Thread by @ShahrarAli

One of the most striking features of name-calling & bullying are the number of things that would need to have been false to make them true. That a lifelong campaigner against discrimination suddenly became a bigot overnight or that they never really were good. #RealityCheck

Or that people, so many of them, really are that hateful, spiteful & deceitful as their accusers would allege. We must say NO! to these smears, their perpetrators & enablers who damage the very causes they claim to represent.

We must all, in wherever small way we can, find courage to do this. Else we may just wake up one morning to find we don't know what to believe or what to stand up for. If we were to lose our sense of justice that would be some loss.

I believe - although he didn't quite put it like this - that Andy Wightman couldn't quite live with himself for betraying his conscience in voting against amendment to allow rape victim right to same-sex examiner. It wouldn't have been transphobic to have voted for amendment.

Wightman is a good man with a track record to show for it. He didn't turn transphobic overnight nor is he.

All that is necessary for triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing. Lies are evil.

Be kind. #RealityCheck

Amendment to Forensic Medical Services (Victims of Sexual Offences) (Scotland) Bill, replacing word “gender” with “sex” so a sexual assault victim could choose same-sex examiner, did pass:

✅ by 113 votes to 9
👏 Basic human dignity

Let's be on right side of that historic vote.