I have lived in Newcastle since 1983 and in Walker since 1987.

Full statement

Wallsend is right next door.

I am very pleased that half of my Nominations to stand for Party Of Women were from Newcastle East and half were from Wallsend.

Why should the people of Newcastle East and Wallsend vote for me and for the Party of Women?

A vote for Party Of Women is a vote for

- women's sex-based rights

- protection of children

- freedom of speech to even talk about these things.

https://www.partyofwomen.org/

The campaign slogan is, "Dare to be Honest".

We need to Dare to be Honest that:

- Sex Equality does not mean that men and women are the same

- Men are male, women are female, we are equal but different

- 99% of sex offenders are male, 88% of their victims are female

- Boys can be feminine, girls can be masculine, it's no big deal

- Nobody is "born in the wrong body"

- It might mean that they could grow up to be happily gay or lesbian

- "Transing them straight" is homophobic gay conversion

- No women has a p*nis, no man has a vagina and non-binary" is nonsense

- Some people like to flip or mix their appearance: it's normal, it's not "gender queer"

- No amount of cross-sex hormones or cosmetic surgery changes a person's sex

- It harms all children to pretend or teach that anyone might "really" be the opposite sex

- Socially or medically transitioning children is profound child abuse

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Campaign Fund:

I am raising funds to cover election expenses but ideally, with your help and support, I will get at least 5% of votes cast and not lose my deposit of £500. Obviously, I would like to do even better than that.

Election funds will pay for leaflets to be printed, office rent at Wallsend Town Hall Chambers and other essential expenses.

My Crowdfunder is on a platform called GiveSendGo. This is a Christian organisation with traditional values that some of you might find at odds with your own beliefs.

However, it is the ONLY Crowdfunding platform that does not regard advocating for women's sex-based rights as "hate speech".

ALL other Crowdfunding platforms promptly delete appeals to fund advocacy for women's sex-based rights and then ban those who have posted them.

This is the world we are living in now.

I would be grateful for any donations, however small. You do not need to pay a fee to use GiveSendGo and donations to GiveSendGo itself are optional.

https://www.givesendgo.com/POWNewcastleEastWallsend2024

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A bit more background to introduce myself to you

I was born and brought up in North Wales and studied at Keele University and the National Hospitals College of Speech Sciences (now part of University College London).

I am retired now and spent almost all my working life as a Speech & Language Therapist in the NHS.

I moved to Newcastle in 1983 to set up an run a specialist multidisciplinary Communication Aid service covering the North of England.

Previous relevant experience:

- elected by the Northern Region TUC to represent Women's Interests on what was then the North East Regional Assembly;

- Regional President of MSF (now Unite Trade Union);

- initiated and led campaigns at TUC and Labour Party Conferences against the closure of Swan Hunter Shipyard;

- I have delivered speeches at Labour Party and TUC Conferences as well as professional conferences in the UK, USA and Canada;

- I was invited to stand as a Labour Party candidate in a safe seat in 1997 but declined due to family commitments.

I have been interviewed on TV and radio in the past about campaigns I was involved with, eg.

- the Speech & Language Therapy Campaign for Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value;

- organising Union members from the North East to attend rallies and marches in London protesting cuts to NHS Speech & Language Therapy Services;

- documentary about the need to improve services for children and adults with severe communication problems.

I was a trustee of the charity Communication Matters and produced and edited the charity's Newsletter/Magazine for several years.

I have written articles for Therapy Weekly (now defunct) and other professional publications and paid part of the costs of a 6 week study tour to the USA by being commissioned to write a "Journal" by Therapy Weekly.

I represented the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists on the British Standards Institute Committee on Communication Aids and was the NHS Allied Health Services representative on the "NHS Net" User Group, now NHS Digital Services.

I have conducted research into the effectiveness of using speech aids with stammerers and communication aids with adults with aphasia and was invited by the BBC to chair a panel deciding the distribution of funds raised to support children with severe communication problems.

I worked with the Motor Neurone Disease Association to set up local MND Branches in Co Durham and was a long time members of Newcastle Joint Advisory Group on Physical Disability and Sensory Problems.

In 1990 I lost the use of my hands and arms due to severe RSI. They had recovered enough by 2007 that I could learn to play the ukulele and it was the best physiotherapy to restore lost dexterity and strength. I also play bass guitar and sing and write songs. And I love my dog!

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My Wake-Up Call:

A conversation on the radio, 4 December 2018, was my wake up call that something was badly amiss. I heard it by accident and found out later that it was billed as being about "Transgender Women in Women's Sport".

The presenter and guest talked truthfully, that what was really being discussed was MEN being allowed to play in women's sport.

Meaning that there would be no such thing as "women's sport": there would be Men's Sport and Mixed-Sex Sport. Eventually, just Men's Sport - and a "second league" of Men's Sport, for men who could not make the grade to enter official Men's Sport.

This is what "inclusion" means: exclusion of women.

This is how the conversation went:

Beth Jones, Guest: "In an ideal world, do you know, I think that would be great (that women's sport would be mixed sex)."

Jane Garvey, Presenter: "At professional level, that would mean in team games, for example, no woman would ever play hockey for Great Britain or England again."

BJ: "They may, they may not. It's all in the future to be determined."

JG: "But that's not an ideal, is it? Certainly not for feminists, who believe in very strongly in female sport and the importance of it. That would be a horrifying prospect."

BJ: "I don't think that just because we have mixed-gender hockey teams, for example, that that would mean that women wouldn't play. It might mean, actually, if women feel if they are in a mixed team that they might push themselves even more to achieve even more, to be on more of a comparative (sic) level to males. I don't think it necessarily means that women wouldn't be able to play."

JG: "No, I mean they would never be picked. Obviously, it would be the duty of whoever picks the team to pick the best team and, to be brutal about it, that probably wouldn't feature any women."

BJ: "But at the same time, we don't know that. And it may, and that's what I'm saying, there is a bit of an argument academically that perhaps women kind of cap their capability. Psychologically, because they are competing against other women. If they feel they are then competing against other men, who we take it in society that men perform better than women, then perhaps they would "up" their performance and be competing on more of that level. So we may see women picked for those teams."

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"So we may see women picked for those teams". Or, more likely, we will not.

The Guest was not a sport's scientist or even just someone with an ounce of common sense.

So let's get one thing straight about men who call themselves women.

"Transwomen" are not a special sort of woman: no woman has a p*nis.

They are men.

This is what "transgender inclusion" in women's sport means: inclusion of boys and men, exclusion of women and girls.

Just don't get me on to male police officers strip searching women, men on women's hospital wards and men who are rapists, violent sex-offenders and paedophiles being put in prison with women.

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Published by "Who Can I Vote For?". Self-promoted by Liz Panton at POW Wallsend Town Hall Chambers, High Street East, Wallsend NE28 7AT