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Frustrated fan of competent government in Scotland. Freelance HE researcher. Never nuanced enough apparently. Also one of .

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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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On 22/2/21, at a meeting of the hate crime bill committee, I asked whether bill supporters intended it to make certain statements criminal in their own right. They said not. Here's the list MBM submitted in advance (and what was said at it).
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If another man ever behaves like that again towards a woman in the house of commons, I hope every woman there with any sense of common experience with other women, gets up, walks across the chamber, and sits alongside her. Labour have a plain sight abuser in their ranks.
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There is a straight line from mainstream politicians recoiling from being asked to define “women” and the inability of women to meet without this happening.
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Adam Maidment
2 years
Protestors are now outside the Mechanics Institute where the Woman’s Place UK group are holding a conference on ‘single-sex provision in policy and law’. @MENnewsdesk
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For decades, thousands and thousands of young women working at fringe venues have had to put up with listening to unpleasantly sexist material, drunk pushy sleazy men in the audience and male comedians hitting on them, with no outpouring of support./
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One day, someone may explain convincingly to me how the insistence on not describing this person as a man is good for any demographic except men. But they've not managed yet.
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1 year
A woman sitting quietly in the row behind me at the @SP_EHRCJStage 2 hearing on the GRR Bill wearing a purple, white and green knitted scarf, has just been asked to take it off or leave the hearing. She has left. @DalgetySusan
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
1 year
25 years ago I joined the team putting the law in place to establish the Scottish Parliament, and then I led the team putting in place the arrangements for the first elections. At the time, it felt like the privilege of my life.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
2 years
In other news, I am (very) happy to be able to say that I have passed my PhD.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
2 years
If your feminism creates young women who, when they have experiences in a changing room that frighten them too much to face ever going back alone, but unable to name the need for a space men can't enter, is it really feminism?* * No, really, it's not.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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An event took place in Aberdeen today at which this woman was punched by a man. It comes shortly after a convicted torturer advocated punching women like her, at an event in London, and the chair of a major charity did a bit of "both sides" on TV.
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JFM ♀️ Agent 5000
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@WWWheesht Thank you, everyone. I'm ok. Very shaken up will have a badly bruised arm and black eye I'm definitely not gonna wheesht. They can beat us, and they can scream at us and call us names. But it only hardens our resolve if you resort to violence you have already lost.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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Some women round my age met for lunch. They had the temerity to share pictures of themselves looking happy and unashamed. Some of the reaction revealed a degree of sexism and ageism from male people that I’d suggest listening to *really hard*. I mean, *really hard*.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
1 year
So forgive me if I find the sudden outburst of alarm about "workers' rights" at the fringe opportunistic shallow tosh.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
1 year
A convicted male rapist is reported as being remanded in Cornton Vale. There is no defensible policy that does this. Utterly shameful day for Scotland.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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This morning I sat in Committee and watched the performance of a government minister which I would describe without hestitation as shameful. Speaking notes that showed contempt for reasoned debate, and contempt for any group (women, here) getting in the government's way.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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Roses are red, Violets are blue, Avoid raging sexists Like Jonathan Liew.
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J.K. Rowling
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@jonathanliew Your previous remarks leave no room for mystery about your own special interest in this subject. Like many ‘progressive’ misogynists, you seem delighted to have found an acceptable outlet for your disdain for women’s and girls’ sport. We see you, Jonathan.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
2 years
Never ever post stuff again about women having to do emotional labour, if you defend what is happening to the women swimmers here.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
1 year
The non-custodial sentence for the man who raped a 13 year old when he was 17 has just made Scotland more dangerous for teenage girls. The boys they spend most time around have just all been told they are, in effect, officially free to predate.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
1 year
Whatever sort of victory the government achieves here, it won't be a moral one. Or one for the Scottish Parliament, which emerges tarnished from this process. And it could break your heart.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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In later stages of brain cancer my sister was convinced she was on a train: challenge to that was very distressing to her. If your activism ends up requiring people with dementia to be challenged when they perceive sex *correctly*, I'm at the "held mend you" stage.
