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.
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