"Disagreement over these questions create fertile ground for debate, which may be offensive. Accordingly, the boundaries between what is criminal and what is not must be clear and included on the face of the bill." https://t.co/vWPbwk...
RT @LilyLilyMaynard: This is serious. Women in Scotland may well be criminalised for discussing women's rights. @HumzaYousaf what is going on? https://t.co/zgIAgW...
RT @GeorgeWOxford: Does this mean we won’t see any SNP stickers in future? https://t.co/bEX0UA...
RT @lazyjoolz: @_freetodisagree @tryingattimes @ForwomenScot @mbmpolicy He does this all the time regarding consultations on this issue. It’s very childish, all very “my dad’s bigger than your dad”. One would hope that all submissions would be duly ...
RT @_freetodisagree: Interesting that Yousaf is highlighting only the briefings that express agreement with his plans. No response to @ForwomenScot @mbmpolicy and other stakeholders who still hold concerns. Very Soviet of him. https://t.co/3oyH0Y...
Rick gives perspective... In the words of David St Hubbins, too much f***ing perspective. https://t.co/x32EwW...
RT @Baroness_Nichol: Dinna fash yersel......... https://t.co/tZxsJm...
Thank you x https://t.co/mQ8CZF...
RT @LinB678: @ForwomenScot @ProfTomkins @RoddyQC are you seeing this ?It has already started. 3 elected officials over the past two days using words like "vandalism" and that they need increased "security" and saying the police will be contacted. ...
This was the office of Pete Wishart where a line was crossed, making him terrified of what would happen next. Women answering back in public, perhaps? With facts? https://t.co/SKsG2p...
RT @Baroness_Nichol: Pete,Mr Wishart,I had to hold a meeting inside the House of Lords with extra policing and Black Rod gravely concerned on safety grounds for Fair Play for Women to be able to speak without physical assault.A landmark meeting ...
.@ProfTomkins we hope you will note this is hyperbole. But from an MP who equates peaceful protest (arts & craft) to a step toward anarchy. From a party happy to use stickers if they said "yes". Happy to brutally persecute Charlie Kennedy. They ...
In answer, he blocked us. An honest man would have written. "I don;t support or agree with women's rights and I wish to lie with impunity" A brave man would have answered a polite question. We are sorry for his constituents, This behaviour brings his ...
Have you ever heard of the suffragettes, Mr Wishart? They certainly targeted offices and with violence. We do not promote that. You are an SNP MP, your members put "yes" stickers on many Labour offices. More troubling, they did terrible things to ...
To be clear. Women left ribbons and messages on removable slates or rolled up paper. Peaceful, non-damaging and non-intimidating. Women politicians opposed to GRA are told to die, be raped, threatened worry barbed wire bats. Women are hung in ...
Well done @fairplaywomen and @AskNic for your outstanding work. https://t.co/pdWB0I...
🤣🤣🤣 Serious point: Women's rights activists are not violent and do not seek or encourage physical harm. Some of the MRA/TRA bunch judge us my their lights. https://t.co/GdaUgF...
Worth reminding any of your Lib Dem MSPs that as the preamble to the Constitution pledges them to oppose discrimination based on sex, they really should support @JohannLamont's amendment to #AddSex. As well as the FoE ones (also a principle). ...
RT @Mollycoddles12: @HumzaYousaf Speaking about biology and women's rights is not hateful. #BinPart2 #AddSex #HateCrimeBill #WomenAreWatching #WomenWontWheesht Please support @JoanMcAlpine's amendment. We must uphold our right to be able to speak fre ...
RT @AverageMuslimJ: Just donated to @ForwomenScot on behalf of the great @SVPhillimore on behalf of her biggest troll @callingouthate who thought I was joking when I said I'd donate a Fiver each time he replied to me. Thanks for supporting the sex ...
RT @ColetteWalker12: As a woman, & leader of @IndyScotParty i would dearly have loved to have more female candidates, however we can’t force anyone to stand. Given the level of trolling and abuse handed out online is it any surprise women didn’t ...
The Great Ribbon Terror
Fantastic work by Fair Play For Women! Their legal challenge will go to full Judicial Review next week. In the interim, the judge has ordered the ONS to amend their guidance immediately. ...
