Women Of Dorset

Women of Dorset have contacted all those standing in the eight constituencies that cover Dorset, including Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. Below is the response from Richard Drax (Conservative) - South Dorset. Answers for Women of Dorset from Richard Drax, candidate for South Dorset Women of Dorset was established to protect women’s  sex based rights & safeguarding in Dorset, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. We're an eclectic mix of women who believe that a woman is an adult human female and that:- the law allows for single sex services and most people want to them but they are under attack; organisations and staff are afraid even though everyone knows the difference between male and female; language has become a battleground and everyone is walking on egg shells; no one wants to be the one to tell someone that their sense of gender identity cannot override rules that protect the safety, fairness and dignity of everyone. Confusion makes services less inclusive and...

Women of Dorset have contacted all those standing in the eight constituencies that cover Dorset, including Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. Below is the response from Michael Tomlinson (Conservative) - Mid Dorset and North Poole. Dear Women of Dorset,   Thank you for your email and your questions. I hope that the following answers them all for you:   A woman is an adult human female. You cannot “become a woman”. You are born female, with XX chromosomes and grow up to be a woman.   I welcome the recent announcement by the Prime Minister that the Conservative Party will introduce primary legislation to clarify that the protected characteristic of sex in the Equality Act means biological sex, in addition to legislating that a person can only have one sex in the eyes of the law in the United Kingdom. This means that organisations like refuges can use the law as it was intended.  I agree that Women should have the right to female-only spaces in both everyday and speci...