LabourWomen’sDeclaration @LabWomenDec

@DailyMail We are inviting Labour MP's who have signed the EDM to discuss this very important issue and related topics with us. We are happy to meet in parliament or in their constituency.

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Labour Heartlands @Labourheartland

22 hours ago

“We could have been in a better place now if we had been able to have that dialogue ten years ago.” That was Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson, Chair of the EHRC, answering Rosie Duffield’s question on what service providers should now be doing to support women better. And she is right.

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@NadiaWhittomeMP You were told very clearly it had nothing to do with gender stereotypes, rather the reverse. Odd to put up a clip that shows you lack the capacity to understand this very basic point!

Pride, the old proverb warns, comes before a fall. And so it has proved. You can measure the fall precisely. Among Britain's largest corporations, social media posts mentioning Pride have collapsed by ninety-two per cent in two years. Manchester Pride, forty years old, went into liquidation owing creditors three million pounds. Reform councils in Durham, Gateshead and Staffordshire have cut the grants and hauled down the flags. The sponsors who once queued to wear the rainbow are walking away, and the names on the departure list read like a stock index. The easy story is that Britain is turning against gay people. The polling says otherwise. Only seven per cent of Britons hold a negative view of gay and lesbian people. The right to love your own sex, to marry, to live openly, has never been more widely accepted. That war is over. It was won. What the public has turned against is what Pride became while nobody was watching. Capital rented the flag and turned a riot into a retail opportunity. And behind the corporate floats came something worse: an ideology that brands same-sex attraction itself a heresy, that saw lesbians removed from a gay rights parade by police "for their own safety," and that watched eight Darlington nurses dragged through a tribunal for wanting a female changing room while their own union posted clenched fists against them. In 1984, Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners stood on street corners with collecting buckets for the coalfields, and the miners repaid the debt by carrying gay rights into the heart of the labour movement. That was solidarity of the old kind: it cost something, and it came with no sponsorship deal attached. Compare it with the unions of 2026, who found twenty-five thousand pounds for a Pride float and called women bigots for wanting to change in private. That is not solidarity. That is capture. So let us be clear about what is dying and what is not. Rainbow capitalism is dying, good riddance. The ideology that recast same-sex attraction as a heresy and women's rights as an obstacle deserves to die with it. What cannot die, because it was never for sale, is the thing underneath: people standing with people, the right to your own body and your own desire, and the solidarity that makes the demand stick. They built a movement so a man could love a man and a woman could love a woman. Then they called that love a heresy and rented the flag to any corporate taker. Pride comes before a fall. But the cause beneath it, love without shame, truth without fear, solidarity without sale, remains. Read the full article: labourheartlands.com/pride-and-fall/ #Pride #womensrightsmatter

Emily would prefer that small businesses and service providers pay for legal advice rather than have it explained to them for free by the EHRC.

Emily Thornberry @EmilyThornberry

15 hours ago

I've joined more than 120 colleagues in signing this EDM to reject the EHRC Code of Practice. Trans people deserve love and equality. I’m worried these new rules won't achieve that. We need a proper debate in Parliament on them, and what they mean for our trans constituents.

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The @UKLabour party declined to properly brief either its 2024 GE candidates or, subsequently, its new MPs about the law on sex and gender. Nor were the new intake adequately briefed about the party's 2023 policy pivot against self-ID and in support of single-sex meaning biological sex. This mistaken "say nothing, avoid this topic" approach has contributed to the current muddle and misapprehensions. However, these ill-informed EDM signatories who still cling to the policy of self-ID are not a majority within the PLP & they absolutely do not reflect the majority of Labour voters & members - who support the SC ruling. Our work to educate all our party's parliamentarians continues... And we also point out - SoS @bphillipsonMP & @10DowningStreet have approved & laid the @EHRC code to enter the statute book in July, after the current 40 day period. #TheLawIsTheLaw

The pattern of EDM signing worth a look. Labour and LDs shown separately in next 2 posts, as the most interesting ones here. Looked at by date of signing, sex, and year of election. 53% of women and fully 76% of men signing were elected in 2024 or after. 1/4

