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Today the Hate Crime & Public Order Act (Scotland) 2021 came into force
@MaryHowden
from
@WRNScotland
said "It is an Act that will have a chilling effect on free speech & women's rights.
Women won't be silenced! Facts are not hate. Truth should not be suppressed"
#FactIsNotHate
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“The abuse JK has endured is beyond forgiveness. Every death threat, r*pe threat & torrent of abuse, she has born with grace.”
Rosetta concluded: 'You're burning the wrong witch. I stand with
@jk_rowling
.'
#IStandWithJKRowling
#RespectMySex
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"I think
#JKRowling
is amazing. I haven't had to confront it myself, but I would support her in that, I think, if it came to it.'
So do we!
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#WomensHistoryMonth
Sinead Watson
@ImWatson91
is a Scottish detransitioner woman.
Aged 20, Sinead began to identify as a man, but now realises this was a mistake. “For me, the damage is done, but I want to stop this happening to other girls and young women.”
#DetransAwarenessDay
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.
@HumzaYousaf
@MareeToddMSP
are in Ullapool today where they met one of our members with this poster ⬇️
Maree Todd said the statement adult human females is laden with meaning and while it's NOT A CRIME it's offensive!
Really? Do tell us why you find it offensive?
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“A women’s rights & gender equality campaigner is having her bank account shut without explanation. Professor Lesley Sawers, 64, the Equalities & Human Rights commissioner for Scotland, has been with the Royal Bank of Scotland,for 32 years”
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Some of our members were in Glasgow City Centre today asking the general public whether they knew if their candidates supported women & girls single-sex spaces. The vast majority agreed that this was an important issue to raise with them and also took part in our short survey.
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“We have learned that not only was the First Minister aware of Ash Regan's opposition to the highly controversial reforms but also that she was told two days before the vote that she would have a resignation on her hands if she didn't allow a free choice”
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“This is a man – biologically and legally (he does not have a gender-recognition certificate) – who thinks he has a right not only to run a women’s shelter, but also to ‘re-educate’ and chastise the women who come there seeking help.”
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Today the majority of MSPs have said they will vote to bring in SelfID despite women across Scotland saying
#NoToSelfID
Why are we being ignored?
#ThisIsMyNo
#NoMenInWomensSpaces
#WomenWontWheesht
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WRN Scotland say NO!
#ThisIsMyNo
#NoToSelfID
#NoMenInWomensSpaces
#WomenWontWheesht
SelfD will enable predators to take advantage of women and children
We say NO! To-
⚠️ Men being treated on a female hospital ward
⚠️ Men in women's sports
⚠️Men in a rape crisis centre
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This is what self-ID will mean ⚠️any boy can say he’s a girl & sleep in the same room as girls on residential outings
⚠️ any policeman can say he's a woman & intimately search female suspects
⚠️any man can say he's a woman & take a job that is for women only
#NoToSelfID
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Some of our members attended
@Hazleheadparkru
today and had overwhelming support for fairness for women
#SaveWomensParkrun
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#WomensHistoryMonth
Joanna Cherry KC
@joannaccherry
A leading KC & specialist sex crimes prosecutor elected as SNP MP for Edinburgh SW since 2015. She stands up for women & girls Happy Birthday Joanna! May your birthday be as amazing as you are 💚🤍💜
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#WomensHistoryMonth
No24 JK Rowling OBE 1965-
@jk_rowling
wonderful author & philanthropist, defender of women & girls rights to "talk about their bodies, their rights and lives in anyway they please"
We know today is a special day so enjoy!
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Women from Aberdeen say Women's Rights Are NOT A Hate Crime!
