Susan Dalgety
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Member of ‘Shadowy Forces’ (Scotland) Co-editor of The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht @TheScotsman column on Saturday @edinburghpaper on Monday. On @X too often.
Joined June 2015
Cutting support for education for the world’s poorest children is not only shortsighted, it’s a betrayal of Labour’s core values. Me ✍️ in @TheScotsman .
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The face of the most extraordinary courage, fired by righteous anger and powered by a strong sense of justice for all women and girls. We all owe a debt to Gisele Pelicot for her bravery and grace.
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How the women of Afghanistan are treated.
Treating our Guests with True Afghan Hospitality! 🤩. The ACB hosted a warm and delightful dinner party for the Blackcaps to showcase Afghanistan's rich culture of hospitality. The Kiwis were also treated with Special presents and gifts. 🤩🎁. #AfghanAtalan | #AFGvNZ2024
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@jk_rowling Thank you. You have no idea how important your voice is, or how much it means to women and girls 💕.
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Trump’s New Executive Order on ‘Male and Female’. It’s a huge failure of the left/progressives that the material reality of sex had to be confirmed by Trump.
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Huw Edwards’ defence: “a sense of being inferior by not getting into Oxford and going to Cardiff instead, and being therefore something of an outsider at the BBC”. FFS he was one of the BBC’s highest paid presenters; he was a star not an outsider. Own your deviancy man.
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I can’t believe that girls are having to justify having short hair.
'We want to show it's OK for girls to have short hair'
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In a few weeks time the Afghanistan MEN’S cricket team will play in ICC’s world championships, while Afghan women and girls are denied their most basic human rights. There must be a sporting boycott to help end this sex apartheid. Me ✍️ in The Scotsman
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@TheLancet @WHO Are we just supposed to accept this? Are we extremist for objecting to women and girls being de-humanised. Are we really just “bodies with vaginas” to medical professionals?.
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So they’ve won. Robyn Woof, a self identified trans woman and Trans Liberation Officer has stopped women from watching Adult Human Female. Scotland 2022. Thanks @NicolaSturgeon
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Dear First Minister @HumzaYousaf, . I object to you referring to Scotland’s 2.8 females as ‘cis’. We are NOT a subset of our sex class - ‘woman’ does not require a qualification. Nor are there several varieties of women and for you to suggest otherwise is hateful. Yours, . An
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He must resign. Not consider it, bloody well go. He put his institution’s reputation before safeguarding children. Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby considered resigning over 'appalling' barrister abuse scandal
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Me ✍️ Sandie Peggie’s grace under pressure is inspirational, but her case reveals class divide at heart of gender debate - yet working women have been betrayed by the trade union movement - yes, you @unisontheunion
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David Livingstone was a victim of child labour, forced to work in a mill because of extreme poverty. He single-handedly and successfully campaigned against East coast slave trade (UK had largely ignored) and is regarded as a freedom fighter by Africans. 🤦♀️
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Michael Cashman is a Labour peer. I trust by the end of today - the anniversary of Jo Cox’s murder - he has the party whip removed. His comments on Rosie Duffield are abhorrent.
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Lucky man. Not only does he get to play the game he loves on the global stage, he can speak in public, wear what he likes, go to university, work where he wants, he can even stand by a window. Unlike Afghan women and girls.
The debutant Ismat Alam steps up and puts on a solid batting effort to get to his maiden half-century in Test cricket. 👏. Excellent knock from the youngster! 👍. #AfghanAtalan | #ZIMvAFG | #GloriousNationVictoriousTeam
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We moved venues in an effort to see Adult Human Female and guess what. A group of students are stopping us from going into the theatre. So much for free speech in the home of enlightenment #
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Shame on you: England will not boycott Afghanistan match in Champions Trophy. We will just have to keep up the pressure. Women matter more than cricket. (Share token).
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I thought long and hard about writing this article, but decided I had to tell my story in response to @ShonaRobison’s claim that abusive and predatory men never hide their true intent #SexMatters #WomenWontWheesht
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WTAF. Doctor NOT struck off for “one-off” rape. The legally qualified chair of the medical tribunal panel, Angus Macpherson, wrote: "The Tribunal considered that this was a one-off event in Dr Foy-Yamah's personal life.
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Meanwhile nurses have had to set up their own trade union to get protection and Sandie Peggie, a nurse of 30 years standing is going through a very public ordeal, because health unions support men who masquerade as women instead of standing up for their female members. Shameful.
