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Today we are publishing ‘A Woman’s Guide to the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021’. The Act, which creates a new offence of ‘stirring up hate’ in relation to ‘transgender identity’, came fully in force from 1 April 2024. murrayblackburnmackenzie.org…
*Except for women in Scotland
Scottish politicians have deliberately painted ordinary women talking about their lives and their rights as hateful bigots who definitely should not to be listened to under any circumstances. Who wouldn’t want to punch one of them, says @crit_gen?
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go Jenny! 💪
#stillnotwheeshting
Extremely useful reading here in the context of ScotGov's decision to proceed with its challenge to the Section 35 Order on the GRR bill.
NEW BLOG: We put the recent letter from the EHRC about the Equality Act into a Scottish context, looking at recent court cases here, Scottish political reaction to it and its relevance to SG plans to bring legal action against the Section 35 Order.
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Thanks to our friends at @mbmpolicy for their work on this petition.
This is very unimpressive from Humza Yousaf on ‘Isla Bryson’ and gender recognition. Is it very old fashioned to expect a prospective FM to know what he’s talking about?
Spoke with @HumzaYousaf today while he was on the campaign trail - about his new childcare policy/how he'd pay for it, SG delivery of policy, about A&E waits, and if he can now call Isla Bryson a man after he was sentenced to 8 years in prison for a double rape... @LBC @LBCNews
Thread. Solidarity with @EdinUniAFAF in their efforts to reschedule the screening of @AHFdoco at @EdinburghUni
The university held, without protest, an event which suggested that holding gender critical views was an example of online radicalisation and hate and featured content suggesting that support for provisions of the equality act was transphobic
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Interesting interview with Angela Rayner, who gets herself into the same pickle as Nicola Sturgeon over "Isla Bryson". "No debate" has served these politicians very badly. Now that self-ID is finally being subject to media scrutiny, they're left looking foolish & getting tetchy.
The brilliant @DeccaJourno interviews Angela Rayner and absolutely nails her on the idiocy of her support of self-ID
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Solidarity with Dr Shonagh Dillon. Yet another example of academic witch hunting.
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Thread of press reaction to Nicola Sturgeon's resignation . . .
A test is about to come of how far the Scottish media and senior politicians are willing to let the current First Minister frame the narrative. heraldscotland.com/politics/…
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‘Asked about gender recognition yesterday she said she wished the debate could be more “rational”, insinuating women who opposed her policy were irrational. She might as well have called them hysterical witches. But in the end the witches could not be tellt.’
Thanks to @thetimes for commissioning me to write this piece following resignation announcement of Nicola Sturgeon thetimes.co.uk/article/chief…
"The tragedy of a misogynistic world is that it makes girls believe they need a cure for femaleness. The scandal of GIDS is that it pretended it could supply one."
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Great to see this piece about the mighty MBM in The Times this morning.
Grateful to have the chance to talk about our work with @KennyFarq for this article in today's @timesscotland
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‘Women have the right to safety, and biological males do not have the right to enter women-only spaces. It really is no more complicated than that.’ thetimes.co.uk/article/snp-t…
some might say about time. We say this damnable policy should never have been implemented in the first place. No males in female spaces. Full stop
NEW After uproar over the cases of Isla Bryson and Tiffany Scott, the movement of transgender inmates in Scotland is paused while the prison service carries out an ‘urgent review’. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-6…
Worth revisiting this in light of recent events: @crit_gen asks Fulton MacGregor MSP about gender reform and prisons. Scotland's women have been badly let down by many of its politicians
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and a very nice companion piece to our own mini thread #NoToSelfID
UK Govt intervention on GRR and the scandal of double rapist Adam Graham going to a women’s prison have woken more people up to what gender self-ID really means. New to this? In 2022 we hosted public meetings with expert voices on two potent topics – young people and sport 1/5
Listen to Dr Shereen Benjamin, a senior lecturer in primary education, on gender identity ideology and young people, on its impact in schools and on how teachers are encouraged to respond to children claiming to be trans 2/5
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