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And on Saturday a woman, that always makes me laugh, read out this lovely poem to a room of women and men that almost certainly ensured all their clothing had pockets (or merkins with pockets), overflowing with sedition.
#BrilliantWomensPoems
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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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So, the
@sp_ehrcj
has started. Every woman in the public gallery is wearing a scarf and clothing encompassing purple, white and green. We even have a suffragette in the room (sat behind Shona). Let the 2nd hearing of the Stage 2 amendment session begin.
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Dear god, Labour Equalities Shadow Minster, Annalise Dodds, has just said she is not sure how adult and female is defined in answer to "how do you define a woman?" on
@BBCWomansHour
#IWD2022
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@AyoCaesar
I have a toilet in my house (no urinal) that one person uses at a time, with no access to strangers. No spy cams, no gaps under or over the door & my neighbours can't see or hear me. I can wash my hands inside without having to share my menstrual status with strangers.
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"Trans females (males)will be banned from women’s events at the cycling world championships in Glasgow next month, the organisers have ruled"
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Words to strike fear into the heart of every festival goer... this sign was stuck on the ladies while the gents had "cubicles & urinals" on the door. Why aren't the gents made Gender neutral
@Gildedballoon
so the women and girls that need a female only space can get it?
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@AyoCaesar
I send children in alone knowing they will be safe, I can leave the door open & let the cat watch me pee (if it wants & it frequently does). I'm not worried about being trapped in there with a stranger or worried who might confront me on exiting. It is *nothing* like a public loo
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I..um...what? A male that took the role advertised for a female in Edinburgh Rape Crisis, that has just been exposed in an employment tribunal for not considering needs of female clients, has done more for women than JKR, the billionaire that funded her own female-only centre?
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I've sat through all but one of the Scottish Parliamentary hearings related to Gender Recognition Reform Bill. Last week I was asked to leave because of my scarf choice, this week a friend was asked to leave after pointing out the Cabinet Secretary was not paying attention 1/
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I think it needs to be pointed out -repeatedly- that there is no such things as a "trans child". If we are talking about children that experience problems with how their bodies are perceived, they have an undiagnosed issue that statistically may have a basis in autism,
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@BBCPolitics
I want the viewers at home to really think why it might be upsetting for women to have to have males in the their wards, prisons and sports, while being referred to as bleeders and uterus-havers.
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I was studying with
@OpenUniversity
when Jo was being harassed. In fact I contacted her to ask for help as students were also being scared in to silence over any discussion about the significance of sex in their studies. 1/
#PhoenixRising
have received the Tribunal’s judgment in my case against the OU today: I won! The Tribunal found that I was discriminated against and harassed because of my gender critical beliefs, and that I was constructively dismissed.
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Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull is a woman that knows that humans have 2 sexes and they are immutable, just like the vast majority of people in the world. However, this has become controversial because a small group of people want to force us to believe that males can become 1/
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We have started!
@ForwomenScot
are laying down the reasons for the protest, the threat to women's rights.
#WomenWontWheesht
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When asked why multiple MSPs & staff were then allowed to wear rainbow lanyards (since they are one of the THE political statements de jour), the Security Manager squirmed and said he understood the point I was making. Now waiting for call from Security Manager's Manager
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I shouldn't have to spend today listening to barristers and judges debate how "woman" can be redefined to include another sex while excluding some of my own. When is it enough? When do we say no more?
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"But the 2 transgender runners at the center of that case said in court filings that being able to run against girls was central to their wellbeing" - What about the girls' wellbeing, being forced to run against boys, & lose to boys, & lose scholarships?
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In an apparent attempt to increase the number of females in the Welsh Senedd,
@markdrakeford
is going to allow males to pretend to be women, taking up spaces intended for actual females. Anyone else sick of this misogyny?
@SeneddWales
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"Women may not truly know they're women unless they have their chromosomes tested, Stonewall has told university staff in its latest diversity training".
How desperate must
#Stonewall
be to keep dragging in medical disorders to discussions of gender woo?
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"More than 3,000 athletes - including over 300 Olympic & Paralympic medallists & other international & national champions - have signed a petition calling on sports authorities to make biological sex a prerequisite for eligibility in women’s swimming"
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Humanists give award to Dawkins for challenging un-evidenced faith based positions.
