Women Of Dorset

There are four candidates standing in the Police and Crime Commissoner elections in Dorset on 2nd May 2024. The candidates are as follows: David Sidwick - Conservative,  Marianne Storey - Independant,  David Stokes - Labour and  Howard Legg - Lib Dem We asked the following questions on Twitter and via email:- 1)  What is your definition of the word woman? 2)  Do you agree with the College of Policing’s guidelines on searching that allow a trans identified male police officer with or without a gender recognition certificate to strip search a female detainee? If so, why? If not, why not? 3)  Do you agree with the decision of Dorset Police not to implement the College of Policing Policy? If so, why? If not, what do you intend to do about it? 4)  Will you ensure that all crime data is recorded by sex not gender?   5)  Will you ensure that sex, not gender, will be in all police policies and practices? Only one candidate responded, David Sidwick, whose answers are below:- 1)  My definition o

If you're concerned that your gender questioning children are being pushed down a medical pathway by Dorset Healthcare please get in touch with us. There are parents within our group who have experienced this in BCP and Dorset, with more contacting us. You can either DM us on Twitter at @WomenDorset or email us at womenofdorset@gmail.com Complete confidentiality will be provided.

Women of Dorset undertake a lot of our work on line, whether it's in chat groups or Zoom meetings, so it's always good when we meet face to face. We try to meet roughly every four weeks and for the April meet up we talked about the upcoming Police and Crime Commissioner elections, Dorset Council elections and the by-election in BCP for the Canford Cliffs Ward and how we'd need to challenge candidates on sex based rights and safeguarding. There was also a lot of chat about other work we were undertaking, some of which you can see in the news articles that are also on the blog. For our next meet up we're going to Weymouth as we have few members in the west of Dorset.  The elections will have just been held, so we'll have a good idea of what we might be up against.

  Space Youth Project in Dorset has been accused by MP of West Dorset Chris Loder of targeting vulnerable young people. Read here

West Dorset Magazine has given a double page article Mum speaks out over gender and puberty blocker drugs  at Pages 26 to 27.

From Sex Matters:- The Cass Review final report is out! We think it is a big step forward, with multiple implications that will be hugely consequential. It demolishes the entire basis for the current model of treating gender-distressed children.  This means the end of paediatric gender medicine as we know it in England, and it will have global reverberations.    The report  makes stinging criticisms of NHS gender clinics, both adult and child, and the description of the Gender Identity Development Service is absolutely damning. Cass sometimes uses terminology – cisgender, assigned at birth, and  “trans females” that is inaccurate, unscientific and confusing. But that does not detract from the many important points she makes in this groundbreaking report.

Transgend er Trend has recen tly published its report The ideological capture of Dorset - nowhere to turn  The following account of a council completely captured by gender ideology was written by Shelley Charlesworth, with our thanks to the persistent, hard-working women in Dorset for their essential help in compiling this report. The ideological capture of Dorset - nowhere to turn