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@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?"

Naomi Cunningham of @SexMattersOrg: "... No"

#GRAReforms
@Emma_Roddick: "Can I just clarify then, trying to pin down what you said, do you believe a 16 year old can be trans?"

Naomi Cunningham of @SexMattersOrg: "... I certainly believe that a 16 year old can suffer gender dysphoria. That's clearly the case."

@Emma_Roddick: "Okay."
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.

It's because they are losing.

lbc.co.uk/news/holyrood-…
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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Dec 22, 2022
🚨 Final thread on the Gender Recognition Reforms 🚨

You can watch live over on:
scottishparliament.tv

We are about to go onto First Ministers Questions, If trans rights come up I'll live tweet it below.

It will take 45mins and then we are onto the final GRR debate & vote.
Question 1 Douglas Ross

He asks about the Tory amendments that would ban offenders from having a GRC. It failed by one vote.

Why did the First Minister vote for this?
Nicola Sturgeon said she reflected on the evidence and didn't see the Tory amendment as appropriate.

Her argument is a man does not need a GRC to hurt women and it doesn't empower them either.

She highlights the risk based approach amendments that passed.
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Dec 20, 2022
The debating chamber in the Scottish Parliament is starting to fill up with MSPs. We are due to start the final debate on amendments any moment now.

This debate is likely to last 6 or more hours and you can watch it live on:

scottishparliament.tv
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.

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Dec 19, 2022
🚨Mega Thread🚨

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.
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Dec 17, 2022
🚨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.
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Oct 7, 2022
A thread about Kellie-Jay Keen, JK Rowling & scabs.

Yesterday, For Women Scotland held a demo against the gender recognition reforms at the Scottish Parliament.

The biggest moment comes from JK Rowling expressing solidarity with an interesting shirt choice. JK Rowling tweet: I stand i...
This is a more clear version of the top JK Rowling wore. It says "Nicola Sturgeon destroyer of womens rights" in a dictionary style.

Further down it says "SCAB" an insult used in the trade union movement but in this case suggesting Sturgeon is a traitor to her own sex class. ImageImage
But this isn't the first time we have seen this shirt. Earlier this year we saw 2 activists from a group called Scottish Feminists staged a protest inside the Scottish Parliament itself to delay the gender recognition reforms.

#NoDebate Daily Record headline that ...
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