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@francesweetman @LucyHunterB It will be a cold day in hell when I reprimand a distressed wee old lady for anything. Not a chance.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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In a truly incredible breakthrough, it appears the Scottish Prison Service has worked out how to predict whether a man will commit a sexual or violent offence, with enough certainty to feel it's OK to bang him up with women who have no means of escape.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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It's strange to think that this week MSPs will take evidence on gender recognition reform almost entirely from witnesses who think that I'm more of an affront to a good society than the gentlemen on camera here. And that that view is likely to be received largely with sympathy.
@thewomencov
♀️🦖The Women Coventry💚🤍💜
2 years
#LetWomenSpeak @StandingforXX Speaker's Corner event in #Bristol . Some of us were there and took this video. Aggressive men rage-shouting at women. For speaking up for our rights. These #PoundShopNinjas will not silence us.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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Greer says what I think and have thought since my teens. Every single man who suggests I've been "radicalised" by anything other than magnificent women like her, and my own experience, is a patronising fool who simply betrays his own sexism every time he says so.
@MrsNickyClark
Nicky Clark
1 year
This on the difference between gender & sex is superb. Also iconic on ageism targeting women. An inconvenient fact in assurances that the generational war on self ID & single sex spaces led by older women, stems from bigotry & hate #ActingYourAgeCampaign
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A 20 year old woman has been sentenced to 24 years in prison for failing to comply with compulsory head-covering for women in public. Let these women talk.
@AlinejadMasih
Masih Alinejad 🏳️
2 years
Please listen to what I say in this video and never say that Middle East has so many “bigger problems” and hijab is a small issue. For removing such a small piece of cloth women are paying a heavy price in Iran. Join our new campaign called: #LetUsTalk
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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Oh bloody hell, Labour. You need to run some training for your younger activists on the Equality Act.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
2 years
When perceptions conflict, whose matter: the victim or the perpetrator? The view below is not a twitter oddity but represents what is now the official position of the police and courts. If you think you missed the stage when we agreed this as a society, however, you'd be right.
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Medical practitioner. I can’t even.
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"In 1981, LEGOs were simple and gender-neutral, and the creativity of the child produced the message. In 2014, it’s the reverse: the toy delivers a message to the child, and this message is weirdly about gender.” As a 70s child, 2010s parent: exactly this.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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The rules for attendees on the reverse of the ticket only mentions "banners or slogans". There were no words on the scarf, which was being worn in an entirely normal way. I think this is a case of discrimination based on a protected belief.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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But the process is stacked against them. Most depressing was a Minister who appears now to be actually allergic to saying the word "woman" and responded to concrete concerns with sometimes contradictory, often absurd technocratic blancmange.
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I'm 57. At Black's age I was on a much smaller income, generating a less cushy pension, quietly learning from an amazing 50-something woman (a long-time out lesbian, as it happens); including how to spot a publicity-hungry political fraud, a skill that remains useful.
@CforWomenUK
Conservatives for Women
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“Mhairi Black said that “bad actors” & “50-year-old Karens” were responsible for the debate over transgender rights & suggested those who vocally disagreed with her views on such issues could not be “decent” people.” Play stupid games, win stupid prizes…
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This is a demonstration of agonisingly poor thinking about law, policy and practice, from someone who I assume expects to be in government, making law and policy, sometime soon.
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It’s fascinating to hear someone who did not grow up as a girl and a woman denying sex is or should be relevant to women’s rights./
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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Blimey. If women using the line "I had to steal, not because I'm a thief, but because I couldn't buy what I needed to feed my family" received as much understanding from @CPSUK as this historical washing line raider, I suspect the courts would be rather quieter.
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WeAreFairCop
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The Crown Prosecution Service fully appreciates why trans women must steal knickers from peoples washing lines. @CPSUK
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
1 year
Women leaving room for the 15 minute break have been told they will not be readmitted if they are wearing green, white and purple tartan scarves that a couple have. As one staff member (very politely) explains that, the other holding the door open is wearing a rainbow lanyard.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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If your feminism can't name a common factor here, it's not very useful.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
1 year
I have a close friend whose beloved mother in law, a survivor of domestic abuse, spent her last days in fear because a very agitated male person was in the next bed to her on a supposedly women only ward. Good public policy is not built on easy platitudes.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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In a setting where the Parliament had allowed the debate to be rushed, confused and confusing and constructed to minimise effective scrutiny and holding the government to account, and the most ardent supporters of changing the law were too cowardly to put their position forward.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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"Well, I’ve decided I’m no longer playing this game. I’m not the one who should be ashamed... And playing nice has got me nowhere." @HJoyceGender blows the whistle about the institutions which have dropped her.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
1 year
People were asked on the door if they intended to ask certain questions and turned away if they said they were (at 7 minutes). There are some serious questions to ask about the culture of the third sector in Scotland.
