From September 1, lesbian couples who have children through fertility treatment can be named on birth certificates. Previously, only the birth mother could be named as a parent. Great news for loving lesbian couples then, finally the legal rights that come with the validity of being a birth parent on paper, are fulfilled.
Introduced as part of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill which was approved by the House of Commons last year. It brings the UK’s fertility laws in line with equality legislation.
What a shame it is then, that Conservative MP, Nadine Dorries, with a name that could have come straight out of the villain corridors of a Roald Dahl novel, couldn’t help but offend every LGBT parent out there.
She told the BBC: “If we want to build a stable society, a mother and father and children works as the best model. We should be striving towards repairing and reinforcing marriage. I think this move sends out the exact opposite message.”
This isn’t the first time that Ms Trunchbull has upset equality activists with her comments. Described as ‘a right-wing, working-class Conservative‘, she is a member of the Cornerstone Group, which identifies as “a socially conservative or traditionalist political faction within the British Conservative Party” , (so essentially, sexual repression and nuclear families), though with the motto ‘Faith, Flag, and Family’ it sounds more like a faction of the BNP.

She goes on to offend, ”The legislation about to come into effect delivers the message that the family unit which has underpinned a functioning society for thousands of years is de-valued in the eyes of the government. Labour’s policies have deliberately set out to undermine the bedrock of a stable society. There is no evidence that lesbian couples stay together longer than heterosexual couples.”

In what universe does granting the rights of two individuals, be they straight, gay, bisexual or transgendered- ever undermine society? Nadine, you’re missing a trick here, you just aren’t getting this. Perhaps you’ve been spending too long reading the Conservative’s guide to constipated morality, or perhaps you’ve been spending too long sat in the back of Sunday sermons, brainwashed, nano inch by nano inch to accept a world of hate.. or maybe it’s just that you’ve been far too busy telling women what they can and can’t do with their own bodies. I don’t know, but what I do know is that you’re pissing into the face of a furious wind, you’re kicking up the sand of a movement that has had just about enough of being told that we must mould and form to your gender stereotypes, that we must kick and fight for every line of equality legislation, only at the last minute to have the rug pulled sharply from under our feet and told we are unworthy and sinful, that we’re incapable of being loving parents or good teachers or role models of society.
It’s about time, Ms Dorries, that you exorcised those demons, because we’re past this, we’re beyond the tittle tattle and the radio 4 interviews, we’re leaps and bounds ahead of your ‘socially conservative‘ dogma. We’re taking the lead on this one, and there’s nothing at all you can do about it.

Read the full trough of Nadine’s Tory pigswill here.