I was over the moon to see our UNISON women's conference overwhelmingly endorse a motion that supports our transgender and non-binary comrades 🏳️⚧️. We all want a truly inclusive union! I have consistently opposed all forms of discrimination I always will ✊
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Still silence from Sturgeon. The woman whose wrong-headed decision to pursue self ID led directly to this week’s Supreme Court ruling has held her wheesht since Wednesday. She may be busy re-writing her memoir, or she may be too much of a coward to show her face. Whatever her
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Predicament for Nicola Sturgeon. If she withdraws whip from 9 who voted against/abstained on GRR, she loses her majority and is in hock to Greens. If she doesn't act, she loses authority in group. Whatever, she is no longer omnipotent. Interesting.
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Former England cricket star Jonathan Trott (@Trotty) has just agreed a further year extension to his contract to coach the Afghanistan men’s cricket team. While he is praising their ball skills, the women and girls of Afghanistan are denied even their most basic human rights of.
Jonathan Trott, The Head Coach of Afghanistan National Team speaks about team’s progress and conditioning in the camp, praise team’s wins in white ball cricket and urges on more red ball cricket for similar achievements. #AfghanAtalan | #AFGvNZ | #GloriousNationVictoriousTeam
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Today is #InternationalDayoftheGirl2024 how I wish the four girls here had protested about their sisters in Afghanistan, denied an education because of their sex; or stood up for girls across the world forced into marriage or trafficked for their sex. Instead they chose to.
Breaking: Militant trans activists have been detained by the venue security after allegedly releasing insects all over to try to sabotage the @AllianceLGB conference in London. The conference features gay and lesbian speakers critical of trans ideology. Several suspected
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Consider this: Humza Yousaf, Scotland's first minister, says that @jk_rowling is “offensive, upsetting and insulting”, because she said this person - a double rapist - is a man, and not the 'woman' he claims to be. I am lost for words as to what has happened to Scotland
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So I cancelled my @nytimes sub because it tried to cancel @jk_rowling. Even the offer of a year’s sub for $0.25 a week couldn’t persuade me to stay with a newspaper that is so contemptuous of women that it celebrates cancelling a female author in its ads.
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For every woman who stood up, and spoke out, even if her voice was shaking and her heart breaking. For every mother who is still fighting to save her children from the gender identity cult. For every woman who has needed safe refuge, or a female voice to hear her story. For all
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Scotland: where MSPs proudly wear 🌈 lanyards while scrutinising the gender recognition reform bill; while a female citizen is asked to leave the parliament because she is wearing a scarf 💜🤍💚 what the hell has happened to my country?
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I have filed my @TheScotsman column tomorrow on today’s momentous decision to veto Scotland’s flawed gender reform bill, self-ID is no more. Here’s to every woman who stood up and spoke out (and the men who were on our side). We did it sisters. 💚🤍💜#WomenWontWheesht
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If @jk_rowling had not set up Beira’s Place, female survivors of sexual abuse in Scotland’s capital city would not have a safe space to seek support. Women’s needs were sacrificed in the name of gender identity, a policy pursued doggedly by Nicola Sturgeon and delivered by her.
Today has seen the publication of a damning report into the culture of the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre under CEO Mridul Wadhwa, a man who identifies as a woman. 1/10.
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A female body has no definition says a doctor whose 5 year medical degree would include anatomy, physiology and require decent biology grades for entry. How did he pass?.
DU - so you are a man and you wish to be seen as a woman.JR - there are lots of questions there, one at a time. NC - you are a TW, not a Cis woman.DU - yes.NC - don't have a female body.DU - that has no definition, I'm female and I have a body so biologically female.
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1971. Bowie subverting gender stereotypes without the need to pretend he is anything other than male.
54 years ago today, David Bowie released ‘The Man Who Sold The World’ album in the UK in 1971.
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Sorry, but this is just plain crazy. What kind of government allows parents to “choose” the sex of their child for census purposes, regardless of reality. This is not about social justice or equality. It’s just mindless.
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Robert Burns: The rights of women merit some attention. Keir Starmer: I know, let’s celebrate Burns Night with a man pretending to be a woman. Women: 🤬
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Jason Scotland’s 1st period dignity officer is “absolutely buzzing” about his new job. It’s about making “anyone of any gender”aware of period products he says. Jason, I have news for you, Only females menstruate. Any more questions? PMS? Endometriosis? .
