Does a vibrator count as pelvic exercise? @GussieGrips Do orgasms help your pelvic floor. THEY HELP MORE THAN YOUR PELVIC FLOOR. You need cheering up. #FVFWomensFestival @GussieGrips No science to back it up for sure. But sports science principles? Doing something better than nothing! Do a single person study and see how you crack on #FVFWomensFestival

Q. for @LucyHunterB are the government holding off strengthening the equality act because of S35.

I think people invest too much in the government having a strategic approach. #FVFWomensFestival @LucyHunterB I don't think there was a great strategic plan, I don't think they want to amend the equality act. The EHRC have said where we are is fine, small numbers. #FVFWomensFestival

With the conversion bill there will be casualties @MagiGibson. Have to try and get more input to it. As a former teacher and as a parent I took my duties very seriously & so did the Scot education system #FVFWomensFestival @MagiGibson Scot Education system has slipped. You need to have a say, a full say on what happens to your child. Parents in England are taking children out of the schools they're in so the schools won't damage them #FVFWomensFestival

Q. for Susan Smith @ForWomenScot. Is the press complicit? the Scotsman defamed JK Rowling. This week NS finally asked the tough questions and flip-flopped. #FVFWomensFestival @ForWomenScot Once you get down to basics its indefensible. Some print media has been good but very little forensic examination on the TV and a lot of people get their news from TV #FVFWomensFestival

Is repealing the GRA the only way to stop this @marstrina No. Men have been trying to simulate women for a very long time, you won't end that. #FVFWomensFestival @marstrina To overturn a law has to sue. GRA: would be very difficult to conceive of a test case. It was brought in by a fudge. It was to prevent issues with marriage, which is technically made redundant by marriage equality but 20 years is a lot of water under the bridge #FVFWomensFestival

Q for @MagiGibson and @Gillian_Philip are you aware pre-school books are pushing GI?

Magi. Yes, I find this very troubling. Should be about incl. but don't need to intro children to these notions. Why are we talking to children about these notions? #FVFWomensFestival @MagiGibson @Gillian_Philip Children can grow up and play with their pals without us getting at them with all this stuff.

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Final speaker today is @GussieGrips on "how I was radicalised by Nicola sturgeon" #FVFWomensFestival @GussieGrips I peaked a long time ago I work in women health and I have been exposed to medical misogyny for 30 years. They've been trying to do something about it but it's been 2000 years and it takes a while #FVFWomensFestival

Hi there, we're back with @LucyHunterB talking about the Scottish Parliament & women. What the GRR Bill has taught us

#FVFWomensFestival @LucyHunterB Going to look back over the last year & want to start a conversation. #FVFWomensFestival

Susan Smith from @ForWomenScot now giving an update on the bill and its effect on women. #FVFWomensFestival @ForWomenScot What has happened since the bill has passed is unprecedented - and many of that is thanks to the people here today #FVFWomensFestival

Magi and Gillian both touched on we need to be really clear about definitions. Language matters. Young people believe trans means the same as same sex attraction #FVFWomensFestival They think being gay, being a butch lesbian etc. is the same as being trans #FVFWomensFestival

We've now got @DalgetySusan with Gender reform, is compromise possible? #FVFWomensFestival @DalgetySusan Talk today is inspired by the great Joanne Lomont. Like Anas Sarwar, but he has let every woman and girl in Scotland down #FVFWomensFestival

Now @Gillian_Philip is talking about TERFing in publiching #FVFWomensFestival @Gillian_Philip Used to be a childrens author and now a truck driver, truck drivers much less sexist. They'll help if she struggles with a pallet, but they don't care that she's a woman. #FVFWomensFestival

Welcome back to #FVFWomensFestival with @marstrina who will be giving a potted history of feminism! @marstrina Marina: Scottish feminism debut! Feminism comes in waves like hot flushes! Feminism is the largest and most radical movement in the world. #FVFWomensFestival

Now @MagiGibson: One of the two cancelled women poets in Scotland since 2015 for speaking against self-ID #FVFWomensFestival @MagiGibson Now removed from Scottish Book Trust for removing to sign up for new code of conduct has been on register for over 30 years. #FVFWomensFestival

Now speaking @PankhurstEM (trigger warning): Josie Jackson specialised in teen and barely legal "punched in face, get ripped, inside come out of you, viewed as object" #FVFWomensFestival @PankhurstEM Women in this industry experience violence and degradation and this is the point. It's not a fantasy, this is a reality for these girls #FVFWomensFestival

We now have @MaraMatria speaking #FVFWomensFestival @MaraMatria What has changed in the last year - Elaine Miller has proved that journalists don't know what a vulva is!

@jane_mclenachan now speaking! #FVFWomensFestival @jane_mclenachan Many of you will be familiar with social care and social work fields but by way of a quick reference to the regulatory context across the UK we're governed by the social service council but what we know #FVFWomensFestival

First speaker @mickbrick54 now speaking! #FVFWomensFestival @mickbrick54 Last year was fearful of the year ahead last year, telling the truth in this country is a revolutionary act. We continue to tell the trust. #FVFWomensFestival

In honour of #IWD2022 we’re sharing the videos from Alloa Women’s Festival, a day of #WarriorWomen. Starting with our very own Eva 💜🤍💚 Eva Comrie, Alloa Women's Festival via @YouTube And here’s @WeirAlison drawing on her wealth of knowledge on women’s sport. #IWD2022 #WarriorWomen