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LBC
1 year
Women were 'turned away' for fear of them asking the 'wrong questions' at an event about violence against women, says Susan Smith of @ForWomenScot . Guests were asked to refrain from discussing the definition of a woman and single-sex spaces. @ShelaghFogarty
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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Wait till he hears about the £300k of public money the Scottish Government has just given a quasi-quango to spend on a PR firm to help it communicate its messages about intersectional gender architecture beacons. He'll be furious!
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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Before we go too far down the road of arguing why certain male prisoners *shouldn't* be moved into women's prisons, we need to ask why *any* male prisoners should. (If it's safety or happiness, why in this case but not others?)/
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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Your country has a massive long-standing problem with domestic abuse and a disproportionate incidence of sexual assault. Thanks for being so frank in how you choose to represent it.
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Rod Emmerson
1 year
Today’s HeraldOnSunday Rod Emmerson’s cartoons: Week of March 20 - 26
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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What was not obvious from the pictures online earlier this week is that the monument to women burnt as witches in Prestonpans is *very big*. So she is not only beautiful but also magnificent. Wonderful, dramatic work by Andy Scott.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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In a move that would be appreciated by the great satirists of Ireland, its campaign to get more women elected has just appointed a bloke as its chief executive. Nothing says commitment to women's equality like giving a man the job. 🤦‍♀️
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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Answer: one who should f*ck right out of working in care. When a male carer was rostered to do the shower slot for Mum and she was unhappy, here's what he did: respected her and rang the office to ensure he was never rostered for that slot again, sorted her breakfast. A good man.
@londoner_woman
Londoner
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What kind of man would inist he had the right to touch a naked 93-year-old woman against her wishes? This is why women need the right to same-sex care. Prioritising gender identity over a person's sex undermines women's safety.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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So. If the police see no criminality in @jk_rowling 's tweets, can we now please talk about the application of disciplinary penalties to women in prison who just want to use pronouns in an ordinary way, as related to a person's sex, not their gender identity? @NoXYinXXprisons
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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I had to look this up for myself. In the middle of health and cost of living crisis the SG really is proposing to classify porridge oats - one of the cheapest, healthiest, most filling and let's be honest, Scottish, food staples, as too unhealthy to sell at a discount.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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The silence now of ministers, committee members and other MSPs, and others, who have been so keen in the past to defame and disparage people who disagree with them makes me think that perhaps, just perhaps, we may not be dealing with such brave and principled people after all.
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There were bright spots - some MSPs trying to salvage something like a decent process from the ashes of one which has burnt to the ground the ambitions of the many people who campaigned for Holyrood exist.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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This is the Deputy Convener of the Scottish Parliament's Equalities, *Human Rights* and Civil Justice Committee. Up to her fellow 128 MSPs now to decide now how far this passes without comment from them.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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I do not understand why this was not career ending for him as a media pundit.
@joannaccherry
Joanna Cherry KC
1 month
It’s a pity that Scottish journalists interviewing India Willoughby today did not ask about this late night tweet fantasising about kidnapping me, J. K. Rowling & Maya Forstater. Police took it seriously enough to visit & issue advice and a warning.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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🧵The Labour MPs in yesterday's debate had not been briefed by people who cared about those MPs' personal reputations as competent, let alone skilled, legislators./
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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There is no context in which it is defensible for government officials to offer up changes to national law and policy as a way of scoring credits for their performance *as an employing organisation*. Absolutely none. On any subject. Not ever.
