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THREAD: Today we, along with sister organisations @ZTScotland, @rapecrisisscot, @closethepaygap @scotwomensaid and @EquateScotland, have written to Joan McAlpine MSP following her inaccurate and damaging tweets about national women's organisations and the Census. 
In the letter, we confirmed again that all of our organisations are independent of Scottish Government, that our policy advocacy positions are entirely rooted in our decades of expertise and analysis, and that Engender's membership is open to all feminist women.
We also reaffirmed that our engagement with the Census was to ensure that the best quality gender-disaggregated data is being gathered across Scotland, so it can support women's and girls' equality and rights.
Finally, we reiterated that we are always willing to work closely with committees and elected representatives, but that we remain concerned that our collective position and work for women's and girls' equality has been so poorly represented.
You can read the full letter here, which we have published in the interest of full transparency, as well as sending directly to Joan McAlpine and members of the Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Affairs Committee. engender.org.uk/news/blog/lett…
We know that Ms. McAlpine's original Twitter thread was widely shared, and want to ensure the broadest possible understanding of our way of working, our independence, and our individual and collective advocacy for women and girls.
ENDS.
ENDS.
