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Susan Dalgety

@DalgetySusan

Feb 23

@ianssmart

🧵I am no lawyer, but @ianssmart is. A damn fine one and former President of Law Society of Scotland. He wrote an article a few days ago which sets out his informed opinion that reform of the GRA is outwith the legal competence of the Scottish parliament ianssmart.blogspot.com

Let me summarise: Under the 2004 GRA Act, a gender recognition certificate means that for all purposes, a person's acquired gender is their new legal sex. A man becomes a woman, legally (and vice versa of course)

As Ian says in his blog, "a woman is a matter of law, someone born a woman, or possessed of a gender recognition under the 2004 Act"

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Susan Dalgety

@DalgetySusan

Feb 22

Thread: Yesterday MP Mhairi Black said in parliament: “People often think that we have male and female, but the truth is that 1-2% of the global population is born intersex, which means they present characteristics of both sexes..."

She is wrong to use the political term "intersex" when describing people with different sexual development (DSD) and to say that they "present with characteristics of both sexes. People with DSD are not "between" sexes they are male or female.

Conditions range from hyopsadias, where the opening of the urethra is not located at the tip of the penis to Turner Syndrome in girls where one of the X chromosomes is missing or partially missing causing a range of medical/development challenges

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Susan Dalgety

@DalgetySusan

Feb 6

Short 🧵

In a piece in New Statesman, journalist Marie Le Conte argues that gender critical feminists have been ‘radicalised’ in a similar way to QAnon believers and other extremists.

Quite apart from the extremely offensive analogy, she - and other women who share her view - completely misunderstand, or deliberately ignore, what gender critical feminists are arguing. Perhaps it will help if we look - yet again - at the root cause of this culture war

Feminism is based on the inarguable fact that women and girls across the world are oppressed because of their biological sex; the form that oppression takes depends on the culture of the society a woman lives in, FGM in Sudan, abortion ban in Texas…

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Susan Dalgety

@DalgetySusan

Jan 16

@thetimesscot

A major children’s charity in Scotland, who vision is that all children should have “an equal chance to flourish” says that children as young as 12 should be allowed to change their legal sex without a period of reflection. See @thetimesscot

Children in Scotland also argue that there is no need for parental consent for a 12-year-old child to change their legal sex

This is beyond reckless.
📌A young person is not deemed mature enough to consent to sexual relationship until they are 16; how can that same child be considered mature enough to change their legal sex at 12.

young.scot/get-informed/n…

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Susan Dalgety

@DalgetySusan

Dec 13, 2021

@SethAbramson

American man @SethAbramson goes on rant against @jk_rowling for daring to speak out against grotesque situation in Scotland where male-bodied person who has used their penis to rape a woman can demand to be considered female

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1470370487998066691?s=20

For the record Mr Abramson, under The Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009 rape is defined as nonconsensual penetration with a penis, so it cannot be committed by someone without male genitalia.

Quite apart from the psychological impact of a female victim being forced to refer to their male-bodied attacker as 'female' during any trial, this distortion of reality damages the accuracy of essential data on sexual assault.

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Susan Dalgety

@DalgetySusan

Dec 10, 2020

Thread: How six words can make a difference.
Later today MSPs will vote on the final wording of the Forensic Medical Services Bill - a good and important bill designed to make the aftermath of rape/sexual assault easier for victims

@JohannLamont

The current wording says women can choose the gender of their examiner, but as gender is NOT a protected characteristic under law, leading feminist and MSP @JohannLamont has tabled a #sixwords amendment changing sex to gender

So far, so straightforward...until Rape Crisis Scotland - set up to support women at their most vulnerable - sent a briefing to MSPs asking them to keep gender. Why?

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