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Dec 20 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Scottish parliament just voted 59 to 64 against an amendment that would have prevented registered sex offenders from being able to #SelfID under the proposed #GRRBill.

No democratic mandate whatsoever for any of this...

Shouts of *shame on all of you* from the gallery! 💪
"TherEs nO conNNecTioN beTweEn the TwaNs C0mUniTY aNd $eX oFfendErs!" we hear, over and over again, ignoring the anecdotes and evidence to the contrary, with varying degrees of credulity.

Why vote to make sure they can get a GRC then? WHY?

#NoToSelfID
#RepealTheGRA
This person has a GRC
This person is a sex offender
This person is not alone in that joint status.

Make it make sense!
BTW if anyone is looking for the link to view: scottishparliament.tv/meeting/meetin…

Session is *STILL* suspended, from the last words stated it appeared they were going to clear the whole public gallery due to the hecklers.

It's been 20 minutes...
Here's the outcome of the vote and the heckling that followed it:

facebook.com/watch/?v=86285…
👈Bill as proposed (who can apply)
Amendment that was voted down 👉

Links in next tweet...
parliament.scot/-/media/files/…

parliament.scot/-/media/files/…
Session has *still* not resumed?? I look forward to hearing from those present WTF is going on right now and hope everyone there is safe, well, feeling empowered and rightfully raging!

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Dec 20
Listen to what @FergusEwingSNP asks of @ShonaRobison here:

scottishparliament.tv/meeting/meetin…

Listen to her reply.

This is, to the *very best* of my knowledge, the BBC poll she is talking about 👇
Shona Robinson: "I could point to the BBC poll conducted earlier this year, that showed support for this bill - particularly among women, actually - and *SUPPORT FOR REDUCING THE AGE TO 16*..."

It was 53% vs 31% AGAINST lowering the age limit.

Liar.

#TransFacts
#NoToSelfID
Tonight during the #GRRBill debate, and prior to voting for the relevant amendments, @ShonaRobison told Holyrood that this BBC poll showed Scots *support* lowering the minimum age of applicants from 18 to 16 👇

Can you spot the problem?
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Dec 20
[🧵] Absolutely shameful #misogyny on clear display from Dr James Barrett. This man is as elite and respected as it is possible to be within the UK "gender medicine" establishment. @TaviAndPort
👆In a 2009 report, Barrett denigrated women prisoners who may object to the presence in their estate of a man convicted of killing his partner. This prisoner(AB) hid the corpse for 3 weeks.

5 days after release AB committed a violent attempted rape of a woman, which /
/ only stopped because of erectile dysfunction.

The parole board had 2 years prior identified risk factors of:

"anger and frustration..., thinking patterns and attitudes relating to violence and weapons, sex offending... and the risk to life and limb.." Para. 6. paraphrased
/
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Dec 19
[🧵] Since #TransWomenAreConMen is trending, here's a relevant anecdote that I found while researching for a video.

In this court case from 2018, an applicant for a gender recognition certificate appealed against the panel's multiple decisions to reject their application.👇
bailii.org/cgi-bin/format…

The whole thing makes *VERY* informative and enraging reading, but here are some highlights.... /
/ The applicant, Jay, was a trans identifying male prisoner, divorced from his third marriage, who had been convicted of "obtaining explosives with *intent to endanger life*" 😬😬😬

"Who's life?" seems like a pertinent question? Sadly I don't have that info.... / Image
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Dec 18
Thanks for bringing this up! It's a nice excuse to vent a thought I was having earlier [THREAD].

Here's the enormous difference: "Water is wet" is a truth that is experiencing no meaningful pushback whatsoever. / Image
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Nobody is being prevented from saying it.
No movement exists based around disbelieving it.
No university anywhere in the world has a "Water is dry" department.
Governments / policymakers etc don't appear to have taken any position on water's wetness or dryness.
/
/
Wish I could say the same about "trans".

You wanna see some consistency?
Get a "water is dry" law into the statue book.
Put it in schools curriculums.
Create a branch of academia founded around the precept "liquid is a social construct".
/
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Nov 25
Wow. Serious questions for @MedicalBristol as to why one of your lecturers has given this presentation, riven with demonstrable falsehoods, vague notions asserted as fact and flat out activist propaganda. 🧵
Hartland went on to characterise the large number of as yet unseen questions that the presentation generated as transphobic and hateful, and posted an image of his own hand with visible nail indentations, claiming he´d had no choice but to do that to himself... to remain calm?
A clue as to why Hartland reacted this way to criticism lies in this 2020 paper about race within medical education and "white fragility" which was co-authored by Hartland and a 4th year student (Eva Larkai):
bjgpopen.org/content/4/5/BJ…
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Sep 17
WTF is this horse****?

Video is from tiktok with two dead hashtags overlaid on top plus a miss leading flyer with the wrong location on it?

Posted by 3 follower account?

Source below...
Original: tiktok.com/@chefdave11/vi…
"Chefdave11"'s most recent tiktok is about the lads going down the "titty bar"... que feminist... 😱

tiktok.com/@chefdave11/vi…
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