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 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...

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 ...

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, w...

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.