Women With Balls: Rosie Duffield

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🗓️ 6 October 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Rosie Duffield is the Labour MP for Canterbury and one of the most well-known faces in British politics. She first became an MP in 2017, a historic win which overturned 99 years of Tory rule. Since becoming an MP, Rosie has spoken out against issues such as Brexit, the two-child policy and most famously for her views on self-ID. On the podcast she talks how she never expected to win her seat; the isolation she has faced from inside her party as a gender-critical feminist and why she thinks that the Labour Party is slowly moving back towards her.

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by Canacord Genuity Wealth Management,
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0:20.0	Hello and welcome to Women of Balls, where I, Katie Balls, speak to today's trailblazers.
0:26.1	Since 2020, my guest has become one of the most talked about MPs in the Labour Party.
0:31.5	Born in Norfolk, she moved to south-east London, where at school she described herself as not a model pupil in any way.
0:38.5	She left school at age 16 to take up an administration apprenticeship at Guy's Hospital before going on
0:43.4	into further education. She moved to Canterbury in 1998 and worked as a teaching assistant, but
0:49.0	always had a passion for writing political satire. In 2017, she ran to be a Labour MP in Canterbury,
0:55.3	a historic win, which overturned 99 years of conservative representation.
1:00.0	As an MP, she has become a key figure in the transgender debate in Parliament,
1:04.5	saying that only woman have a cervix.
1:07.1	My guest has since refused to back down on this stance.
1:10.2	She said trans rights are the same rights as everyone else,
1:12.9	but what concerns me is that there is a slight conflict in some cases between trans rights and women's rights.
1:18.4	Women's rights are why I came to Parliament and why I'm sitting here,
1:21.5	because women are now visible in Parliament.
1:23.7	My guest today is Rosie Duffield.
1:25.9	Rosie, thank you very much for coming to The Spectator today.
1:28.1	Thank you for having me.
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