#FactIsNotHate
#TruthIsNotACrime
#FactIsNotACrime
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We would like to say a big thank you to all the MSPs who voted against the Gender Recognition Reform Bill yesterday. Women & children’s rights can not be ignored
#NoToSelfID
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Our Aberdeen members have been busy today! Here they are speaking to shoppers at Westhill shopping centre about the Conversion Therapy Bill, keeping prisons single sex & how schools are teaching children that they maybe born in the wrong body & received very positive feedback
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We are appalled at the treatment of
@DarcyWAHF
by
@PoliceScotland
we have complained to the
@CC_Livingstone
@ and
@COPFS
We want them to send out a clear message that violence against women in Scotland will not be tolerated
We will not be silenced by violence
#WomenWontWheesht
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@stonewalluk
That's a pretty tasteless tweet given that the Lesbian of colour you have harassed and are currently in a court case with has been admitted to hospital. Shame on you
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“You are a UN Special Rapporteur yet think this targeted harassment is ‘epic’? Joanna Cherry was quite right to draw attention to the threats implied in that post. I doubt your colleague, Reem Alsalem, would be so dismissive of this violent misogyny”
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It seemed rude not to take a photo outside Bute House
#LetWomenSpeakEdinburgh
#DeliberatelyDefiant
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At the inaugural
#womenWontWheeshtSkye
Our next event is on the beautiful Isle of Skye.
24th of September.
If you're looking for travel or accommodation info, drop us a DM & we'll try to help.
#SkyeWontWheesht
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“Raising suicide threats as a response to legitimate debate in Parliament is irresponsible. So is the suggestion that those parliamentarians who support the clarification of the Equality Act want to exclude trans people from public life.”
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We have an Advan driving round Edinburgh today with this message 👇 If you see it take a photo and post it with the following #
#NoToSelfID
#NoMenInWomensSpaces
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Kate Barker from
@AllianceLGB
Says NO man can be a lesbian!
#FactIsNotHate
#TruthIsNotACrime
#FactIsNotACrime
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It is important to be aware that anything from around the world that is read in Scotland is regarded as published in Scotland so has possible implications for all of us.
It is an Act that will have a chilling effect on free speech, arts, education and women
#FactIsNotHate
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We love that our members are everywhere. Here is our wonderful Morag being very clear children should not be told or taught that they are born in the wrong body! Well done!
@Wommando
One more time for those still prevaricating & twaddling along…
“I think it should be stopped. I don’t think it’s right to tell children that it’s possible to be born in the wrong body. It’s nothing to do with mixed, diverse family types; don’t tell children they’re born in the
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Anyone wishing to make a complaint about Scottish Green Party
@GlasgowCC
Councillors Elaine Gallagher & Holly Bruce screaming abuse & shouting "fuck you" at women outside
#FiLiA2023
Here is the link ⬇️
It's a serious breach of Standards of Public Life
That elected officials from the Greens stood proudly beside protestors screaming 'fuck you' at women, including those from Afghanistan and Africa, who were meeting in Glasgow to discuss sex-specific harms such as FGM, disgraces them and their party.
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A 🧵on why
#NoToSelfID
is important right now. On 27 October
@scotgov
will vote to reform the Gender Recognition Act
#GRA
If the vote goes through this removes the need for a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria & people can self declare the gender they wish to live as /1
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Care to comment
@PoliceScotland
this report is damning & says your response was unclear. Self ID is not law in Scotland. Now is the time to clarify your position!
#StateSanctionedSexualAssault
BREAKING 🚨 - STATE SANCTIONED SEXUAL ASSAULT
A new policy has been implemented under the radar by the majority of police forces in the country.
This allows trans-identifying male officers (men who claim to be women) to STRIP and intimately search women.
If you object, you are
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Our Firebrand Jane asking
@JohnSwinney
about single sex spaces and the Equality Act ⬇️
He says the Equality Act should be implemented Jane tells him that
@scotgov
policy allows men to be called women which creates self ID through the back door
#ItsNotGoodEnoughJohn
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The
@theSNP
have a stall at the Echt Show today and this flip chart is asking the general public to comment on some interesting questions. Why then
has the question asking if the SNP support single sex spaces been removed? Is this because they have a total disregard for the
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Say
#NoToSelfID
or it will mean ⚠️ any man can say he's a woman & be treated on a female hospital ward ⚠️any man can say he's a woman & play in women's sports ⚠️any man can say he's a woman & enter a rape crisis centre ✍️to your MSP today to stop this!
