@GlasgowPam: "Do you think think that, those people, those bad actors and I agree there will be some people who want to harm women, do you think that they feel they need a gender recognition certificate to do it?"
There is a reason why Gender Critical activists have U turned by saying the Scottish Parliament's legislative process is a sham and attacking staff members.
Naomi Cunningham of @SexMattersOrg: "And there is nothing in the proposed legislation that would prevent erotic cross dressers to apply for a gender recognition certificate."
Ah yes those cross dressers that famously have a kink for forms and bureaucracy.
@MaggieChapman to Naomi Cunningham on needing dysphoria to be trans: "In the same way I wouldn't want to prescribe what being a woman has to be, you have to look/dress/act a certain way, that's sexism I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that to trans people either."
@MaggieChapman: "It's (current process) intrusive and surely trans people deserve privacy as well?"
Naomi Cunningham: "...It is privacy with quite serious consequences. For example it creates an opportunity for what we at @SexMattersOrg have referred to as identity laundering."
If I had a pound for every time a gender critical activist adequately described what identity laundering is to me I'd no money.
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I've met a lot of fantastic journalists from @PinkNews but it's become apparent that it's leadership is mistreating staff and is more interested on ad revenue rather than shining a light on injustice. I'd advise against giving them lines/comments/interacting with their site.
@D_Libris@JeremyRBalfour Kenneth Gibson speaks to John Masons bill about women prisons and claims there was a study that suggests trans women keep their natural criminal habits far after transition
He claims men are claiming to be women to be transferred to an estate to do easier time or to target women
"If a fox identified as a chicken would you put it in a hen house? Of course not."
- Kenneth Gibson
Mercedes Villalba intervenes to say that Kenneth Gibson is bordering on hate speech.
I can't take pictures of the public gallery but it's entirely empty except from 20 gender critical activists sitting on the chambers left hand side and then a small group of trans people and allies.
The overwhelming majority of the public gallery is empty.
Why is most of the gallery empty? It's because the Scottish Feminist Network found a flaw in The Scottish Parliament's ticketing system allowing them to book most of the seats on the public gallery and leave them empty.
For the past year the organising group between Scottish Feminist Network and other gender critical groups has been compromised. These screenshots from this are from these organising groups.
TW transphobia, anti choice rhetoric, Club Q shooting jokes and more.
Smaller gender critical activists details have been anonymised, however people in organising roles and leadership positions have not been censored.
Scottish Feminist Network & For Women Scotland are due to be holding a demo outside of Holyrood on the 21st of Dec to oppose the GRA reforms. But before then lets have a look at these groups and their members actually stand for.
🚨To all non-Scottish trans people & trans allies in the UK🚨
The Scottish Parliament votes on the Gender Recognition Reform Bill in less than 5 days. How can you help? Let me be blunt.
You need to email the Scottish Labour party.
scotland@labour.org.uk
Let me explain.
The bill itself is a bill coming from a cooperation agreement between the SNP and Greens. I'm relatively relaxed about the Lib Dems.
Gender Critical activists have most but not all of the Scottish Conservatives votes, the MSPs who rebelled previously and some surprises probably.
Recently Gender Critical Activists have been targeting Scottish Labour more than any other party. They do this knowing that their votes can dilute the bill or stop it entirely.
And this is where you come in, especially if you are a member of the Labour party or supporter.