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Jan 28

@EHRC

This letter from LGBT Youth in response to @EHRC is one of the most illogical and hyper emotive to date (which is saying something!).

It stresses their "hurt and anger". If that were grounds policy, women would have much better protections by now!
lgbtyouth.org.uk/news/2022/tran…

@ShonaRobison

Funded groups using emotional blackmail in letters to a minister @ShonaRobison is cheapening the conversation.
"The letter frankly hurt and angered us. After taking time to assess and manage our emotions, we have compiled our thoughts and feelings into this document."

It appears LGBT Youth have little notion how current process works. Their contention that the process is "deeply pathologising, requiring complete strangers...to hyper-analyse every aspect of our self and identity." is challenged by those who have gone through it

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For Women Scotland

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Jan 28

"Given the respect the EHRC enjoys within the political and legal establishment across the country, one might have expected Scottish ministers to consider this thoughtful contribution to their consultation seriously. They haven’t, though." telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/2…

"Tim Hopkins, director of the Equality Network, chose to play the nationalists’ favourite card by dismissing the EHRC as a lackey of the hated Westminster government: “We do not need UK government appointees telling us in Scotland how to legislate in devolved areas.”"

"No doubt Mr Hopkins would have been just as outraged if the EHRC had intervened to support the Scottish Government’s legislative timetable."

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Jan 27

@ScotGovFM

.@ScotGovFM digging in her heels and, effectively, saying that no organisation should ever change tack in the face of overwhelming evidence as @EHRC has done.

We note the Children's Commissioner has also changed opinion on the age a GRC should be obtained.

https://twitter.com/zeebeving/status/1486686203235688449

@scotgov

No doubt, this is the line by which @scotgov will also seek to ignore and discredit them.

Intransigence is a poor way to make policy and we have little faith in a process which involves the FM telling experts that they are wrong and misguided.

@theSNP

It is quite clear that proposals made by @theSNP DO substantially change the GRA. Not least, because they open up the qualification criteria to a whole new cohort of people. They have NEVER explained why people without dysphoria need a GRC or, indeed, why these people are trans.

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For Women Scotland

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Jan 27

@MaggieChapman

After this intemperate interview, in which @MaggieChapman was angry & disparaging about role of @EHRC & called those with concerns "transphobes", we believe she should step down from @SP_EHRCJ. We place no faith in fair, unbiased scrutiny while she remains

Certainly, we do not believe that appearing in front of a committee of which she is co-convener would be safe for women who only want a reasoned conversation about genuinely held concerns. The process would be unpleasant and unfruitful for all concerned.

@JohnMasonMSP

Yesterday, she claimed a question on the business bulletin was an "anti-trans dog whistle", thereby accusing not only @JohnMasonMSP of bigotry but the @ScotParl who saw no issue with him raising the issue of males in the female estate.

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For Women Scotland

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Jan 27

@EHRC

Maggie Chapman on #r4today alleging the @EHRC is compromised and dreaming opinion a fact.

She calls opponents transphobes and accuses people of misinformation. This is no way to improve the conversation!

*deeming (phone playing up!)

@SP_EHRCJ

Chapman is the co-convener of @SP_EHRCJ. Considering her "perfomance" and her disgraceful smears on those with other opinions, we have no faith that any committee process can now be far or balanced. Indeed, considering her allegations, we would be fearful of appearing before her.

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Jan 26

"...the EHRC said it now believed that the “established legal concept of sex”, coupled with protections against discrimination for transgender people, struck the “correct balanced legal framework” that “protects everyone”."
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…

"It backed fears, repeatedly dismissed by SNP ministers and pro-trans lobby groups, that the “potential consequences” of the changes would impact on fields such as sport and criminal justice, as well as “measures to address barriers facing women”."

"Susan Smith, a director of the For Women Scotland group, said: “We are delighted that the EHRC agrees that the views of so many women are, after all, valid."

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