Short 🧵I have met online and IRL some of the kindest, most empathetic, thoughtful women through the campaign to protect women’s sex-based rights. For a @scotgov minister to suggest they are akin to racists and anti-semites is reprehensible 
The minister has blocked me so I can’t address her directly, however I hope the FM @NicolaSturgeon will remind her of her duty to the electorate. As a minister, Slater must show respect for all, not just those people she chooses to side with. See point 1 of ministerial code
Slater also accused women’s groups of being funded by US hard-right groups. A claim that has no basis and is made in a deliberate effort to defame legitimate campaigners. Has she read the 7 principles of public life that underpins the ministerial code? Honesty is fundamental
I hold out no hope that Slater will apologise for her defamatory remarks, but I hope @NicolaSturgeon will on her behalf. If she doesn’t, she sends a clear signal to the women of Scotland that she, like her junior minister, believes the majority of us are bigots #RespectMyX
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