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🗓️ 12 April 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
0:05.3 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
0:10.4 | Good morning and welcome to the programme. |
0:12.6 | Now most of the newspapers and a lot of social media is a wash with photos from a boozy Sunday |
0:17.3 | lunch hosted by J.K. Rowling this weekend, just gone. |
0:20.5 | The Harry Potter author brought together a particular group of feminists and activists |
0:24.5 | as a new campaign is launched called Respect My Sex, ahead of the local elections. |
0:30.0 | The Women at the Lunch, which included Professor Kathleen Stock, who resigned from Sussex University |
0:34.7 | after a campaign against her views on gender and sex. |
0:39.0 | And also the campaign at Maya Forstata, who won, I'm sure some of you will remember, the |
0:42.9 | first part of a case, which means that gender-critical views are a protected belief under the Equality |
0:48.0 | Act, are united over what they think defines a woman in a time when women's and trans rights |
0:54.0 | are being debated. |
0:55.0 | Well, today I'm joined by someone else, who was at that lunch, the Labour MP Rosie Duffield, |
1:00.2 | who has come into conflict with her own party's policies on this issue. |
1:04.7 | The local elections are coming up, of course, on May the 5th, and this new cross-party campaign |
1:09.3 | called Respect My Sex if you want my ex, set up by women's rights groups, is urging |
1:15.0 | you, as voters, to ask several key questions, the top being, what is a woman, followed |
1:20.8 | by what is more important, sex or gender, followed by asking a candidate, as and when |
1:26.6 | you may meet them if you do, if they support single, single sex spaces. |
1:32.0 | Are those questions any of the ones that you would ask a local candidate? |
1:35.2 | That's what I wanted to ask you today, a question about a set of questions. |
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