Humanists remove award from Dawkins for challenging un-evidenced faith based positions.
Today the American Humanist Association Board voted to withdraw, effective immediately, the 1996 Humanist of the Year award it bestowed on Richard Dawkins.
Tap the preview below to read the board's statement explaining why.
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I lost a good friend yesterday. Careless, I know. We all lost her to a female-specific cancer that may have silenced her knitting needles & uproarious sedition, but her crafts & passion live on in every woman that dares to think & speak independently 💪💚🤍💜
@fatblackcatspaw
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This is what a win looks like for women in 2022. Being given their own toilets back to use in peace & safety. And everyone wonders why we are so pissed off at this madness.
#SaveOurSpaces
Women-only public toilets to be reinstated in Camden Town:
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"A Scottish Green party source said the party’s joint leaders, Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater, would almost certainly resign from their ministerial posts if the new SNP leader either delayed or rewrote the gender recognition bill." We can but hope...
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These are some of the wonderful women listening to this hearing, wearing the best combination of colours in the world.
#WomenWontWheesht
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Update: just spoken to Security Manager. Apparently our wicked coloured scarves were spotted on the TV coverage of the committee hearing & the Security Manager's manager decided they were political & should not be displayed. W
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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I'm sick of the treatment of women by
@thesnp
, criticised for paying attention, developing opinions, understanding how laws are made.
#SturgeonDestroyerOfWomensRights
& her misogynistic team are contemptible, not worthy of respect in a democratic society 10/
#WomenWontWheesht
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Well, we know who really is a feminist to her fingertips and it isn't
@nicolasturgeon
. New female-only sexual assault service in Edinburgh.
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I mean, why on earth should be sex be included under hate crimes, no important, never happens. Nothing to see here (watch until the end).
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@lborouniversity
@stonewalluk
Really nothing to be proud of
@lborouniversity
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Perhaps a listen to Nolan's podcast on Stonewall will offer some insight into the bias membership to the scheme attracts :
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It's 2023, 6 years on from the date this was posted on Mumsnet and it's as true now as it was then. An uncanny prediction of what language describing women is like, how our single-sex spaces are invaded, and our sports become less unfair as males take part.
A letter on Mumsnet, to people who accuse the author of being a bigot and a terf. 3 years old so we are 3 years closer to the world she describes and becoming ever more real. Well done Carrotandcornsoup!
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I attended Holyrood today to listen to approx 75 amendments to be debated/voted on for the Gender Recognition Reform Bill. This is a Bill that allows the self identification of one's sex, so a male from age 16 can be certificated as female.
#NoToSelfID
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I am sat in a coffee shop in Edinburgh. A man on an adjacent table is kicking off about the
#GRRBill
. It's glorious. If only more members of the general public were aware of the legislation that's just been voted for In Scotland. Still, it's not law yet!
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On way to work. Had to confront a man who slipped up a path to pee. He got aggressive, I guess you do when shamed. Several work men passed & laughed. When I confronted them they said "nowt to do with me". And that's how it happens guys, nothing to do with you.
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Good luck to
@ForwomenScot
for their appeal today (and tomorrow), as they argue than the Scottish Gov does not have the authority to redefine a male as a female when trying to balance the "gender" on public boards. We're all behind you! ❤
#FWSAppeal
#WomenOnBoards
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A letter on Mumsnet, to people who accuse the author of being a bigot and a terf. 3 years old so we are 3 years closer to the world she describes and becoming ever more real. Well done Carrotandcornsoup!
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@donttrythis
Adam, I have no idea if you understand the sexist, misogynistic well you are wandering in to but can you at least retain some civil language when referring to women you don't agree with? Of all people I'd expect rational language from you. Shameful.
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@ScotGovFM
@ZTScotland
@NicolaSturgeon
@scotgov
The nerve of this. Tweeting this, knowing attendees had been told not to discuss the self ID legislation
@ScotGovFM
is pushing through that will allow males in female spaces takes quite some...denial of reality while pretending to be a feminist
#NoToSelfID
#SturgeonsLaw
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A tampon ad is banned in Ireland because...84 people don't like to think of women having vaginas and periods? This radio presenter lets rip and lays down the facts
#VaginasAreLikeElbows
(There is a prettion in the thread to get it resurrected)
Here's what
@ciarakellydoc
thinks of the Tampax ad being banned by the Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland.
