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Feb 15 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
🧵It is vital that @theSNP reacts to the resignation of #NicolaSturgeon in a way that is beneficial to the country and the cause of independence. Our party needs a leadership election that is about policies and not personalities. 1/3
We must restore the SNP’s tradition of internal party democracy, open respectful debate and intellectual rigour and we must also put the welfare of everyone living in Scotland back at the heart of our endeavours. 2/3
There are some huge challenges facing our country and our government. There is also a need for reform and healing within our party. I’m looking forward to playing my role in this process. 3/3

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Feb 16
Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation means @theSNP will have its 1st leadership election for nearly 20 years.This could be a turning point for the independence movement but only if we honestly appraise where things have gone wrong & radically reset our approach 1/16
We must recognise that the answers are not to be found in one person. Successful leaders build teams, and it is for the next leader and her team to take us forward together. It’s a tall order but it’s doable. 2/16
What went wrong with the GRR Bill is a microcosm of everything that has been wrong with our party’s approach in the last few years.  An ill thought through policy that was never debated on the floor of conference, 3/16
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Dec 19, 2022
🧵 Watching this live. Noteworthy that @victor_madrigal has backed off the assertion that international human rights law mandates a system of self-identification of gender. What it mandates is a system of gender recognition.
What he seems to be focusing on is the need not to discriminate against trans people about which I hope we can all agree. However the bill is not confined to trans people it allows anyone to identify as the opposite sex with next to no safeguards.
Also excellent to hear him say that he respects the difference between his mandate and that of @UNSRVAW & that her mandate on violence against women & girls must be respected.
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Dec 16, 2022
🧵This is not a legal opinion on the domestic law of Scotland. The case law of the ECHR does not mandate self identification. The system of gender recognition we currently have is within the margin of appreciation allowed by the court 1/11
In particular the ECHR has recognised that “stringent” procedures aimed at verifying the underlying motivation for a change of legal identity are justified see page 22 of echr.coe.int/Documents/Guid…. 2/11
This “legal opinion’ contains no analysis of the potential conflict between the proposed system of self identification and the Equality Act and, in particular, of how self ID could undermine the sex based rights of women & same sex attracted people. 3/11
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Oct 11, 2022
🧵 I’m at the Supreme Court today for #Indyref2 case. If the UK Govt had any respect at all for Scottish democracy, this court hearing wouldn’t be necessary.
At the 2021 scottish election the scot gov was elected on a manifesto commitment to hold a second indyref. Last time that happened 10 years ago in 2011 the UK govt respected that mandate & entered into an agreement to put beyond doubt the legality of indyref
That’s the established constitutional precedent of the right thing to do in these circumstances. That’s what they shd do now. That they won’t = denial of democracy and its unconstitutional.
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Jul 27, 2022
🧵Yesterday another man appeared in court charged with threatening me on account of my belief that #SexMatters. I want to be very clear that every time someone in a position of power wrongly describes feminists or LGB people like me as transphobic simply 1/4
because we don’t share their belief in gender identity theory they risk inciting the sort of abuse & threats that I and others suffer from self styled “Trans rights activists” who in truth are nothing of the sort. 2/4
Instead, they are just good old fashioned misogynists & lesbophobes who are being encouraged & enabled by those who ought to know better. I don’t think enough attention is being paid to this problem. It needs to be called out by 3/4
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Jun 11, 2022
This article was briefly amended to include @ALLIANCELGB side of the story but I can’t see it any more. Some might say that such hysterical anger at LGB people organising to protect their right to be same sex attracted is the very definition of #homophobia
Here’s what @ALLIANCELGB said “LGB Alliance is a registered charity whose goals are to promote equality and human rights for LGB people. All the publicly funded LGBTQIA+ groups now focus on the importance of gender identity,
saying that feelings of gender identity should supersede anything to do with biological sex. That is why we need our own organisation and services. LGB Alliance receives messages from young LGB people
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