#IAmTheStorm @JoanMcAlpine
"A major ideological schism has opened up in feminist thought, with its roots in university gender & so-called queer studies courses, in which it is argued that gender is a personal choice & that sex is an identity.
#BinTheBill
"A major ideological schism has opened up in feminist thought, with its roots in university gender & so-called queer studies courses, in which it is argued that gender is a personal choice & that sex is an identity.
#BinTheBill
"That view is taken by the leadership of most Government-funded organisations. However, it is increasingly being challenged by a growing number of grass-roots feminist movements, which argue that gender roles are oppressive & that women face discrimination, violence & subjugation
"due to the sex that they were born. The debate is polarised, but it is dynamic and changing. Only yesterday, one of the grass-roots feminist groups succeeded in a legal challenge to the UK census, which will force the Office for National Statistics to collect sex information in
"the census. Just two years ago, when my committee took evidence on that issue for our census, the public authorities & some of those funded women’s organisations told us that it was not possible to do so. Those organisations also opposed Johann
"Lamont’s amendment 28 to the Forensic Medical Services (Victims of Sexual Offences) (Scotland) Bill, which ensured that rape victims were able to choose the sex, not just the gender, of their medical examiner. Make no mistake—such positions are as ideological as they are absurd
"and they have nothing to do with protecting women.
I am therefore proud to support @JohannLamont's amendments today"
#WomenWontWheesht
#IWD2021
#IAmTheStorm
#BinTheBill
I am therefore proud to support @JohannLamont's amendments today"
#WomenWontWheesht
#IWD2021
#IAmTheStorm
#BinTheBill
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