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Ah yes, menstruators. That term that all women like to be called. From a charity that can't bring themselves to say that women are the people that experience endometriosis.
We are excited to share with you all that we welcome Steph (
@PompeySteph
) to the team as our new CEO. Supporting to move forward with our missions as a charity - we are all grateful to have Steph on board. Watch this space for more updates soon 💛
#Endometriosis
#Adenomyosis
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Hate. Apparently we were "literally spitting with hate". I will repeat, I got kicked out for having a woollen scarf round my neck, what are the chances we'd be allowed to stay if we were literally spitting anything?
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I see the London
#TerfCabal
had their monthly knees up over the weekend. Just showing off as they have a Baroness leading the singalong.
Wonderful brave, uppity women.
#WomenWontWheesht
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News just reaching me now...a touching memorial to Magdalen Berns can be found in the Botanic Gardens, left by appreciative friends of her work. Hunt and ye shall find
#SexNotGender
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It never bloody ends.
"‘Sturgeon’s Tavistock’ clinic offers trans children surgery not backed by ‘robust evidence’. Leaked recording reveals that medics at the Sandyford clinic in Glasgow admits there were huge gaps in evidence around trans healthcare" 1/
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@satiricole
@LucyHunterB
8 complaints, 8 complaints and they denounce her without a hearing. Boof, just like that.
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- N Lanarkshire removes funding from 3 (single-sex) women's aid groups
- the contract (for mixed sex) aid was won by SACRO in Feb 2021
- Mridul's partner was a director of SACRO until March 2021
Can anyone smell anything a bit fishy here?
3 women's aid groups in North Lanarkshire had all their local authority funding removed because they would not admit men to refuges or work with perpetrators of abuse. The contract for domestic violence services now sits with SACRO instead. What a travesty
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@MaryHowden
@ForwomenScot
@policescotland
@DoctorsBar
Tis true. Bar staff didn't like faces of women with opinions they disagreed with so told us to leave. Called Police. I don't blame the Police, it was the
@DoctorsBar
@greeneking
bar staff that wanted us our.
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If you can read those tweets & still believe that women's voices are treated evenhandedly by the majority partner in
@scotgov
then you are deluded. We've been told our concerns are not valid by
@nicolasturgeon
& now that they are not concerns but hate 9/
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Strange how women gathering to speak attracts a baying crowd to try to intimidate and silence them. Women with opinions are clearly a terrifying prospect
#LetWomenSpeak
💚🤍💜
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Edinburgh witches wanted to show support for a fellow Edinburgher who has been getting some flack recently. They've passed on photos of their small celebration tour, starting with Heriot's school (inspiration for Hogwarts) 1/
#IStandWithJKRowling
#WomenWontWheesht
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Weekend spent in a room full of psychology students and I am DELIGHTED to report that gender identity is pissing them all off. Men included. Affirmative therapy for those who may want medication and therapy is concerning us all. Healthy scepticism is out there! Hold on.
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@LaurenOxleyx
There are no women-only facilities to support women in Edinburgh, and only a couple in Scotland. When you have experienced secual assault the the SEX of the offender and support team rushes to the forefront. At least have the decency to acknowledge that, for their sakes.
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Hey
@greeneking
I just got kicked out of 1 of your pubs by 5 Police Officers, with about 10 of my friends because your staff object to our beliefs (which we weren't shouting about, we were too busy catching up with each other). Why does
@DoctorsBar
get to treat women like this?
Reports
@policescotland
were used tonight as personal arm of TRA bar staff
@DoctorsBar
who reported women for the heinous crime of paying for drinks and consuming them quietly while in possession of wrong opinions as expressed on T shirts.
5 officers were, apparently, needed.
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This story about a 4yr old boy, described to his female classmates as a boy, has consequences on the girls' ability to trust anything an adult says again. This is exactly the scenario that
@girlguiding
brought in, 2017. Rainbow Guides (now from 4yrs old) allow girls to become 1/
FYI: Four-year-old boy allowed to join school as a girl is no Grimm fairytale but a real-life nightmare
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People you are referring to as "intersex" have a sex-based medical disorder (still M or F) which has absolutely nothing to do with sexuality or gender identity. Why don't you add Autism to the flag or those with varicose veins? It would be just as relevant.