@kathmurray1
Dr Kath Murray
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Points for policy: this long read, by @TimesLucy , on how Stonewall has influenced the policy and legislative direction in Scotland and elsewhere, is astonishing in its detail.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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I wish we’d known when the hate crime bill was being discussed that if a police officer believes I have published something which is a criminal offence, they can tell me that they believe that, without also telling me at the same time what it is I have published that does so.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
3 years
I am listening to @Docstockk on @BBCWomansHour on the mechanisms of “ejection from the tribe”, on the lack of public support from her colleagues, on exactly what she saw about herself on campus and online, and it’s heart-breaking for her, but also for the university system.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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No, you exceptionally dense people who should not be allowed near public policy, it implies violent male prisoners are seeing a benefit in declaring themselves to be women after they come into contact with the criminal justice system.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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I was in the room when a member of ERCC staff said under oath this morning that : "I'm not aware of any physical threats"; "not aware of tangible threats of violence"; "there no actual attacks on the centre"; "there weren't any protests outside the centre." /
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
2 years
Just a member of the committee scrutinising the GRR bill being cheerfully photographed with someone who fantasises about beating up people like me (I shall assume I fall within his definition). Yet more of such stuff that Scottish politicians from multiple parties will ignore.
@Ayrshirelass13
Ayrshirelass
2 years
Aww. That's nice. Two misogynists in one photo and more puerile, unprofessional behaviour from Karen Adam's office staff.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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Terrible from Gilruth. Ill-tempered, petulant, point-scoring, trivial, evasive. Minister, you've just been told an organisation you fund for 13 to 25-year-olds is in primary schools. And this is the best you can do? This must be the weakest ministerial team since devolution.
@ForWomenScot
For Women Scotland
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Full exchange here.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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Oh, I've just found that I am blocked by the Convenor of the Scottish Parliament's Equalities, Civil Justice and Human Rights Committee. It's weird discovery, when I'm not the one who's been accidentally photographed in front of a sign advocating decapitation.🤷‍♀️
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
7 months
Giving PhDs to people who will protest against a book written in plain language that they have not read, because "experts" (who don't seem to be present themselves?) have told them it is a Bad Book, is a very expensive way of producing clockwork toys.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
2 years
It's odd to live in a time and place where it's safer or simpler for women in senior roles to defend the appointment of a man as a "period dignity officer" than a woman from being badly treated for a brilliant, angry, funny, original, 5*, life-changing show about female anatomy.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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There’s something very odd going on around implicitly normalising young women in higher education selling themselves for the sexual gratification of men and if you are planning to support a young woman through HE anytime soon, I’d suggest taking an interest.
@nordicmodelnow
Nordic Model Now!
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@HackneyAbbott Our understanding is that this training was provided by Leicester University, which has funding from the ESRC to roll it out to universities all around the UK. If you are worried about this development, please sign our petition:
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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It puts beyond doubt that the SG, either deliberately or incompetently, spent 5 years avoiding getting to grips with how the GRA and the Equality Act inter-act or talking about that in detail with the UK govt. Despite being told repeatedly all that time it was a central issue.
@HumzaYousaf
Humza Yousaf
5 months
🧵 Today's judgment confirms beyond doubt that devolution is fundamentally flawed. The Court has confirmed that legislation passed by a majority in Holyrood can be struck down by Westminster. The only way to guarantee we get true self-government is through independence.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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Dear media, can you please stop reversing sex in reports on violent offending, for which sex - not identity - is the most statistically secure predictor and getting it the wrong round creates a seriously confusing impression for readers?
@ripx4nutmeg
ripx4nutmeg
3 months
An Oxford court has heard that a 'woman' who's on trial for putting a cat in a blender before murdering a random man in the street is actually a cross-dressing man. This came out after he admitted that he'd said he wanted to murder his parents because they knew he was male
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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This is beneath contempt from a group of people who, any time up to his arrest (and perhaps after) would happily have handed Andrew Miller a piece of paper giving him default legal rights of access to single sex spaces for women and girls.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
1 year
I loathe with a vengeance that a twee pink heart is seen as somehow specially appropriate as a symbol to associate with women's rights, and that in our current political culture all the people round him thought it was a good look. #NotTheFunKind
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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It turns out it's much pleasanter to arrive at an event to discuss women's rights without having to go through a barrage of amplified abuse and/or physical obstruction. Wild thought: this should be normal.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
11 months
The way to establish if women are made to feel uncomfortable by the presence of someone obviously male in any women's space is not to ask the male person if anyone challenged them, but to give the women somewhere they can safely tell people how it felt for them.