RT @fairplaywomen: Judge: Order is that Guidance should be changed to read ..... use birth certificate or GRC /78
This is amazing! Well done @fairplaywomen and @AskNic! https://t.co/XFS5uD...
RT @ScotlandLgb: Could you be arrested for saying transwomen belong in men’s rugby teams? Just one of the questions we pose in our advert this morning in @heraldscotland Great to be collaborating on ads again with @ForwomenScot The Hate Crime Bill is ...
RT @ProfTomkins: I really welcome this, @HumzaYousaf, as you know, and I’m grateful. But what about my amendment 5, which does something similar for the equally important right to respect for private and family life? The family dinner table is surely ...
"With the SNP’s hate crime bill about to pass into law this month, we can all hope and pray that The Great Ribbon Terror will soon be at an end. Sadly, it looks like it’s going to take the entire concept of free speech and political dissent with it." ...
RT @_freetodisagree: Spokesman for @_freetodisagree Jamie Gillies has written to The Herald to respond to Cabinet Secretary Humza Yousaf's article in the paper yesterday. https://t.co/q77Lm1...
Meanwhile, in England... https://t.co/y5s4vG...
We see @BorisJohnson is claiming to be a feminist. He could prove it by condemning the sexist attacks on @CforWomenUK from one of his MPs. https://t.co/uCl3D3... https://t.co/wPWQ5g...
RT @_freetodisagree: "While the Hate Crime Bill will not make certain types of statements about sex & gender identity criminal in themselves, the freedom to do so without risking serious disruption to life will rest wholly on what frontline ...
The background to the passage of the bill and evidence presented makes "Scotland look an increasingly hostile place for anyone who believes it is ever important to have the freedom to see, name and discuss the relevance of sex." Great piece by ...
RT @hightreebud: Seen as I was heading down to the beach in Caithness.😀 Lots of dog-walkers out and about today! #WomenWontWheesht #stickerwoman #HateCrimeBill #AddSex #BinPart2 https://t.co/HJDGl7...
Ad in the Herald today! We don't believe these statements are hateful, but all have been attacked and our groups traduced as "hate groups" for making such comments. Please write to MSPs: ask them to #BinPart2 #AddSex #HateCrimeBill #WomenAreWatching ...
We campaign to uphold women's rights under the Equality Act. That is not "malign". Another example of how malicious individuals will twist women's rights and how the #HateCrimeBill will further embolden them. https://t.co/u1FcnE...
Yes, we trusted courts would adhere to article 10. The problem was & remains the #chillingeffect of reporting & investigation. We are very concerned the law will be weaponised. Esp considering the heightened language of politicians yesterday ...
RT @hightreebud: @HumzaYousaf @ProfTomkins Do you think it is enough to stop Patrick Harvie from calling or reporting his colleagues Johann Lamont and Elaine Smith for 'vicious transphobia' merely for talking about women and their rights in ...
A new group of women on the frontline working to protect women's service and rights. Newly launched for #InternationalWomen... Give them a follow! #WomenSeizeTheDay #ChooseToChallenge https://t.co/emxVet...
.@LucyHunterB & our rep raised the hanging in effigy of Calvo at committee. @Womans_Place_UK organised a letter signed by major orgs asking MPs & MSPs to condemn the violent threat. As far as we are aware, they've not yet done so. Perhaps ...
#AddSex #HateCrimeBill #BinPart2 #WomenAreWatching #IWD2021 #WomenSeizeTheDay #WomenWontWheesht https://t.co/yvGGRc...
This is why we still have to be name women. If we cannot name them, we cannot fight for or support them. These women are not oppressed because they choose stereotypes - convention is used to oppress them because of sex. Their fear & courage is ...
Chilling Effect: How the Hate Crime bill threatens free speech
The ISP is committed to upholding women's rights. https://t.co/oRAPFJ...
RT @LilyLilyMaynard: @ForwomenScot Women's rights are not hateful. https://t.co/Jb22VS...
RT @Obsolesence: BREAKING NEWS : There has been a development in the inquiry, here's some video just in : #IWD2021 #WomenWontWheesht https://t.co/NjZ2TE...