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"My letter in today’s Herald about the political establishment pandering to JK Rowling and her anti trans obsession while ignoring the majority of women and women’s issues www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2442..."
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"I could not care less if JK Rowling's postal vote is 'literally lying next to her'. What the political establishment needs to remember is that JK Rowling gets one vote, the same as the rest of us. As the article points out, very few women are thinking about trans people when it comes to their vote. Why then, does it seem like the whole political establishment is pandering to one very rich woman and her pet issue? JK Rowling and the few politicians who share her views get constant media coverage. I cannot remember the last time I saw a trans person on TV being asked about their views. Furthermore, there are urgent women's rights issues being completely ignored while the political discourse centres on the gutter politics of body parts and bathrooms. Neither the Labour nor Tory manifesto mentioned abortion, which is rather shocking given the uptick in women and girls being charged with so-called 'illegal abortions'."
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"Rape conviction rates remain so low that it is effectively decriminalised. Labour will not commit to undoing the two-child benefit cap (also known as the rape clause). People wait years for a diagnosis of endometriosis. Maternity care is in crisis. Schools are in crisis, particularly in Glasgow, where school communities face teacher staff cuts on a scale we have never seen before. Only yesterday I watched a checkout operator struggling to remove the security cap from a container... it was a container of baby formula. We are living in a country where people are having to steal to feed their children. We have long been told that those of us who respect the dignity and humanity of trans people are indulging in 'luxury beliefs'. I would argue that anyone in a position to ignore the mess of this country and spend all their time fixating on a tiny minority group are the ones indulging in such beliefs. I, for one, would like politicians to stop using trans people as a punch-bag and finally li"
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