Thank you to all MSPs who took part in my debate on safe and fair sport for women and girls 🙏
Olympian Sharron Davies backed my debate and shared why we MUST protect the women's category in sport.
Listen to her powerful words 🔊👇
@sharrond62
#SaveWomensSports
UN Special Rapporteur Reem Alsalem has produced a pivotal report on violence against women and girls in sport. It's a must-read.
To protect safety and fairness in women's sport, we MUST protect the women's category in sport.
@UNSRVAW
#SaveWomensSports
John Swinney's SNP has wasted millions on the unwanted and unworkable National Care Service.
Meanwhile, social care is collapsing. Care homes are closing.
@RussellFindlay1
is spot on. This is classic SNP, wasting time and money and neglecting what people really need.
#FMQs
This is appalling. Last week, Chief Constable Jo Farrell said Police Scotland would never record a male rapist as female.
But a dossier from 2023 shows the force considered recording Isla Bryon as FEMALE on the sex offenders register.
More serious questions for the force 👇
💥EXCLUSIVE: Police Scotland considered recording notorious double rapist Isla Bryson as a female on the sex offenders register, according to leaked document obtained by
@SkyNews
.
✍️ Full story…
It is so disappointing to see this from Maggie Chapman when the debate was respectful and constructive.
When it comes to safety and fairness for women and girls, I won't back down.
Women won't be silenced, and we should be able to discuss these issues without condemnation.
Scottish Greens MSP
@MaggieChapman
says
@TessWhite4NE
's motion "echoes toxic narratives".
Chapman says she stands with trans people and will do for "as long as it takes for this poison to be washed from our politics, our media and our life".
Today, we were present at
@TessWhite4NE
's debate on fairness and safety for women in sport. Thank you, Tess, for bringing forward this motion! There were some great speeches. First Tess:
Thank you
@TessWhite4NE
for leading today's parliamentary debate on safe and fair sport for women and girls.
"For every male in the female category, a female is excluded."
Every week there are more stories about women and girls facing unfair, and sometimes unsafe, sport 🧵
Thank you
@TessWhite4NE
let’s hope the Scottish government will listen to what the public want not activists who don’t seem to care one jot about the sporting dreams of young females
Thank you
@TessWhite4NE
. 🙏 I have been bullied, intimidated, threatened & lost work for saying no males in the Female category.
“Institutional cowardice” is exactly the problem. Sports bodies need to find some courage to protect the female category NOW.
#SaveWomensSports
Male advantage exists in sport.
And that is why biological sex matters in sport.
Society has become so captured by so-called ‘inclusion’ that instead of levelling the playing field for women in sport, women are being marginalised even more than before 👇🎥
#SaveWomensSports
Tory MSP
@TessWhite4NE
says "institutional cowardice" has allowed women's sport to be threatened by the inclusion of trans athletes.
"We must be able to question the implication of trans inclusion in sport for women without condemnation and without recrimination."
More than £28 million has been spent on work to create the National Care Service (NCS), new figures show just days after councils pulled their support.
🥋 A 2nd Dan black belt in karate, I've been passionate about sport all my life.
📢 With the backing of Olympian Sharron Davies, I'm leading a debate in
@ScotParl
on safety & fairness in women's sport.
📺WATCH AT 4.10PM:
#SaveWomensSports
@sharrond62
New figures from
@ScotTories
show the SNP has squandered more than £28 million on the doomed National Care Service.
When I raised this with him, all I got from Neil Gray was 'nothing to see here'.
Enough is enough. The SNP needs to pull the plug on this unworkable scheme 👇📽️
Councils, trade unions & NHS bosses have hit out at the SNP's NCS proposals.
Legal experts warned today the plans won't fix the current crisis in social care:
🎙️"...There are real needs that require to be met and none of that's going to be addressed by this legislation" 👇📽️