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, via a third party, a response from Tom Hayes (Labour) - Bournemouth East. Thank you for your email and please accept my apologies that you didn't receive a reply earlier. Unlike Tobias Ellwood who has a full team of staff paid for via the Parliament staff allowance, as a candidate, I rely entirely on a team of volunteers, many of whom are supporting me around full time jobs and caring responsibilities.  The election announcement took us somewhat by surprise and it's only been in the last few weeks when I've had a volunteer dedicated to ensuring that correspondence is answered. I apologise that your email arrived in the period when I had no support and started receiving 150 emails a day, and it slipped through the net. If I am elected to Parliament, I will have the ability to employ staff to help me manage correspondence. ...

Women of Dorset have contacted all those standing in the eight constituencies that cover Dorset, including Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. Below is, via a third party, a response from Lloyd Hatton (Labour) - South Dorset. Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I hope this answers each of your questions fully. I want to find a way forward which always upholds existing legislation - including the provisions for single sex spaces and services as set out in the Equality Act. And a path forward which also supports Trans people as one of the most marginalised communities in the UK. Which I'm sure we both agree is the constructive approach needed. In respect of the Cass Report, the Labour Party supports the review and its findings, and if elected, I will work with an incoming Labour Government here. Labour's manifesto has put forward proposals to introduce a conversion therapy ban, this is a long-standing commitment which an incoming Labour Government hopes to implement 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 Jessica Toale (Labour) - Bournemouth West, Tom Hayes (Labour) - Bournemouth East and Joanna Howard (Labour) - Christchurchand East Dorset . Dear Women of Dorset, Thank you for your email and questions. As candidates we are proud of the Labour Party’s record of progress on equality, from the introduction of the Sex Discrimination Act in 1975 to the Equality Act in 2010. The next Labour government will build on the progress that has been made in the past by addressing today’s challenges, making hatred against women a hate crime, acting on the gender pay gap and maternity discrimination, and modernising the law on gender recognition whilst protecting spaces for biological women. One of our missions for the country at this election is to break down barriers to opportunity for all, ensuring that everyone is treated w...

Women of Dorset have contacted those standing as PPC 's in the eight Dorset constituencies.  These are the questions we have asked:- Women of Dorset was established to protect womens  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 sevices 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 less safe.  It creates conflict and it isn't kind, least of all to women.  It is up to the Government to put this right.  Therefore, we ...