The Intersex-Inclusive Pride flag is officially flying at City Hall.
By raising the flag ahead of Pride in London this Sat, we’re showing the world that our city is a beacon of diversity. Excited to see our LGBTIQ+ communities & allies come together this weekend.
#LGBTwiththeI
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"She also highlighted the case of a 14yr old girl who refused a cervical smear as her mother had requested a female nurse & the person who was due to carry it out was “very clearly a natal male”.
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Just going to point out, she didn't make sure I was okay after being kicked out for wearing suffrage colours that someone, somewhere, decided were unacceptable in the seat of Scotland's democratic process. Some sodding feminist
@karenAdamsMSP
is. But anyway...4/
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I've had my secret instructions about where to go for a meeting tonight of (mainly) women who want to discuss proposed legislation changes by the Scottish Gov. Why should women have to take such precautions for our safety over a legal meeting in 2020 to discuss women's rights?
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"Of course biological sex is real – it’s just not the end of the conversation. I am somebody who would say that a trans woman is an adult human female. I would say that you and I were adult human females"
Huh? Sex is real but males can change sex? 🤡
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Why, in 2020, should women have to be organising to protest that male-bodied players being allowed with female players in community and club rugby, because the "sporting" body is too scared to stand up for their safety. 20 sodding 20.
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Just popped over to display the address of a woman they disagree with, who already receives death threats as a result of their inability to behave like adults.
Please report the original tweet for displaying JKR's address.
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@ShonaRobison
says all sex offenders will be very good boys and attend a police station and tell the boys and girls in blue when they wish to change sex. Because sex offenders, as it says on the tin, totally reliable when it comes to warn the police *before* they commit a crime.
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@MaggieChapman
@UCUScotland
@UniteScotland
@unisonscot
I am a woman in science & your attempt to sidle up to us after your behaviour over the last year or so appalls me. Your hypocrisy, denouncing us for our evidenced-based concerns for our safety, disgusts me. You have betrayed women & girls so take your faux "honour" elsewhere.
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"It is disgraceful that Scotland is the only nation in Great Britain where the lives of female rugby players count for less than the feelings of the men who want to play on women's teams"
Are
@Scotlandteam
misogynists or cowards I wonder?
#SaveWomensSports
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I got removed from a Parliamentary hearing for wearing the colours of women's suffrage. How on earth can you think Holyrood is the place for women that accept basic facts like sex is binary, immutable & protected in law if you need to police their clothes for being too political?
Men outnumber women by 2 to 1 on most elected bodies.
Women's fight for political equality is ongoing.
That's why I'm supporting
@5050Parliament
's
#AskHerToStand
Day.
If you know a woman who'd make a great elected representative, ask them to sign up:
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Anyone confused about why women, & sensible men, are raging about rape & sex on Twitter today (& for some time to come)? Well, there is a new Bill going through the Scottish Parliament, the Forensic Medical Services Bill 1/
#SexNotGender
#SixWords
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@KarenAdamMSP
Karen, I was in the group by the side gate chanting "Women Wont Wheesht" & "Shame On You". We both know that it wasn't aimed at you an individual since we couldn't make out faces.There women in that crowd that are rape and abuse survivors & we all have a right to feel
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I'm so please Jo won her case as she (and another troublesome OU employee) gave me a lot of strength to keep fighting while studying. Hopefully OU can be saved, or at least made to comply with the law in time, & students can return to questioning, challenging & thinking freely.
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Engaging with legislative proceses, responding to consultations, taking time off work to attend hearings, writing to with MSPs, for a Bill I strongly believe will undermine rights & safety of women & children is exactly what feminism is about & I will not be told otherwise 4/
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If only the "Vagina Museum" hadn't lectured and insulted all the vagina-owners, it might have survived 🌮🌮🌮
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Hey
@BBCSport
, in the interest of famous BBC balance, where are the articles from female rugby players who are worried about their safety when playing against male-bodied players? Hmm?
