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@Scot_Feminists
Oct 31, 2022 • 10 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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It's Halloween, All Saint's Eve. A fitting time to mark the death of some historical witches, on behalf of the contemporary Scottish Witches 🧙‍♀️
First we have the Forfar Witches: 1/
#WomensWontWheesht
scottish-gatherings.50megs.com/page119.html
Led by the Church of Scotland, even consulting with a 🧙‍♀️ was a crime. Why? We're lovely! 2/ Image
Then we have the Forres 🧙‍♀️ 3/
Sounds delightful. These days they just scream "transphobe" & "TERF" and tweet death and rape threats. So, that's progress. 4/ Image
Then we have Bute 🧙‍♀️
At least they were hung. Scotland must have had a lingering smell of burning female flesh for a couple of hundred years so a bit of a break from that would have been welcome. 5/
In Edinburgh there is the tiniest memorial to all the Scottish women murdered for being different, or clever, or unpopular, or asking about their rights, or just breathing loudly. Over 3800 people were murdered for witchcraft, the vast majority female. 6/
The inscription on the tiny memorial: 7/
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These women have at least been pardoned - how gracious to acknowledge they were murdered and not punished for mystical powers - in part due to the efforts of @ScottishWitches 8/ Image
But in 2022 we see the same name calling, finger pointing, telling us to wheesht, that our concerns are not valid, MSPs are whipped so they can't say "wait a minute, do they have a point...". 9/ Image
Women are always going to be abused verbally or physically but we're not going anywhere, or staying silent. We fight for the underdogs, the vulnerable, the children and equality (the real stuff). Women have been called witches for centuries and you are right to be scared of us 🧙‍♀️ Image

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Sandy Brindley's the CEO of Rape Crisis Scotland & on GMS today she said agreed that a female survivor asking for support by rape crisis should be able to specifiy she gets female support (at 2 hours 17mins) & said this was the case across all centres 1/
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Which may come as a surprise to women paying attention to what has been going on in Scotland in relation to gender identity and what appears to be a blind acceptance in @scotgov-funded charities that if a male calls himself a woman he must be treated as a woman 2/
Sandy's been at the forefront of this push &, even if her hands are technically clean of the decision to recruit a male as CEO of Edinburgh Rape Crisis (a male that counsels female survivors & doesn't tell them he's male), we know that the ideology of "Transwomen are women" 2/
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2nd article in days about LGBT Youth Scotland in Scottish schools. You need to be asking who is wielding influence in *your* child's school. "My daughter was ‘radicalised’ by Scottish LGBT club in school" 1/
#DefundLGBTYS #EducationNotIndoctrination
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Is there any other lobbying group in Scotland allowed such easy access to our children, schools & curriculum as LGBT Youth Scotland (& TIE), to imprint their ideology on prepubescent minds. If you're not furious, you don't understand what's happening 1/
telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/1…
Scottish primary schools are appointing children as “LGBT champions” and are being urged to ask pupils as young as four if they are gay, lesbian or trans, The Telegraph can reveal. 2/
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Today we, & a group of other supporters from far flung places such as Shropshire & Ayr, witnessed @iwontwheesht read a list of factual statements such as humans are unable to change sex & that women don't have penises (unless they've acquired them through nefarious means) 1/
Such is legislation in Scotland 2024, this is a brave act from a women wishing to assert her right to speak factually of issues which affect our rights to discuss our safety, privacy & dignity. We must be able to speak of sex & risks posed by males #HumzasHateCrime 2/
We, & she, have no idea if this video will be reported to @police_scotland as a "stirring up" #HateCrime. In the meantime, we hope you all take the opportunity to speak factually & not be silenced by this misjudged law. We cannot allow women's rights to be undermined 💚🤍💜 3/
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"Scotland’s top doctor has been urged to scrap a policy that allows transgender patients to change their sex on medical records, amid claims the policy poses a
risk to their health" 1/
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by ordering a review of data records that “deny biology". In the Scottish NHS, trans people can change their CHI number – a 10 digit code given to every patient - 2/
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self-declared gender identity, rather than biological sex. While there are now policies to ensure these patients are still called for relevant cancer screening programmes, such as cervical or breast checks for
trans men (females) 3/
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The Scottish Feminist Network is quoted in this article today, about recently updated National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland. We'll give you a bit of background info so you can appreciate our concerns as the chances are this guidance may affect your children. 1/
The 2023 guidance is here, with a very helpful table of all elements that had changed or been added since 2021. One paragraph that was new, under the section on under-age sexual activity, stated an intention not to immediately criminalise sex offences: 2/
gov.scot/binaries/conte…
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While we might normally interpret this is a reasonably flexible intention not to rush to criminalise sex offences committed by children (mainly males upon females), and focus on consent, recent events in Scottish courtrooms have worried us 3/
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