What is a woman, Jo Swinson?

Women in all the main political parties are getting organised to resist self-id.

Women across the political divide are united in their defence of women’s sex-based rights. These rights were fought for and won by generations of women who claimed our right to vote, to equal pay and to equal protection.

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A woman is a woman, a man is a man, full stop, sick of hearing about all thia trans stuff it has gone too far

Yes varian I spent most of my twenties getting drunk with transsexuals thanks for asking.
Could you explain what you mean by allocated gender at birth. I have had 2 children . Their sex was observed at birth so not sure what you are referring to.

varian, do you think self-identification of sex is the way to go?
If so, how would you also protect women's rights to safety and privacy?

I am not a critic, quite the reverse

Yes .

It may be easy to poo-poo this notion that not everone is happy with the gender they were allocated at birth.

Obviously most of us are, but I would like to ask the critics - have you ever met a transexual?

This small minority of people need to have their human rights protected as we all do.

There are definitely days when I am sure I am a hamster on that wheel that never stops turning ?

I am not surprised she had trouble answering.
In our efforts to ensure equality for all, we are in danger of the complete opposite where fear of mis- gendering, mis - titling each other etc has or will become a crime , which will cause far more division, fear, & separation than any unintentional insult or perceived disrespect . Does it all have to be so serious ?unless one is unequivocally insulted why not Live & let live !

A woman is whatever the chromosomes dictate. No amount of surgery can alter that.

Yes, the world has definitely gone totally mad. I can't be doing with all this transgender business. I wasn't voting LibDem anyway but if I was I wouldn't be now.

This isn't only about the LibDems.
Labour, SNP and Greens all have self-id of sex in their manifestos.
Conservatives don't, but they were the ones who introduced it into parliament last year, so we can't assume anything about their stance on it.

Her stance on this has lost her my vote.

Won't be voting Libdem, really annoyed about this.

She handled that question very badly. I wish somebody would take her aside and tell her not to say “y’know” so often. It was particularly evident in that response but she does it all the time, it is very annoying and detracts from what she has to say.

Jo Swinson is struggling there, isn’t she! Julie Bindell has a good take down of her in a column today.

She is trying to not annoy the trans lobby!
With the result that she annoys all women in the UK.
Being allowed to self identify is a major mistake.

Oh FFS! You're a woman if you have a vagina and not a penis.

World's gone mad.

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