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Nov 8 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
The Scottish Feminist Network would like to wish @ForWomenScot very good luck in Court tomorrow. They've a judicial review of wording Scottish Government added as a result of the last judicial review @ForWomenScot took @scotgov to court for
#DeedsNotWords
forwomen.scot/18/07/2022/jud…
@ForWomenScot won last time & the ruling said that no-one can redefine "woman" in law away from that defined in the Equality Act. This time they are challenging whether a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) can change a person's sex in ALL respects (@scotgov says yes!) 2/
This case is directly relevant to legislation currently making its way through the Scottish Parliament, the Gender Recognition Reform Bill. The GRR Bill would allow a male to acquire a GRC on their say so & expect to be treated as female in law in ALL respects 3/
@ForWomenScot believe this is not what was intended by the Equality Act and so are going to court tomorrow to challenge @scotgov. Please do wish them well as these JRs are expensive & stressful & are a huge financial burden. They'd appreciate your support 💜🤍💚 4/
#DeedsNotWords

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Nov 9
Today we watched the 1st day's proceedings today of @ForWomenScot taking @scotgov to court. The topic is really very niche but will impact us all if the Judge rules for @scotgov (we won't know the outcome for at least a month or 2) so let's share what we learned 1/
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Nov 8
Another scotgov-funded charity dictating that we must believe in order to benefit from their benevolence. And we must believe that there are more than 2 sexes, that anyone can change sex and you must use the language of the compelled, or else!
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Nov 5
As we may have mentioned just a few times there's a Bill going through Scottish Parliament that will allow anyone from age of 16 to change the sex on their birth certificate. It will require no medical diagnosis (unlike rest of UK) so it's referred to as "Self ID" 1/
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#NoToSelfID
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Nov 2
Scotland's in a weird place right now. We have the case of a v busy man, Alan (with previous convictions) who has appeared in court in Dundee & on the same day had charges against him as a man and different charges against him as a "woman", Alannah 1/
thescottishsun.co.uk/news/9701112/f…
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Referred to as she in the court (crimes almost certainly recorded as female crimes)
The same day remember, today this happened. /3
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Oct 31
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/
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Led by the Church of Scotland, even consulting with a 🧙‍♀️ was a crime. Why? We're lovely! 2/ Image
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Oct 27
Final one for stage 1 (1 of 3) of the Gender Recognition Reform Bill
#NoToSelfID
Vote by party #NoToSelfID
Votes by @scottishgreens
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