Thread by @pickle_bee

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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.

Last week, Scottish Feminist Network member Lisa Keogh said she was very disappointed that she lost her case against Abertay University - she claimed she was discriminated against for her Gender Critical beliefs.

In sueing her University Lisa Keogh has had support from members of the Scottish Feminist Network and For Women Scotland. She is also part of the anti-abortion faction within the GC movement. Debates around a woman's right to choose happened more than you would expect.

Although Lisa’s view were challenged, the group continued to support Lisa and anti-choice activists, despite Lisa calling women who have abortions murderers. When pressed even further, Lisa suggested she was being discriminated within the group due to her anti-abortion beliefs.

Abortion rights was such a debated issue is because there were 2 protests at the US Consulate due to the anticipated repeal of Roe v Wade. The first one was organised by myself and another trans woman, followed by a second protest organised by the same people & US women

The first protest clashed with a gender critical event where anti-trans campaigners gathered to have lunch at Glasgow Green rather than come to fight for abortion rights.

https://twitter.com/pickle_bee/status/1522945977946148865?s=20&t=VEQfJ3aOo88NYs0q7I4xPw

In the lead-up to the second protest, the group of trans allies who had infiltrated the organising groups reached out to me. The Scottish Feminists weren’t happy that they had been highlighted as people who cared about lunch more than abortion-related rights so they came along...

to the second protest to heckle trans-inclusive abortion rights campaigners.

https://twitter.com/pickle_bee/status/1525498442847596544?s=20&t=VEQfJ3aOo88NYs0q7I4xPw

For the avoidance of doubt here is confirmation from Obsolesence that this group is for organising Scottish Feminist Network’s activities and to link them up with members from groups like For Women Scotland, Safeguard Our Schools Scotland, Parent Scotland and others.

I was made aware of screenshots like these & that the Scottish Feminist Network were becoming obsessed about optics rather than actively being pro-choice. But this isn’t the worst. Below the Scottish Feminist Network’s branches making jokes at the expense of murdered LGBT+ people

Here is confirmation that this group is an official branch and part of the Scottish Feminist Network.

The split mentioned seems to be with a competing faux feminist/gender critical group called the Womens Right’s Network. They don’t get along at all.

Now let’s move onto another topic.

What’s the deal with the public galleries at the Scottish Parliament’s Equality Committee meetings?

Why was it so hard to get a ticket to sit in the public gallery? Why was it always sold out?

If that really was the case then why were there plenty of empty seats? Why was the audience mostly somewhat well known gender-critical activists? Where were all the trans people and trans allies?

It’s because the Scottish Feminst Network exploited the Scottish Parliament’s Ticket system to stop trans allies but more importantly trans people being able to attend meetings about the future of our own lives.

@ironic_sparkles guessed correctly.

In fact, audience optics mattered a lot to Scottish Feminist Network. Earlier this year we saw 2 activists from a group called Scottish Feminists stage a protest inside the Scottish Parliament itself to delay the gender recognition reforms.

This action was supposed to be much bigger. This photo was taken shortly after they were refused entry into the Scottish Parliament. I know this because I was stuck behind them in the queue at Holyrood’s security gate & because the group of allies knew about this stunt in advance

Scottish Feminist Network members claimed they were strip searched by Parliament Security. Witnesses at Parliament security like myself can tell you that’s a lie.

While the Scottish Parliament security staff are normally relaxed that day they were more strict and were asking every member of the public if they were wearing political messaging underneath because they were tipped off that this protest would be happening in advance.

These shirts that the Scottish Femininnst network were kindly donated by anti-feminist fascist Kellie Jay Keen aka Posie Parker and eventually the design was worn by JK Rowling herself. More about that in this thread:

https://twitter.com/pickle_bee/status/1578438133552939008

The network is also known for its protests outside SNP Party conferences with support from Joanna Cherry. Last conference, For Women Scotland asked the group to lay off the dinosaurs & instead just wear the Posie Parker shirts. I cannot express how much drama happened over this

Although dinosaur moments like this are really funny, it’s important to remember that these people have an incredibly unhealthy obsession. And are keen to monitoring activists.

They do this to mass report and take platforms away from trans people and allies.

Here they outright admit that they collect data on not just trans people but trans allies that campaign for equality too.

If you are an activist for trans equality in Scotland it is very likely that For Women Scotland are collecting data on you too.

So far we have focused on mostly people in organising roles but I also think it’s important to look at how generally radicalised some people are in this movement.

They want to see politicians be charged for allowing Scotland to be a slightly more inclusive place. People who can’t see a rainbow anymore without getting upset and those who would rather pay a grand than fill out a census accurately.

Scottish Feminist Network’s biggest current project is the Scottish Labour Party. In the past they have outright pretended to be party members and recently broke into the Scottish Labour Party HQ.

There's other things I can’t share presently but other may decide to share more in the future. For example I can barely talk to you about Marion Millar, like how For Women Scotland & the Scottish Feminist Network really want you to forget she had a leadership role in the movement

*New info!!!*

Staff from Parliament have got in touch with me, the Scottish Feminist Network are still exploiting the Scottish Parliaments ticketing system for stage 3. They warn me that they are likely to disrupt the legislative process again & the Tories are helping them do it

Gender critical bonus round.

https://twitter.com/pickle_bee/status/1605166425773002753?t=kUF7w3FdKquH-Hq-ohWcTA&s=19