Before the Stormont elections, feminist campaigners Standing for Women Northern Ireland (SFWNI) asked every candidate in the Northern Ireland Assembly election if biological men dressed as women should be allowed to use communal changing rooms with teenage girls and women.
The campaigners asked the candidates if those who self-identify as women even though they have male genitalia should have the right to use young females’ changing facilities.
According to MSN, the Newsletter saw SFWNI’s tabulated findings which show that the Alliance Party, Sinn Fein, the SDLP, the Green Party, People Before Profit and the other smaller left-wing parties were ‘Didn’t Care To Answer’.
DUP, UUP and TUV candidates alongside a number of independents as well as the nationalist Aontu party all said ‘No’ to the question.
According to MSN, a SFWNI spokesperson said:
“Women are uniting across divides (as they do), to protect our sex-based rights to privacy, dignity, safety and language.”
“Why is it that our political representatives cannot answer a simple question about child safeguarding?”
“Our questions to politicians have been dismissed as ‘bad faith’ by some prominent representatives and party leaders, the dismissal is bad faith. Suggesting that a straightforward question about adult males in underage female spaces is complex-to-answer is bad faith.”
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