@ForWomenScot
For Women Scotland
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@TheBoiledbeetle @MForstater @Siobhain_Mc Many of us did when he was in Holyrood. He never considered how intimidating he looks and sounds.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
1 year
Normal more analytic service may be resumed later.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
2 years
@glosswitch It's unbearable, this idea that all the girls who they so blithely label as "cis" are embracing puberty like putting on some beautiful perfectly fitting garment, when the truth is so very different for so many. Unbearably wrong. Offensively, ignorantly, arrogantly wrong.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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One of the lowest points of the court hearing was listening to SG counsel and at least one judge casually dismiss the right of women ever to meet together without any men present in something like, say, a book group, as relatively trivial.
@FeministRoar
FeministRoar
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Surely everyone can see how wrong it is that it's illegal for a group of more than 25 women to meet free from men or for lesbians/gay men to meet without the opposite sex, or for male comparators to be allowed to mess up women's legal protections? It's all so rage inducing.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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In autumn 2019 a very close long-time friend of mine who was raped when we were both younger was traumatised - there's not other word - by a meeting she attended. For a long time, she and the other women were too distressed to say anything in public/
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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I have been asked if anyone in the room is wearing a rainbow lanyard. Two of the committee members are.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
7 months
If you say that Miller couldn't count as a woman under self-ID policies & laws, or isn't "trans" according to the definitions used by the main groups lobbying for that, you are *at best* an utter fool or else too lazy to do the most basic research before commenting (shame on you)
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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@ProfWootton @tryingattimes “We demand the right to bully people in safety” in quite a pitch.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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Haven't had to watch the UK-level Stonewall operation in action close up till the last few days, and it's pretty mind-blowing. How are you all not asking them major questions about their organisational ethics before you do anything else @10DowningStreet @UKLabour @BBCNews ?
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
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Men. We do this to men, routinely. A (bog standard) man, however lovely, can't sue for access to certain services/spaces. See for example the Equality Act 2010, Sch 3, Pt 7, para 27(6)(b).
@BBCPhilipSim
Philip Sim
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Nicola Sturgeon's core point from today's Q&A, on the trans prisons row - "there is no other group in society where we accept that the actions of an individual somehow forms a justification for taking away rights from the whole group, or not according rights to that group"
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
2 years
This is what the complete collapse of respect for women to set boundaries based on sex looks like. Also, belief discrimination in medicine. The time to start caring about this really is now.
@ripx4nutmeg
ripx4nutmeg
2 years
In one of the most shocking stories you could read, a London hospital has cancelled a woman's life-saving operation at the last minute because it doesn't 'share her values'. That 'value' she had was that she wanted the aftercare nurses to be female 1/12
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
1 year
If you suspected that the group of people at the top of Scottish politics for the last decade or so were more concerned with "constructing narratives" than making things they are in charge of work well for the rest of us, the last few days has been a festival of confirmation bias
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
2 years
@reallorraine Will you give this local candidate for the nomination a shout out too? It wouldn't be fair if celebrities with high profiles got a boost from their networks, but those who have been working for their community locally don't?
@Abtisam_Mohamed
Abtisam Mohamed
2 years
I’m thrilled to announce I’m putting myself forward to be our next Labour MP in Sheffield Central. I’ll fight for change for our communities, our city and our country, every single day. Join our campaign and let’s bring about the change we want to see.🌹
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
1 year
Very much enjoying the discovery that the Scottish government is completely taken by surprise that there were any issues around equality act. Haven't yet found the zip up my back, but SG obviously thinks that we all have one.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
23 days
Patrick Harvie diminishes government in Scotland. A tightly coiled bundle of anger and contempt, projecting his own nature onto those who cross him.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
1 year
@Obsolesence
🦖Obsolesence
1 year
I have just been asked to remove my new scarf. I refused because its lovely & inoffensive. Apparently @ScotParl believes these colours are unacceptable while several MSPs wear rainbow lanyards. @ScotParl is now policing clothing colours. #WomenWontWheesht
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
2 years
If I was a white straight man and a black lesbian in my profession had just won a discrimination case reflecting very badly on the collectively-run outfit where she worked, I would feel a bit constrained from broadcasting what a supportive profession it is for me. Personally.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
3 years
If you’re in a university and believe that the primacy of gender identity and the irrelevance of sex is the only true faith that should be held and expressed there, you have accidentally ended up in the wrong place and would be much happier in some new form of theological college
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
1 year
It has been drawn to my attention that various purple, green and white items are for sale in the Scottish Parliament gift shop, including purple, green and white tartan scarves for the Parliament (we've now reached peak absurdity).