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Remember Keir Starmer launched Labour’s election campaign in Kent and didn’t invite the only sitting Labour MP in the county, yes, @RosieDuffield1. He has always had a problem with strong women, as I ✍️ in May.
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Today Kate Forbes voted FOR Stage 1 of the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) bill. Humza Yousaf was absent. Just as he was for the final vote on equal marriage. So tell me again why Kate Forbes is being is vilified for her faith….
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Women have been exposing the recklessness of Nicola Sturgeon’s self-ID policies for years. If Scottish Labour had listened to us instead of dismissing us as out of touch bigots, perhaps Sandie Peggie would not now be going through this nightmare.
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I don’t care whether Rishi Sunak is “up for the job” or Penny Mordaunt fancies a shot. This is not about the personal ambitions of second class politicians, it’s about our lives and our country’s future. There must be a general election, not a Tory coronation.
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As the first stage of nurse Sandie Peggie’s tribunal draws to a close, Unison’s national women’s conference today voted in favour of a motion that asserts that men are women if they say they are. Please make it make sense.
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Reflecting on today’s #LetWomenSpeak rally at the Mound. The organisers had liaised with @PoliceScotland beforehand to ensure it was a safe event, but on the day the policing failed. Counter-protesters - many of them young men - were allowed to surround women on all sides -
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Okay Scotland. This is insane. An elected politician, a serious, engaging, clever woman is banned from speaking at an event where she would talk about, among other things, her feminism, because some staff don’t feel “safe”. Grow up. #WomenWontWheesht.
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Is that a Mulberry backpack the young vandal who destroyed Lord Balfour’s painting is wearing? Hundreds of pounds worth of fashion if it is. Entitled, luxury beliefs.
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Well, there you go. Tony says a woman has a vagina and a bloke has a penis, so Keir agrees. For years now women have been dubbed bigots,.transphobes and right wing for stating this fact. But now Tony says it, it’s okay. And Labour wonders why we are angry.
NEW. Sir Keir Starmer says he agrees with Tony Blair “a woman has a vagina and a man has a penis”. “Tony’s right about that, he put it very well… I agree with him on that”.
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Adult Human Female (showing Edinburgh 14 Dec) is a documentary about women fighting to protect their sex-based rights in face of an ideology that says a man with a penis is a woman, because he says he is. A trade union - a trade union - wants to ban the film. Grotesque. 1/3.
It is our branch policy to demand that @EdinburghUni neither host nor facilitate meetings which contain content which is transphobic, biphobic, homophobic or otherwise detrimental to the safety and wellbeing of LGBT+ staff.
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Jason, Scotland’s 1st period dignity officer (he’s bloke in the blood red polo shirt) mansplaining menstruation to a couple of woman. Wonder if he’s ever experienced the horror of a blood stained dress in public, or the gut-wrenching fear of a missed period? No, didn’t think so.
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Gisele Pelicot, a 72-year-old grandmother who has suffered the worst betrayal imaginable, had the fortitude to speak out, not just for herself but for women and girls everywhere. Now we need men to show the same courage.
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My reaction piece to Supreme Court verdict in @TheScotsman. On Saturday I am going to reflect on how state funded feminism failed women in Scotland and argue that our future lies in the grassroots women’s movement who secured yesterday’s victory
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Hello @ChrisMasonBBC have you by any chance read The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht co-edited by @LucyHunterB and I and containing personal essays from women across society telling the story of the Scottish campaign against self-ID. Perhaps if you had read it you wouldn’t so glibly
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Other newspapers may think that Trump's order on sex means we are all female (spoiler: it doesn't). My take is different. Regardless of what you think about him, his policy is unequivocal - a woman is an adult human female and sex matters. Me ✍️ .
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🧵Afghanistan shouldn’t even be eligible for membership of @ICC because the Taliban banned women’s cricket including the national team, yet in a few week’s time they will play against England in the ICC’s World Champions tournament. 🤬.
Re Afghanistan and Cricket, here are the relevant International Cricket Council (ICC) rules, from their own website:.“To be considered eligible for membership as a Full Member of the ICC, the Associate Member must satisfy the following membership criteria. .
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@campbellclaret @jk_rowling @schooltruth @GraceCampbell Hi Alistair. At the start of this debate - years ago now - there was absolute no attempt by people such as yourself to understand what women, parents, LGB groups etc, were saying about the dangers of gender identity theory and its impact on law and policy. If only you and others.
