So many people have convinced themselves they haven't been part of enabling this abuse of women because they just liked some tweets, just signed one letter, just shared some lies, just parroted some slogans, just backed one woman's abuser/ hounder over his target. 1/

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1785281074584498515

One of the final friends I lost over this in 2020 lambasted me for speaking to them privately about why the hell they were joining in the online abuse of other women in this battle, when they not only shared my views but were a supposed best friend & had supported me prior. 2/

🧵No, what the judgment confirms beyond doubt is that our govt in Scotland lied to us through their teeth for years, causing an intense and appalling cultural schism that has led to enormous harm. Women have been proven 'valid' in our concerns time and time again. Enough. 1/

https://twitter.com/HumzaYousaf/status/1733114872827613622

The process of this Bill has been a travesty of democracy. Reckless legislators, riddled with self-interest and in hock to lobby groups, voted against amendment after amendment that might have taken the sting out of unfettered self-ID. Ludicrously, @ScottishLabour voted FOR 2/

Short 🧵

I thought that was pretty good. (That being #GenderWars)

Obvs everyone would have wanted more time for their partic angle, but let's face it, there's about four hundred different docs that could be made on this.

And probs will be. 1/ I was personally struck by the final comment of @bindelj about how, when you get called 'TERF' that's all you are allowed to be. Your entire history of good things wiped out. I've had that the last few years and it *does* hurt. Like your entire memories are scuffed 2/

🧵Three years ago, I was forced to write an extensive essay outlining the harassment I was receiving in Scotland's literary sector. I had hoped I might write this, and then be left alone. Of course, that hasn't happened 1/

thedarkhorsemagazine.com/anatomy-of-a-h… Instead, this nonsense has followed me everywhere. I have had my work with young people targeted; I have other poets - even supportive ones - terrifed of working with me in case the leaders of my hounding target them too. I have had 'friends' cease contact, terrified 2/

🧵I've spent most of today feeling powerless, unsure what to do. So I've drawn up a To Do List to try to tour This Script again & am editing a short story inspired by my late Gran, who was a survivor of decades of domestic violence & coercive control. I am so SICK of this... 1/ I am so tired of this violent, oppressive movement, twisting women's words, punching peace in the chest, inventing monsters in a nightmare land of their own making. Justifying violence with fragile thuggish arguments. Ruining women's lives. Inventing harms via making 2/