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Originally Posted by Vicky.
Also sorry for very harsh posts on here last night, I was pretty drunk. Just been reading back over it all and I was more sharp than usual in a few places. But this issue seriously bothers me at the moment, as a female, I am not a female because I like wearing dresses and wearing makeup (neither of which I actually do). I find the insinuation that a man can be a woman just becuse he says so seriously mysoginistic. I am a woman as I am an adult human female. I don't beleve in 'gender identity' (which is akin to a religion really) as I do not even have one (I don't 'feel' like a woman, I simply feel like me) so to follow the idology that makes me neiter female nor male. Bonkers.
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I get all of this I just don't see it as being anything to do with this case, of whether someone is able to carry out their role.
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Originally Posted by Vicky.
'She' has already been banging on about the needs of 'transwomen' in this role that is meant to be about women. Do you really think 'she' is going to be bothered about issues that don't affect 'her'? Its now going to be all about the needs of men.
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I don't know, I'm just saying I'd keep an open mind about it
because I don't know, rather than assume she can't possibly do well in the role. I could be proved wrong and yes she may fail to represent her constituents just as any other politician might who are unable to fully understand the lives of those they represent (and I don't think many politicians really do understand that), but I'd still give her the chance to prove herself. The most important thing for me would be how her female constituents feel about how they are being represented by her and I suppose time will tell that, but I don't think it's something that can be judged straight off the bat however unusual the appointment might seem.
I don't know the details of what she's talked about regarding trans-womens needs and how that affects womens needs but I'll have a look at that later, I'd guess/hope that she could be trying to be inclusive of both rather than trying to demean or ignore women? I don't know exactly what's happened with that though.
I'll watch the video later too, although as part of her role she'd have to put aside her personal feelings to an extent if they conflict with the wants of the women she's representing and I'd probably reserve judgement until I saw that she wasn't doing that.