Please vote for Labour - even if they won't say what a woman is

I’m seeing a lot of people on my timeline say that they won’t vote for Labour, because Labour “doesn’t know what a woman is”. I am going to plead with you to suck up Labour’s imperfections and cowardice, and vote for them on 4 July – because the alternative is terrifying for women.

As a country, right now, we are in a dire state; and most of the horror is being visited on women.

The period of Tory rule – especially in the last 4 years – has been unspeakably awful for women and girls.

Lockdown saw a huge rise in domestic abuse of women and children; and an intensification of abuse and assault of women in public space. Rape prosecutions have decreased, and there’s been a rise in forced marriage and FGM.

Health inequalities between men and women have widened. Women receive worse healthcare than men, experience poorer outcomes, are less researched, less likely to be given pain medication, and l…