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#WomensHistoryMonth
Elaine Miller
@GussieGrips
is a Scottish comedian, women’s health physio & campaigner. Elaine is now running as an independent candidate in Edinburgh campaigning to highlight issues of women’s health provision
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Some of our Aberdeen members turned up to tell
@HumzaYousaf
and
@theSNP
that men do not belong in women’s jails
#WomenWontWheesht
#NoMalesInFemaleJails
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A thread🧵
In August 21 our member
@MaryHowden
before she joined WRN SCOTLAND coordinated a letter signed by 310 people to complain about the CEO Mridul Whadwa The letter was sent to the Chief Executive of Rape Crisis Sandy Brindley & the Trustees of Edinburgh Rape crisis Centre
@tribunaltweets2
RA: Also we had someone in their 60s - she wanted a women-only group therapy context, and ERCC said they were "trans inclusive" and she said "is that women only?" - and a few days later got an email from ERCC saying she was not suitable for their service.
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@WomensRightsNet
@K_IngalaSmith
@CountDeadWomen
@jessphillips
We agree
@jessphillips
has demeaned the memory of these women and should never have politicised the death of a young person.
You can never be trusted to read out the names again
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Women in the Isle of Skye are sending a clear message that women matter!
#FactIsNotHate
#TruthIsNotACrime
#FactIsNotACrime
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Although many gender critical women were able to stay
Many women didn't attend the event because men were there
Left early because men where there
Felt unable to speak up because men were there
An event supposed to be about women is excluding women both directly & indirectly
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Good to see
@Sunday_Post
publish this story about Literay Alliance Scotland. "U-Turn on don't sell terf books guidance"
We are very proud of
@MagiGibson
who put a lot of effort into breaking this story. It would be good to see her acknowledged
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"It isn't conversion therapy to speak the truth to your children & say there is no such thing as being trapped in the wrong body. Adults have a duty of care to the young, & sometimes that means stopping them from doing something they are desperate to do"
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A thread 🧵
How women are being let down by "experts" in violence against women
The Royal Society of Edinburgh held a CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN CRISIS conference on 18 June 2024
It aimed to address critical issues of criminal justice in Scotland and the UK.
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You never know why
@PoliceScotland
might be at your door!
#FactIsNotHate
#TruthIsNotACrime
#FactIsNotACrime
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Women have been out and about in Scotland with our Hate Crime posters. Women's Rights Are Not A Hate Crime. Here's some fabulous women
@ff_scotland
Alloa Festival. We will not be silenced!
#FactIsNotHate
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Please write to your MP and ask him or her to support any action the Secretary of State for Scotland might take to halt the implementation of GRR Bill.
You can use the helpful email template provided here 👇
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#InternationalWomensDay2022
We would like to highlight the work of
@ForwomenScot
who formed in June 2018 amid growing unease about how women’s rights would be affected by the Scottish Government’s plans to reform the Gender Recognition Act to allow for self-declaration of sex 1/
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Oh dear
@dundeewomenfest
don't you know you are acting illegally? and you must know by now that
#WomenWontWheesht
Unfortunately, yet again, women's voices are being unlawfully silenced.
This time by Dundee Women's Festival (
@dundeewomensfest
) who have rejected our event application to be included in the 2024 Festival because our organisation does not "allign with [the] Festival values"
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This happened in a mixed sex space, which proves the point that men will take advantage of access to females and why we campaign for single sex spaces such as changing rooms because they are necessary to protect women’s safety, dignity and privacy. We acknowledge that while
Response Officers in Edinburgh investigated reports of a male taking photos of females within cubicles at Dalry Swimming Pool over the past month.
As a result of their inquiries the male was reported to the Procurator Fiscal this weekend.
#ResponsePolicing
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“I don't want to be in a Scotland where the people last on the list of safety are women & children. There's no understanding of the profundity of domestic abuse and violence. I've found my voice - I'm not going to shut up very soon”
#NoToSelfID
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"The Scottish Government is racing to push through reforms before Christmas that will mean any man resident in Scotland can sign a piece of paper which states he is a woman in law. And we don’t know what the legal implications of this are"
#NoToSelfID
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.
@HeatherB_WRN
from
@WomensRightsNet
says NO human being has ever changed sex!
#FactIsNotHate
#TruthIsNotACrime
#FactIsNotACrime
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In summary we were asked to put our concerns into writing to the CEO of Elect Her and we will! We encourage others to do the same.
