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“Hotchkiss warned that proposals to make it easier for individuals to switch gender would allow many more men “who may want to hurt women” to gain transgender status and be housed among female prisoners.” #LGBAallianceScotland

thetimes.co.uk/edition/scotla…
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“Hotchkiss was among more than 150 activists who gathered in Glasgow yesterday to launch LGB Alliance Scotland which aims to build public support to force a U-turn by ministers.” It has been co-founded by Bev Jackson, a gay rights activist.” #LGBAllianceScotland
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”The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) said there were 10 transgender women behind bars as of last week. At least three are understood to have been denied transfer to the female estate amid concern they pose a risk to themselves and women.”
#LGBAllianceScotland
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”A Scottish woman who went through the process of transitioning from a girl to a boy, including surgery, in her early 20s...she deeply regrets her decision...she was fast-tracked through the Scottish system and given minimal medical or psychiatric help.”
#LGBAllianceScotland
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“...why on earth would the Scottish government contemplate lowering the age of gender recognition to 16? it will lead to 100s of kids making profound mistakes that will haunt them for the rest of their lives.”
#LGBAllianceScotland
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@stonewalluk is a political lobbying group. It‘s not democratically elected. It has no mandate to declare itself the voice of *all* LGBT ppl, yet it behaves as if it does — & is treated by government, charitable & private sector orgs as if it speaks for us all. It does not. 1/
@stonewalluk has spun LGBT rights so completely that *any* challenge or question to its agenda is deemed hate speech, rather than being a healthy & essential part of a functioning democracy. It made it respectable for youth to no platform, scream at & threaten feminists. 2/
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Men who are sexually aroused by being seen as woman are often the very same men who are before the courts for sexual offending while identifying as female. Self-ID makes no provision to screen out these men, they have to self-screen and, guess what? They don’t.

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The figures do not include those trans prisoners who are not serving for sexual offences but are known sex offenders. Shockingly, the FOI would not reveal the birth sex of the offender but in English law rape can only be committed by men. We need more accurate data.
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1/ This event confirmed in my mind just how delusional, ill-informed and anti-women proponents of self-ID are, even the lawyers. In response to a question about safeguarding, Stephen Whittle scoffed that men have always had access to women’s changing rooms, all they needed to do
2/ was grab a bucket and make like they’re the cleaner. He went on to characterise women and feminists concerned about self-ID as fanatics, funded by US Evangelicals. There was lots of talk about barriers that trans identified people face but nothing about safeguarding.
3/ The position as regards ‘trans kids’ was even more worrying. The best interests of the child has been interpreted by Mermaids unequivocally as being that it is in children’s best interests to have their gender identity affirmed.
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