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
2 years
And I'll say it again - who does this really help? This ideological insistence on labelling a male rapist a woman? Who does it really help? Which group? Explain to me how this is remotely a good thing for anyone. Other than a sub-branch of the sclerotically hard of thinking.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
2 years
I'm still processing the thought that this extraordinary woman had the police set on her, and they visited ...
@The_PA
PerthshireAdvertiser
2 years
Perthshire domestic abuse survivor’s new law to protect women moves one step closer to reality
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
1 year
I think Shona Robison should resign.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
1 month
And now we have the background to why this promise was broken, without explanation or apology. "... and it would upset the transgender lobby." As for "nothing to gain"..../
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
2 months
This letter contains in its annex a short story that illustrates as neatly as anything that's happened over the past 5 years the arrogant dishonesty that we and others have encountered from government, for being the wrong type of people, outside the tent, annoying, unwelcome.🧵/
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
2 years
“Only prudish anti-sex Mary Whitehouse types would see any problem with asking every child of 14 to answer intrusive questions about their sexual experience” tells me a person would be better staying off research ethics committees.🤨
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
7 months
Join me live, as I embark on a further round of the exciting game "attending an event at Edinburgh University which treats the sex of human beings as something that is sometimes important and they can't change". 1/n...
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
6 months
I reckon this is what actual 'gender euphoria' looks like, using 'gender' in the useful old-school social-critique feminist sense. These are men (in Liverpool last month, Edinburgh last night) visibly reveling in their freedom to shout in complete safety at disobedient women.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
2 years
...During that year she has almost come to the edge of a nervous breakdown, because being disbelieved about being raped in hospital has been such an appalling shock. The hospital, with all its CCTV, has had to admit that the rape happened and that it was committed by a man.”
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
5 months
I've been stewing on this. It can be excruciating enough as a teenager being in a single sex changing room. The idea that your peers of the opposite sex *just getting to see you take your clothes off* wouldn't of itself be "something bad", is bananas.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
5 months
@ForWomenScot "We put something in place that any sensible teacher up to last Wednesday would have instantly recognised is bad... so that "nothing bad" will happen." What on earth has gone wrong with people?
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
3 years
Listen to women, including their silence.
@WomenReadWomen
Genevieve Gluck
3 years
Li Wenwen, Emily Campbell, and Sarah Robles all ignored a question about Laurel Hubbard when asked about their thoughts during a press conference. "No, thank you." 🔥 #SexMatters #Olympics #LaurelHubbard #OlympicGames
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
1 year
Lots of young women would very happily have been allowed not to work particular shifts, and have known complaining about the "talent" and the talent's entourage would do nothing but cause them problems. And it'll be true again this year and in years to come.
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Lola
1 year
@LucyHunterB THIS. Myself and load of other young women had to put up with Sean Hughes at a venue, an absolute fucking creep of a comedian.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
4 years
@TheBodyShop @jk_rowling Am I right to read you Companies House entry as showing that all your Directors are male? When your staff and customers are mainly women?
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
8 months
For several years, my timeline has been peppered with crowdfunders from people who had been discriminated against for not being willing to pretend to believe human beings can change sex, or that sex doesn't matter. Increasingly, now, it's filling up with outcomes like this.
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Cathy Boardman
8 months
I am pleased to announce that I have reached an agreement with my previous employer : 1/
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
1 year
Still reflecting on the discovery there's now a banned tartan in some parts at least of the Scottish Parliament building.
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Lucy HunterBlackburn
23 days
Just for benefit of any passing politicians: I now rarely go to any event, whether just in my local community or with my HE research hat on, without someone coming up to me and thanking me for the fact that I'm one of the women who l have spoken out and telling me to carry on/
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