Imagine Scotland had a high bar to define a thing, say haggis, but England decided to redefine haggis to be anything that identified as haggis (like pasties) but demanded to be allowed into Scotland & for pasties to be labelled haggis, @scottishgreens would be annoyed, right? 1/
Well @MaggieChapman is getting annoyed that @ScottishGreens & @SP_EHRCJ (Maggie is Deputy Convener) want to drop the bar so anyone can be legally defined as female, a level much lower than the rest of the UK, Westminster have noticed & said "wait one cotton picking minute". 2/ twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
So we have Maggie ranting about rights of pasties while screwing over the native haggises. Maggie's joined by big pastie fans @stonewalluk, claiming some imaginary overwhelming pastie mandate (well of course pasties will be happy, but anyone asked haggises how they feel?)
No! We, sorry, the haggises are not happy, not happy at all. Nor are the women @MaggieChapman@Cmacf76. In fact the majority of Scots reject your attempt to allow anyone to legally be called female. #NoToSelfID
If you feel the same way and want to tell all Scottish MSPs you opinion on whether @MaggieChapman gets to allow anyone to legally call themselves female, without any safeguarding, them come along on Wed 21st. Get ready to shout #NoToSelfID. #MacGRC
This fight over women's rights is not going to end on 21st Dec, of course. So if you want to get involved, please get in touch. We've over 20 regional SFN groups across Scotland & can put you in touch with one in your area. DM us your location. 💪 #WomenWontWheesht
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We are at this event, supporting @AshReganMSP's #Unbuyable bill about to go through Stage 1 of the @Scotparl committee process. 99% of sellers of sex are women, 99% buying sex are men @SWCwomen #SWCConference2025
@AshReganMSP has just spoken about the reality of women prostituting their body (this is not Pretty Woman). The voices missing from this discussion or the customer, the men purchasing access to women's bodies. Why is that? Because how can you demand the right to women's bodies.
Now we have @RhodaGrant (@ScottishLabour MSP) talking about how she had tried to bring this legislation before & is now supporting Ash. There will be a backlash, Ash will be attacked but we support this Bill and speak up for the women
While it's easier to believe the women that helped fund a grass roots women's org (@ForWomenScot) are all raving far right religious zealots @BBCScotland, the truth is much scarier. The truth is these women have some, & no, party allegiances, atheist to devout believers. 1/
When you realise that the right to define, & be, a woman belongs to us & that has driven nationwide support, it's not surprising those wanting to deny us those rights want to believe some ridiculous tosh that cases against our own Gov are funded by Putin or rabid evangelicals 2/
It would be painful for the women's right thieves to acknowledge *they* are in the minority, that their constituents think them unscientific ideologues unworthy of a vote. Passionate & informed women have funded these cases themselves, whenever payday allows. 3/
"Police in Glasgow have seen a 41% increase in rapes & 28% increase in sexual assault amid warnings that sex crime in Scotland's biggest city has hit "epidemic" levels", while in Edinburgh @ScottishGreens tried to defund the support services for women. 1/ scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-…
The latest statistics from Glasgow City Council and Police Scotland's Safe Glasgow Partnership scheme show 357 rapes to the end of Q3 2024/25, compared to 254 in the same period in 2023/24. 2/
Cases of domestic abuse have also risen to 192 in the nine months to the end of December 2024, compared to 136 in the same period in 2023-24, while sexual assaults rose from 499 to 639. 3/
"Judges have been warned that it is “extremely inappropriate” to refer to male rapists who say they identify as women by their preferred pronouns." 1/ telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/0…
The guidance from the Judicial Office comes amid growing outrage among campaigners over transgender defendants who are biologically male and have committed sex attacks against women being referred to as “she” in court. 2/
Judges have also been told that they must avoid addressing defendants as the opposite sex in cases involving violent offences such as domestic violence. 3/
Oh we know that the rewriting of Surgeon's history is underway for her memoirs but really, such blatant lies? The 'feminist to her fingertips' is the queen of self-delusion. On Sunday it will be 2 years to the day that her beloved Gender Recognition 1/ theguardian.com/society/2024/d…
Reform Bill passed & she claims there was no "massive public opposition". Yeah, because ignorance of this blasted legislation (now blocked) explains how it got so far, along with an appalling lack of scrutiny. We know because for 18 months before the Bill hit Holyrood we had 2/
stalls on Scottish streets and the public had no idea that @scotgov were bringing in legislation to allow any male over 16 to acquire a certificate to say he was a female, ANY male. There can't be opposition if no-one knows how batshit your plans are. And the inevitable claim 3/
"Children distressed about their gender are pushed onto the Sandyford clinic in Glasgow because the rest of the health service finds their care too hard to handle, a leading NHS manager said" 1/ thetimes.com/article/380670…
Rhoda MacLeod, head of adult services for the Sandyford sexual health clinic, told MSPs that as soon as a child began questioning their gender “everybody goes, ‘Oh, I can’t deal with this. They need to go to the gender service’”.
She described the care of such young patients being dumped on the “too-hard-to-deal-with pile”. MacLeod noted other Scottish health boards had not taken steps to open their own clinics for children with gender issues adding it is “plainly obvious, why not”.