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WriteToThem is a website which provides an easy way to contact MPs, councillors and other elected representatives.
uk people, make a noise at your MP about Wes Streeting's attempt to kill trans children.
key points, use the links included and feel free to add your own personal take:
+ the cass review has been found to be extremely methodologically flawed: https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/documents/integrity-project_cass-response.pdf
+ there has been a significant increase in deaths from children on the waiting list for gender affirming care since the Bell v Tavistock case: https://x.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1803729360731406489
+ Wes Streetings own comments on his social media show that he is not impartial on the subject of gender affirming care and this makes him an inappropriate person to be making decisions on it.
further help! a friend has a) found how to contact Wes Streeting directly: [email protected]
and b) made the following point in her own, longer email to him:
"The Labour Party was elected on a platform of change; the reduction of chaos and the turning of a new page. Continuing the Tories' tired and desperate transphobia as a means of pandering to a section of society bent on discrimination does not reflect this philosophy."
Definitely include something along those lines!
bf has also written to our local mp including hits such as:
"why has a Labour health secretary not just taken a regressive and discriminatory Tory 'culture war' policy as a good idea, but is seeking to reinforce it? Even the Cass Report, itself a globally criticised paper, did not go so far as to recommend a ban on puberty blockers."
and
"it bears the hallmarks of the previous Tory administration, which sought to demonise trans people and degrade their social care as a means to shift attention away from the rest of their terrible policies."
Again, probably don't c&p this but please feel free to use them as talking points to shape your own letters. A polite "what the fuck do you think you're doing" and "you said no more culture war, what the hell do you call this" would be wonderful. & if you're a parent to a trans child yourself absolutely let rip.
(also worth pointing to the effect that banning trans affirming care for youth in the US has had, including people leaving places where it's been banned, per Jo Maugham's suggestion in my original post: Does Labour want to lose had-working, tax-paying families to other countries? Now? When we're in an economic blah blah blah?)
WriteToThem doesn't have details for a lot of MPs at the moment but you can still find them and contact them.
Go here to find out who your MP is:
Find your MP and learn more about them, including details of their parliamentary career and contact information. Find them by name/location,
and once you find them, there'll be an email for their parliamentary office, like this:
You'll need to open up your own email to contact them, there's no form on the website, and you need to make sure you mention your postcode so they know that you're one of their constituents.
Now go forth, find your MP, and let them know what we think about this bullshit suggestion.