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And another birthday present for us - we’ve reached 4000 followers! Thank you to everyone who has followed us 🎉
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This is a great birthday present for us and also a relief for the safety, dignity and rights of women in Scotland
#WomenWontWheesht
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Some of our members spoke passionately about women’s rights at todays
@WWWheesht
speakers corner in Dundee
#WomenWontWheesht
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We have a question for
@scottishprisons
if you have such a robust assessment to establish which men are not a risk to vulnerable women in prisons why can’t it be shared with all women so we can start to eliminate all male violence?
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As the General Election looms. We are very clear that ANY party that wants our votes will need to:
➡️ Confirm that sex is real and important, and that men – regardless of how they identify or dress, or how much surgery has been undertaken – are not and never will be women.
➡️
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There were men there yesterday using our words, our toilets, feeding back in groups for us, promoted in videos & using resources that should only be for women
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We don't think organisers have any idea how it feels to sit & listen to all these positive uplifting words about promoting women knowing that it includes men
Knowing that the majority of MSPs on the panel voted to remove single sex spaces for women except
@TessWhite4NE
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The wonderful
@JohannLamont
speaking up for women and girls outside Holyrood prior to the stage 3 debate of the
#GRRBill
today. We are very grateful for her support!
#NoToSelfID
#WomensRightsAreHumanRights
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Good morning we will see you in Edinburgh!
#LetWomenSpeakEdinburgh
#DeliberatelyDefiant
#FactIsNotHate
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As Nicola Sturgeon
@ScotGovFM
announces her resignation today. We would ask any prospective candidate and politicians to remember that
#SexMatters
#WomenMatter
and that they need to
#RespectMySex
#NoToSelfID
#NoMenInWomensSpaces
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Good luck today Kellie Jay Keen from your Scottish Sisters!
@ThePosieParker
@StandingforXX
#KJKvThePolice
#LetWomenSpeak
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Knowing that one of them
@kaukabstewart
was photographed smiling in front of a sign that said Decapitate Terfs
Knowing that when
@MaggieChapman
said men never experience what women go through she actually includes men
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Scottish
#WRN
members will be in Belfast today
We hope everyone has a brilliant day and stays safe
💚🤍💜
#LetWomenSpeakBelfast
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Finally during the Mid Life Revolution workshop women addressed the "Elephant In the room" we said how it feels & although there was an initial attempt to divert discussion we talked about it
We would like to thank the facilitator
@maggsmct
for giving us the space to do this
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#WomensHistoryMonth
Rosie Kay
@RosieKayK2CO
Dancer & choreographer known for the award winning show '5 Soldiers' & the handover to the 2018 Commonwealth Games Cancelled by her own company she is now CEO & Artistic Director of K200 She fights for freedom of expression in the arts
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These women are intelligent & informed
They know that male violence against women is sex based
They know that you can't change sex
They know accurate statistics matter
What will it take to for them to stand up for vulnerable women and admit this?
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Many women who hold gender critical beliefs which are enshrined in law (Forstater) and worthy of respect in a democratic society were ignored through out the event Women were expected to accept these men as women and nothing was said about it
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'Women’s single-sex spaces for privacy, safety or therapeutic purposes are enshrined in the Equality Act 2010, she writes. These important protections will be impossible to uphold when anyone can decide they are a woman"
Well said!
@AshtenRegan
#NoToSelfID
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Women from Dundee also known as ‘She Town’ certainly know what a woman is!
#TruthIsNotACrime
#FactIsNotACrime
#FactIsNotHate
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Women in Dundee were protesting tonight
First up
@ShonaRobison
office
Next up
@JoeFitzSNP
Because Dundee
#WomenWontWheesht
#KeepPrisonsSingleSex
#RespectMySex
#WeToldYouSo
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How it feels to encounter men in spaces that should be single sex
How it feels to have men speak up on your behalf as if they are one of you!
This incongruence became the "Elephant inthe room"
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On Burns Night in 2024 this message has never been more pertinent
#WomensRightsMeritAttention
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Today April 1 2024 the Hate Crime and Public Order Act (Scotland) 2021 comes into force in Scotland. The legislation broadens the scope of the existing offence of stirring up hatred.