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A reminder that it was Nicola Sturgeon’s determined pursuit of self ID and her wholehearted adoption of gender identity theory that fostered a climate where a man could be the head of one of the UK’s oldest rape crisis centres, and women’s voices were ignored as “not valid”. But
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Why are our GP services so broken? I have high blood pressure - I take 4 different medicines to control it. I am off tomorrow for a week in Greece and needed a new ‘script’. I ordered it online at 9am on Monday - it takes a maximum of 48 hours to process. I have just been to.
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Senior Labour MP ( and former women’s rugby international player) calls for England men’s cricket team to boycott upcoming ICC World Champions match with Afghanistan 👏🏽.
The oppression of women and girls in Afghanistan has to be confronted and as a sportswoman & MP I can only hope and pray that @englandcricket see their way to boycotting this fixture asap. https://archive.ph2024.09.06-213811/
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There are times when I think Scotland’s senior public servants have completely lost their mind.
Fury as Scotland's care watchdog says girls in care should share rooms with boys who self-ID as female . Visit our homepage at .
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It’s @jk_rowling birthday. I hope she’s having a wonderful time. She will never fully appreciate what she means to 1000s of women across UK, particularly here in Scotland. Her voice & soft power gave us strength when we needed it most. She’s our warrior queen, truly a real
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Dear @MaggieChapman you will be calling out your friend’s violent and explicit threats against women, won’t you?
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Mridual Wadhwa is no longer chief executive of Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre. He should never have been in the post. His appointment caused so many women so much damage, as the Ling report pointed out yesterday. Shameful.
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As @ScottishLabour women were discussing violence against women and girls in Glasgow, a few metres down the road SNP female MPs @kirstenoswald and @kaukabstewart were at a protest where violent threats against women were cheered. Scotland 2023
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I don’t go in for hyperbole (honestly) but in today’s Scotland there is no need. Woman is interviewed by police, not because she has committed a crime, but because they want to ascertain what she was thinking. @PoliceScotland is literally the thought police.
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Speechless. The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht is no 3 in the Sunday Times bestseller charts (non fiction, hardback) only days after it was published. This is for every woman who spoke out, who hung a ribbon, emailed their member of parliament, who clung on to the truth -
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BREAKING 🧵JK Rowling and a team of wonderful women have today opened Beira’s Place - a safe, women-only space for women survivors of sexual violence
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🧵There are many questions about the case of Cameron Allan, found guilty this week of a horrendous rape and murder, including whether he is the man holding ‘Decapitate Terfs’ placard beside SNP Equalities Minister Kaukab Stewart while under suspicion of murder
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Look how easy it is to say and do the right thing. Wes Streeting doesn’t hesitate to call out the BMA’s ridiculous decision. Other Labour politicians could learn from his approach…(share token) .
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I have changed my profile to better reflect who I am - a proud ‘whinging little fucker’. Sorry David Tennant but #WomenWontWheesht no matter how much you insult us 👊🏼💜
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@russellcrowe May I respectfully suggest that the voters of Sheffield Central may prefer an even brighter woman, who lives in the city and has dedicated her life to improving the lives of her fellow citizens.
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I don’t usually write a column in Tuesday’s @TheScotsman but then it’s not every day @jk_rowling and a team of magnificent women open a new service for female survivors of sexual violence #BeirasPlace
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No mention of the woman who has made this ‘historic’ event possible of course. Just 3 blokes.
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It’s in @Waterstones Edinburgh West End. I had to ask as it wasn’t out - was told it was being ‘unpacked’ as it had arrived ‘late’ yesterday, but it is now on display at the front, next to Salman Rushdie 💜 I am the ‘keen buyer’ #WomenWhoWouldntWheesht
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These are the MSPs who voted against @RussellFindlay1 sensible amendment to make it harder for sex offenders to change their legal sex. Put simply, they put gender ideology and party loyalty ahead of the safety of women and girls.
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Freedom of speech is one of the fundamental tenets of our democracy. It’s who we are. So it’s astonishing - and frankly very worrying - that two @scotgov ministers have chosen to publicly attack @jk_rowling for speaking up for women’s rights. Has Scotland really come to this…
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A loud if not particularly warm welcome to Edinburgh University for the third attempt at screening Adult Human Female. But we’re in and the film will go ahead. A triumph for common sense and free speech - and women!
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So my @sainsburys delivery due between 12.45 and 1.45 today suddenly fell out of the schedule because of an "issue", even though it had been fulfilled and money taken from my bank account. If I cancel the order it will take 5 days for my cash to be returned to me. If I was on a.