Ladies and gentlemen, it’s 2026 and there are MPs who think human beings can’t detect the difference between male and female members of our species with almost-perfect accuracy 🫠

Nadia Whittome MP @NadiaWhittomeMP

20 hours ago

Yesterday, I questioned the Chair of the EHRC about the new Code of Practice, and the harm it poses to trans people and others who do not conform to gender stereotypes. The Code suggests employees of a business or a service should enforce restrictions based on evidence such as

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Barrister and former shadow attorney general pretends not to understand how the law works and talks mawkish nonsense instead.

Emily Thornberry @EmilyThornberry

15 hours ago

I've joined more than 120 colleagues in signing this EDM to reject the EHRC Code of Practice. Trans people deserve love and equality. I’m worried these new rules won't achieve that. We need a proper debate in Parliament on them, and what they mean for our trans constituents.

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Some reading material for you @EmilyThornberry, in case you’re interested in understanding what will actually happen if the @EHRC Code is blocked open.substack.com/pub/withinthel…

The EHRC has clarified that sex, in itself, is not special category data. equalityhumanrights.com/equality/equal…

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More than 100 academics have urged the University of Oxford to reinstate a lecture series that was cancelled after protests from trans activists. In the letter, published in The Times on Thursday, they wrote: “It appears that the university proctors authorised and facilitated protests inside the lecture theatre and did nothing to remove miscreants." thetimes.com/uk/education/a…

“New rules” @EmilyThornberry? It’s statutory guidance. Surely you know the status of statutory guidance? Surely you understand it’s not law? And that if it’s blocked the law will simply remain the law? Incredible if not.

Emily Thornberry @EmilyThornberry

15 hours ago

I've joined more than 120 colleagues in signing this EDM to reject the EHRC Code of Practice. Trans people deserve love and equality. I’m worried these new rules won't achieve that. We need a proper debate in Parliament on them, and what they mean for our trans constituents.

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Fun fact: Alex Sobel hasn’t signed the EDM because of *trans people’s* Article 8 rights. He’s signed it because he was told, by a woman, that women also have Article 8 rights. And he didn’t like it.

Hi Emily, @emily4MK. We would like to invite you to discuss this very important issue and related topics with us. For anyone working in her offices reading this, please let her know. We are happy to meet in parliament or in your constituency.

Emily Darlington MP @emily4MK

15 hours ago

My statement on the Motion of Regret regarding the EHRC Code of Practice.

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Thank you to @glosswitch for writing such a fantastic piece for @TheCriticMag about our research: Life near Strip Clubs & #NoMoreStripClubs campaign. She powerfully captures the cognitive dissonance we feel in a society that claims to want to tackle #VAWG, yet continues to licence these exploitation venues. thecritic.co.uk/stop-selling-s…

What a stupid question. Have you ever read human rights legislation ? Family life is respected and recognised in law for everyone in the U.K. and the EU, everyone so sorry we can’t make the ones you are focused on more special but you can reassure them now.

Chocolatey - Purple-haired c*nt @WitchyMcWitch

17 hours ago

Are you just pretending to be stupid @alexsobel?

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Permitting opposite-sex searching gives men who have an erotic interest in cross-dressing, get a sexual thrill from exposing themselves to women or simply enjoy humiliating and intimidating women a way to do so inside the custody suite. Read more: sex-matters.org/posts/publicat…

A lawyer who doesn’t understand that the Code reflects the law 🤦‍♀️

Emily Thornberry @EmilyThornberry

15 hours ago

I've joined more than 120 colleagues in signing this EDM to reject the EHRC Code of Practice. Trans people deserve love and equality. I’m worried these new rules won't achieve that. We need a proper debate in Parliament on them, and what they mean for our trans constituents.

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I want to thank the Police Service of Northern Ireland and the emergency services for their bravery in dealing with violence in Belfast last night. There’s no place for racist thuggery in our country.