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New poll by Savanta and Electoral Calculus puts Labour on track to take 516 seats, with an estimated majority of 382 – twice the size of Tony Blair’s 1997 landslide. (lemmy.world)
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The projected poll places the Tories on just 53 seats - with even the PM losing his seat. This would place the Tories with lowest number of seats since 1832 when party was formed.

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[–] Jackthelad@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Ms Duffield has said there should be protected spaces where those born male are not allowed to go, such as domestic violence refuges and prisons, and she is against people being able to self-identify as trans to gain access to those spaces.

What a horrible person. Wanting to protect vulnerable people.

She should be condemned for this inhumanity.

[–] Tagger@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The issue is that this is a non-existent problem. No one peeling this argument has managed to provide an example of an abusive man following his victim to a domestic abuse shelter and then claiming to be trans to access that space.

I also imagine that it wouldn't be too hard to deal with if it did occur. Let's imagine the same scenario among a lesbian couple. When the abusive partner tried to gain access, the abused partner would simply let staff know that was her abusive partner and they would tell the other person that they can't stay there and redirect them to other services.

The insertion of trans people into this situation is facile and bigoted.

[–] Jackthelad@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There are examples of sex offenders then pretending to be trans to be put in a women's prison though. There was a famous example of that in Scotland recently.

All because they could just "self-identify" and apparently that was good enough for him to be moved to a women's prison. Absolute insanity.