I have been a labour supporter for 30 years... ever since I can vote in fact. However, all that has changed this year. Identity politics has revealed to me the deeply misogynistic undertones throughout the party. No party who are so keen to refer to women 'as a feeling', who fail to recognise the hard won sex based rights of women or are prepared to throw strong, feminist women under a bus has no place for me. No idea where I'll turn but as the greens and liberals are just as bad, they're out too. I suspect my voting days are over. My lesbian partner feels the same. My lesbian friends all feel the same. Women I know, all feel the same.
3/7/2021 the dismissal of scientific TRUTH that has been known for millennia is what scares me most, it can only lead to chaosRead Now I'm working class, 50 years old and have voted Labour all my life. I've thought about voting The Green Party because of their environmental policies. It has been distressing and infuriating to see how ideologically captured 'progressive' (the irony) parties have become; ignoring women's and lesbians rights, voices, dignity and safety concerns as well as the safeguarding of children (that has horrified me) The vicious and misogynistic activism that has targeted any women who dissent or raise concerns (usually with compassion & a request for a reasonable discussion in an attempt to protect women's and trans rights) and how it has not been condemned by Labour or The Green Party is frightening. I am now politically homeless - how could I ever vote for a party that doesn't recognise objective reality? In some ways the dismissal of scientific TRUTH that has been known for millennia is what scares me most, it can only lead to chaos. I am so proud of all the women and men who are dedicating their lives to fighting this madness. Thank you - I know that many of you have suffered professionally and personally. I am in awe of your bravery and dedication.
I cancelled my direct debit for membership of the Labour Party after people on Twitter flagged anti-women statements on their website; after I'd got sick of waiting for someone to defend Rosie Duffield; and when I realised that they'd signed up to the mantra that "transwomen are women"
3/2/2021 When I asked why there was no Women's group I was told, by a female councillor, that there was no needRead Now I was an active Labour member for many years. When I asked why there was no Women's group I was told, by a female councillor, that there was no need. I nevertheless tried to form one but received no support at all. I left because the Party kept moving further and further Right but re-joined in order to support Corbyn. I once again left once I realised the Party was taking steps to erase women's rights and protections and All-Women-Shortlists. In the interim I was briefly a member of Left Unity because their strapline included feminism. Not long after I had joined I was told off by a branch grandee for raising a feminist issue (I no longer recall, possibly prostitution as I wanted Left Unity to campaign for the Nordic Model) on the grounds that such issues divided the cause. My branch eventually helped me raise the prostitution issue more widely but the Left Unity membership in general supported the legalisation (of pimps and brothels) model. I left the Party after a young (male)member submitted a motion viciously attacking radical feminists as they wanted harm to come to transgender people. The motion displayed profound ignorance on the issue but was nevertheless accepted without debate. When I emailed the female Labour councillor as local resident to complain I felt no longer comfortable using the local pool since it replaced the women's changing room with a 'gender neutral' one her two-sentence reply told me she saw people as people first. I am done with Left politics.
3/2/2021 I will not be voting for [Labour] again until they make a clear unequivocal defence of women’s sex-based rightsRead Now I have voted Labour at every General Election since the 1990’s. I will not be voting for them again until they make a clear unequivocal defence of women’s sex-based rights and a prioritising of biological facts over gender ideology.
3/2/2021 I will not vote for Labour, the Greens or the SNP again unless they start listening to womenRead Now I have always been on the left, which by my birth country's standards (France) is more to the left than in any English speaking countries. I was always a gay rights supporter. I have known transsexuals since I was 8 years old. Never had an issue with LGBT advocacy.
I knew that there was misogyny on the left, but the worst misogyny was always coming from the right, as far as I could see. That was until I became aware of transactivism and how the entire left supported it. The #metoo movement had only happened for a year or so when suddenly women were told to stop talking about male violence or male sexual behaviour ... because it was transphobic to recognise sex and the predatory behaviour of males. And the people shutting women down were left wing. I was a left wing SNP (Scottish national party) supporter after being labour for many years. But the way labour, the greens and the SNP are prioritising the rights of males to have full access to women over the rights of women to our own category, spaces and advocacy has lead me to leave the SNP. I will not vote for Labour, the Greens or the SNP again unless they start listening to women. 3/1/2021 It has also unleashed a wave of misogynist rage which I haven't seen in my lifetimeRead Now A few years ago, I was a paid up UK Labour member, was member of a union, and went out canvassing for Labour. I care about environmental issues, social and economics justice issues, and land reform. I have worked in unions and in left-wing think tanks. In short, I was and still am left-wing, and have consistently voted Labour or Green.
However, I can no longer do that, sadly. I have been shocked at the speed with which many in the Labour party and the Greens have embraced gender ideology, and turned against women who are critical of it. From the Greens hustings in which candidates debated 'what is a woman' (answers included 'an attitude', 'a state of mind') to Lisa Nandy's appalling Piers Morgan interview. The disgraceful so-called trans rights pledge which called for gender-critical women to be ousted from the Labour party. Oh and how could I forget Dawn Butler saying that 'children are born without a sex'. The list goes on. If it wasn't so dangerous, this would be hilarious. However it is dangerous. This ideology is unscientific and untethered from reality. It insists that we view ourselves as having a 'gender' rather than a 'sex' - which makes invisible the reality of sex. It undermines women's rights and harms children. It has also unleashed a wave of misogynist rage which I haven't seen in my lifetime. And the worst of it, from what I've seen, has come from left-wing men. So no, I haven't left the left, but the left has left me. I won't be voting for Labour or the Greens again until they regain their senses. I left the Labour Party shortly after the 12-point pledge went into circulation (in spring 2020) and was signed by most of the Labour shadow cabinet. I realise that Keir Starmer signed a pared back 10-point pledge but he still signed up to the claim that ‘Transwomen are women, and so I no longer trust the party, under his guidance, to protect single-sex provisions.
Moreover, I was disgusted at the party’s treatment of Rosie Duffield. Hardly any of her colleagues stuck up for her when she was slandered as transphobic. Not surprising, though, given that many in the shadow cabinet thinks Labour should follow the Liberal Democrat’s example and eject party members who claim that trans women are not women - which is a basic observance and a matter of scientific fact. 2/28/2021 all she did was parrot back a load of dubious trans rights blurb without a single mention of women’s rightsRead Now I left the Labour Party after Lisa Nandy and the other one signed a pledge to say women who support Women’s Place UK should be expelled from the party. I wrote to my MP explaining this and all she did was parrot back a load of dubious trans rights blurb without a single mention of women’s rights. Which is what I wrote to her about in the first place. She didn’t even ask me to stay... or reconsider. I won’t vote Labour again (lifelong member and voter) until this is fixed. I am now politically homeless.
I can’t used mixed toilets. I had a lucky escape some years ago. Toilets are not safe when men can access female toilets.
I hate what men are doing to women, they are not defending trans rights. They are misogynists that want to eradicate women’s rights. I am a woman, not something by any other name. I will not vote labor or greens and unless the liberal party stands up to defend the rights of natural born women and girls I will just scribble over the ballot papers and lodge a nil vote. |
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