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Labour MP For Canterbury Rosie Duffield has been heckled by her own side after speaking out in the House Of Commons in support of the government’s unprecedented block on Nicola Sturgeon’s gender law changes.
Rosie spoke up for women’s right to retain single-sex spaces such as changing rooms. She asked the Scottish Secretary to ‘recognise the strength of feeling amongst women, women’s rights’ groups and activists in Scotland, that this Bill seeks to allow anyone at all to legally self-identify as either sex and therefore enter all spaces, including those necessarily segregated by sex, such as domestic violence settings, changing rooms and prison’.
If it is allowed to happen on this, then I think that is a very slippery slope
She received a number of jeers including some from former Labour cabinet minister Ben Bradshaw, who shouted ‘absolute rubbish’. Labour MPs Luke Pollard and Charlotte Nichols could also be seen shaking their heads in dissent.
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was yesterday accused of ‘weaponising vulnerable children’, as she vowed to take the Government to court for blocking gender self-identification.
The proposed Scottish law could set a dangerous precedent where current laws that guarantee women’s access to single-sex spaces could be lost. This could result in a situation where any person who decides to recognise themselves as a ‘female’, could enter women’s changing rooms or toilets.
After the debate, Ms Duffield wrote on Twitter ‘Being shouted down in the Chamber by Labour men who clearly don’t want women to speak up for our rights to single-sex spaces. How very progressive.’
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