claim that 'Transwomen are Women' (in other than a performative sense), as is understood by many brave transexuals.

Starmer’s silence on the abuse suffered by Rosie Duffield is almost worse than criticising her. At least we know where Rayner stands and can know never to support her again. Or her Party

Insisting that TWAW produces absurd and unfair results re single sex provision/women’s sport etc. The more this agenda is pushed the more it reaches mainstream media, at which point the ideology is subject to sense- checking by ‘ordinary’ people who exist outside the political/social media bubble that has nurtured it. This means that at some point Labour will need to take a stance one way or the other. The issue is not going away. I’m giving my party membership one final chance.

This was a big factor in my leaving the party. Starmer's both-sideism was the final straw.

I don’t agree with my MP on this. I do think that sex based rights need protection. I also think trans rights are human rights. Both and co-exist.

I can't believe that in 2020 we're STILL having to fight to have women's rights respected... even in the Labour Party!

I left the party over this.

I am very disappointed that , despite the huge and long struggle women have had to gain even the most basics equal rights in the workplace and sport, that the Labour Party is so ready to deny the very basis of what it means to be a woman and to join with those who abuse those who’ve long campaigned for our rights and who continue to bravely speak out against the vitriol of those who deny us the essence of womanhood.

My rights as a born woman should out way those of a born man who choose to identify as a woman on any given day.

I ❤ Rosie Duffield

Women need sex based protections for our survival, and have the right to dignity and respect. This includes protection of our identity. The position Labour is taking is misogynist, heartless and, frankly, ridiculous. Biology is a physical reality; gender is a social construct

As a lifelong labour supporter I feel politically homeless- how can I support a party that does not stand up for women’s rights?

Women have fought for their sex based rights for centuries. We are not about to give them up to a group of misogynists.

I have been a labour voter all my life and care about people's rights. However, I would be concerned with the effect of self-id on prisoners. I have worked in male and female prisoners. I am particularly concerned about the effects of self-id in prisons for people who don't have a diagnosis of gender dysphoria and who haven't undergone any medical treatment. It has happened in Ireland, it will happen in the UK if natal females are not protected. 1 in 50 male prisoners have said they would selfID as female if it was an option. In December 2019 there were around 78000 men in prison and 4500 women. If 1 in 50 men self-id then that is 1560 people, a third of the total female population. Most natal female prisoners (over 60%) have experienced sexual or domestic abuse. Rates of self-harm are significantly higher amongst female prisoners. The number of females in prison on non-violent offenses as a result of drug use is higher than in men. There are high rates of PTSD and so many of these women would have been self-medicating their trauma with drugs resulting in their crimes. Men have higher rates of violent or sexual offences. A large Swedish study found that natal males kept their higher rates of offending versus females even after transition to female. Studies looking at current transgender women in prison have found 60 of the 125 current trans-women prisoners are in for sexual offences (48%). Even if these numbers are artificially high due to less severe offenders no coming to the attention of prison officers, rates of sexual offending will be higher than in natal females. Can we really throw away the rights of these most vulnerable women in society to access to a safe space away from fear of rape? I am also concerned that the reasonable arguments for keeping the most vulnerable natal females in society safe are not being heard in the manner of a reasoned debate, but voices are being shut down and those who raise this issue threatened with expulsion from the pa

Dear Keir, this is not going away.