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So farewell Nicola Sturgeon. Your legacy is a divided Scotland, where women and girls are denied their basic human right to own their identity. You will not be missed. Pic by @iain_masterton
BREAKING: Nicola Sturgeon has announced she will not stand in next year's Holyrood election.
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Steve North, now ex President of Unison, has been suspended from all roles in the union following an investigation into his behaviour 👇🏼
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Nicola Sturgeon is in Italy discussing how to protect women’s rights. Meanwhile in Scotland, national agencies can’t even speak our name. #Women
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To those who ask why women keep on about gender ideology. A snapshot of last few days:.🤦🏼♀️Roisin Murphy cancelled.🤦🏼♀️ Manchester Evening News reporter has ‘exclusive’ on overheard conversation .🤦🏼♀️Publicly calling for women to be punched in the face deemed not a crime.
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Women standing up for their rights is NOT a culture war. We are all exhausted trying to cling on to the truth: that biological sex is a material reality; that women are adult human females and that humans cannot change their sex. Our laws, public services and political discourse.
Exclusive: Keir Starmer Says He Will End Tory Culture Wars If He Becomes Prime Minister
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I hate showing off (honestly I am a serious introvert) but I have been shortlisted for Scottish Press Awards (columnist of the year). Thanks to @TheScotsman and to all the wonderful women who have inspired me over the last few years. You all know who you are.
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🧵On @BBCr4today Nicola Sturgeon said "The threat to women in our society today is not from trans women, it is from abusive men." I have news for Ms Sturgeon. Abusive men sometimes present themselves as trans women and her plans for self ID will make that deception much easier
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It’s now day 5 since the Supreme Court made its ruling on sex and the law. Still not a word from Nicola Sturgeon who pushed self ID to the extent it destroyed her career, split her party and gave rise to a new women’s movement. Yet when a few trans kids threatened to leave the.
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It’s been quite a day. Thank you to everyone who has responded to my @TheScotsman column. And thanks to all the wonderful, wonderful women who will not wheesht. 💚🤍💜.
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So SNP protect Maggie Chapman. Keeping their Green friends on board more important than upholding the rule of law. Deeply, deeply cynical people.
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One of the most prestigious universities in the world reduces women to ‘non-men’ in pursuit of LGBTQ perfection. Now do you see why women are so angry about gender ideology. The erasure of women as a separate sex-class is it’s heart. #WomenWontWheesht
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@Calderbank @RosieDuffield1 @itvnews My son co-parents. He fulfils the ‘gendered social role associated with mothering’ for his daughter but he is not her mum (or mother ) he is her dad (father). Stop with this nonsense.
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I used to love Jon Stewart but this is worst kind of liberal progressive male elitism. Note he doesn’t ask “what is a man?”, of course not. It’s women who have had their identity stolen, our sex class erased by queer theory, enabled by an unthinking celebrity/ political elite.
What is a woman? It’s a question that’s suddenly everywhere, and it turns out the answer is complicated. Jon breaks down the gender binary and gender spectrum in this week’s episode. Stream the free episode now on Apple TV+.
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Just when you thought that the discussion around gender identity could be moving on to a more sensible footing, @scotgov release this list pf 24 ‘gender identities’ for use in data recording - beyond ridiculous.
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Trans doctor Beth Upton ‘tried to ruin career’ of changing room row nurse.(Share token) .
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Scotland: MSPs dressed to impress for Stage 1 of the Gender Recognition Reform bill. Two weeks later a woman is ejected from the same parliament for wearing a suffragette scarf. Sometimes authoritarianism just creeps up on you…
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@GussieGrips intervenes from public gallery to plead with Shona Robison to listen to women and girls. Show us some respect she says, this is vital. She has to leave the meeting, but made her point. But will the minister listen?.
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Those who oppose Self-ID - where you can change your legal sex simply by making a declaration - are not anti-trans. If you change legal definition of sex then women lose their ability to organise politically as women. Public data is compromised. Women lost their sex-based rights.
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Nicola Sturgeon may think she can dismiss women like @jk_rowling @ForWomenScot as not “real” feminists but she can’t ignore the voices of young women like @CleverclogsNina who say no to self ID. My @TheScotsman column
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@Lachlan_Edi Isabelle Kerr MBE: Involved in Rape Crisis work for 40 years. A woman can no longer ask if they can get a woman to support her through her trauma. #WomensRally
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