Men are representing women
Men are taking womens places
Men are dictating language women can use
Men are breaching womens boundaries.
Men are rewriting rules for what women may & may not do
And yet we are forbidden from pointing to a single man doing this & stating "He is a man"
And in response to one declaring "we all need to listen to each other to understand how we can make progress together"
First you have to cede the power...
This is what equality means
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The history of sex and gender is that once you unclip from reality things unravel much further than the officials that did the un-clipping anticipated, and each place which is unclipped accelerates unravelling elsewhere
Proposed amendments leave out "person" and insert "woman"
@RachelReevesMP talks about If we are to encourage women from all backgrounds to become MPs and ministers - 102 years after women won the right to stand for parliament, there are still just 220 female MPs compared with 430 men
The first woman MP to have a baby while serving in parliament in 1976. She had to come into parliament 10 days after giving birth to vote.