#FactIsNotHate
#TruthIsNotACrime
#FactIsNotACrime
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Maya Forstater at
#FiLiA2022
stating that 13 million people have changed their mind on self ID based on British Social Attitudes survey . She says that’s big! Are you one of the 13 million then tell your MSP
#NoToSelfID
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It seems that it's not just libraries or book shops who are censoring what we read but 2nd hand bookshops too!
What happened to freedom of thought and speech in the city of enlightenment
@armchairbooks
do you offer us opinions on any other subjects?
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#WomensHistoryMonth
Dr Kath Murray, Lucy Hunter Blackburn & Lisa Mackenzie are an independent policy analysis collective
@mbmpolicy
established in 2018.
MBM has made a significant contribution to the analysis of the GRR Bill & it’s impact on women’s rights & the Equality Act 2010
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This case is an outrage and yet another example of why we say
#KeepPrisonsSingleSex
#NotOurCrimes
#NoToSelfID
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This is the type of misinformation that Dr Cass warns us against. We are appalled that a government minister would go on live TV and say this!
#CassReview
Patrick Harvie refuses to accept that the Cass Report is a valid piece of scientific research.
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Another excellent article by
@ladymcbeth2
highlighting the lack of qualifications that staff at lgbty Scotland have. The charity has such life changing impact on children & young people in Scottish Schools.
Another
#SafeguardingFail
#DefundLGBTYS
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'Should Alister Jack decide he has to intervene on the bill because the impact on women’s rights across the UK has not been properly addressed, he may be pleasantly surprised at the public support he receives.”
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@RonniNicole1
Daniel needing some publicity for something? Can't think of any other reason he'd ignite his row just now 🤔
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🧵 Let's not forget Katie Dolatowski, a biological male and convicted paedophile is still in Cornton Vale prison following an assault on a male in Polmont prison. We think this is very wrong and if you do too we urge you all to write to your MSPs and ask the following:
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"Cathy Larkman, who served for more than 30 years and is now the national policing lead for the Women's Rights Network, criticised the new push to have police involved in the 'highly political' parades.
She said: 'Policing a march is of course fine, as
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'To be clear, please feel free to add me to your so-called ‘women’s rights campaign’s’ list of women candidates that you intend to encourage your ‘gender critical’ associates not to vote for in the council elections."
Well that's clear 👇
#RespectMySex
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Women were right to be concerned in 2021 & continue to be in 2023
What has happened in Scotland that women who are abused & traumatised mean so little?
Why is no one holding these organisations to account when they flagrantly disregard their standards
@scotgov
@jenni_minto
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Say
#NoToSelfID
or ⚠️any man can say he's a woman & accept an award for women only
⚠️any man can say he's a woman & be counted as a woman in official data
⚠️ any man can say he's a woman & if he commits a crime it is recorded as a woman's crime
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"I’ve had over 100 cards & I’ve had some letters as well. If you add that into tweets, Facebook messages and emails, I’ve had over 800 emails, the majority of which were more positive. So I think it’s clear the public don’t support these changes.”
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.
@ElectHer_UK
we hear your event in Aberdeen didn't go as you planned. You really should stop prioritising men's demands and focus on women only because
#WomenWontWheesht
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Not all our members were at
#FiLiA2023
some stood out in the rain & cold alongside our sisters in Aberdeen to let
@theSNP
know that
#SexMatters
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We applaud these women ⬇️
@nhs
should be ashamed of their unwillingness to protect their staff
NHS chiefs are facing landmark legal action after 26 female hospital nurses protested about being forced to share a women's changing room with a male colleague who claims to be transgender.
The women complained that the man – who has not had gender reassignment surgery – had
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These amazing women
@MForstater
@HJoyceGender
@hb29Q
are standing with Scottish Women
#WomensRally
#NoMenInWomensSpaces
#NoToSelfId
#RespectMySex
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“I feel that giving this man a caution after an unprovoked attack, they're just saying you can punch these women that you don't agree with and steal their property with impunity and all you are going to get is a slap on the wrist.”
#WomenWontWheesht
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