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Adams MSP conflated a single woman standing up in public, expressing her disgust at the parlous legislative process and the Cabinet Secretary caught doodling, with attacking & harassment & not representing feminism. 3/
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Ellie, you are literally on
@BBCScotland
right now claiming that Joanna Cherry, & the women who share her views, would make you feel unsafe, carefully laced with the implication you face a threat of physical violence. You have just done the verbal equivalent of burning books. 1/
Not going to QT because it's not helpful to further a pile-on against a queer-led local business, but I'm begging, pleading folk to spend even just a few seconds thinking about what they're seeking to achieve from their activism and what impact it's likely to have.
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Ooof. Lord Blencathra explaining so many Lords spoke for the amendment to exclude male prisoners from female prisoners because so many Baronesses were too scared to speak, for fear of abuse. In the House of Lords. He is on 🔥
#Amendment214
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Why did Scot Gov decide in 2018 to redefine "woman" to include males, end up losing in court & will end up having to pay costs to
@FWS
?
Not a simple answer but worth considering because the causes still remain in Scot Gov & more (tax payer funded) 1/
#SaveOurSex
#SOS
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A letter has been written in support of JK Rowling and signed by many Scottish women+men. You can add your name as well by using the contact page :-
#IStandWithJKRowling
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@guardian
It will surprise no-one that JK Rowling is my person of 2021. When an easy road was available to her, she has instead used her literary skills & time to stand up for women, their language & their rights, in the face of abuse & threats of violence and death. Respect
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#IDEVAW
Today is about violence directed at women & girls because of their sex.
#SexNotGender
. To describe this as "gender-based violence" (I'm looking at you
@scotgov
) conflates both sexes, different motivations, different outcomes. Today, let's keep the focus on females
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The only entitlement we have is the ability to arrange our lives to engage with democracy & for that we are vilified, denounced and - strangest of all - criticised for even bothering to engage when most public galleries in Parliament are bare. 8/
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by a committee member who voted down every single amendment that sought to lessen the detrimental impact of the proposed law.
Makes you wonder how our views can be treated respectfully when such dramatic claims are made about the public, about women Adams disagrees with 5/
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'Some of those men are six foot four in dresses. They are not coming in spaces with my daughter. Over my dead body.
'I am not intimidated. I will not be silenced.'
#LetWomenSpeak
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"
@BBCNews
changed testimony of a rape victim after a debate over pronouns of her transgender attacker. The woman referred to her alleged rapist as “him” but insiders said that her words were changed to avoid “misgendering” the abuser in article on the BBC
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@GuiltFemPod
@DeborahFW
@kemahbob
@mridul_wadhwa
@EdinRapeCrisis
You do know this is a male (legally) that lied to one rape centre by not declaring their sex, and then took a job with Edinburgh Rape Crisis that was advertised for a female. Women are entitled to single-sex services to deal with their trauma.
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Volunteers who work with young girls, from the age of 5 years old, should not be linking it to their sexuality, ever,
@girlguiding
. This is not acceptable for you to encourage it and goes against your own safeguarding guidance. Do better and stop horrifying parents.
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@HomoLittlest
@stellacreasy
And if we are expected to believe that, our ability to identify and prevent discrimination on the basis of sex disappears in a flash of blue and pink smoke.
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I'm appalled that a wonderful institution like
@OpenUniversity
embraces an ideology that limits the ability of staff & students to fully engage on topics, to send students into the world with a shrunken vocab & undeveloped ability to consider significance of sex on human lives 8/
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Amazing service the Scottish Green Council candidates are offering in the May election. Matching up women with medication (they need) from dodgy suppliers (as opposed to medication they choose)
@scottishgreens
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I see that the accusations of right-wing evangelical funding even appear in Jo's own victorious judgment. But in reality, we support brave women like Jo with spare £5s here and there. I consider these some of the best investments I have ever made in my life 💚🤍💜
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@hyggesocks
@jk_rowling
She didn't mention anything to do with transgender people, did she? You did. Women were prevented from speaking at the statue for an incredible woman, prevented by masked people, intimidating them. For once, consider those women? For once.
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At least we have one member of the Scottish Gov who isn't scared of defending women's rights. Go Joanna.
#WomenWontWheesht
#DeedsNotWords
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