Today in parliament @JohnFinnieHI, an ex policeman who should know what violence entails, shamefully called women with opinions and who rejected misogynistic ideas about sex and gender "terrorists". Of course,, there is no provision for stirring up ...
RT @fatblackcatspaw: Dear Lorna Thank you for responding. As John Finnie called women 'terrorists' for talking about abuse and discrimination - The Scottish Green Party will not get any of my votes in the May Elections. Yours sincerely Mary Gordon - ...
RT @Conviction19c: @ForwomenScot @ScotTories I am so sorry @ForwomenScot. You have been magnificent. This is devastating news for women. We will keep on fighting x
RT @Cinthecountry: @ForwomenScot @ScotTories @JohannLamont @elainesmithmsp @JennyMarra @NeilFindlay_MSP @JoanMcAlpine @AlexNeilSNP @WomenAreWatchin Here is a response from Mr Wheelhouse a local map of mine. https://t.co/bYz5Gx...
RT @LabWomenDec: What a shameful decision in spite of clear advice and warnings. We send love and solidarity to women in Scotland. A warning to MSPs who voted for this shambles of a Bill - did you remember that women have the vote? #WomenAreWatching ...
Thank you for trying @MBallantyneMSP It was a dark day for Scotland and we are grateful for the brave women who stood up against this #HateCrimeBill #WomenWontWheesht #WomenAreWatching #IAmTheStorm https://t.co/Be3pVX...
RT @Joy_ismyname_: @HumzaYousaf From the day this bill becomes law I am going to do my best to count the number of women who could have been protected from it until the day the working group give their findings. I’m sure I’ll miss some but I want to ...
Okaay, we missed all this... Really? was this what his was all for? And women were abused in parl for this? https://t.co/qV4yTS...
RT @francesbarber13: Poor Scotland. Encouraged to dob in your parents. The Lives Of Others. https://t.co/XI6hsL...
"Everything in between" as long as you are a man. Women, apparently need to wait. #HimNotHer The @ScotTories did the decent thing and saw the flaws in your awful law. You also fail to mention the Labour women & Joan who did not support. Telling - ...
RT @ProfTomkins: These are the MSPs who voted against the Hate Crime Bill—all the Tories and a handful of Labour women. Labour and the Lib Dems were whipped to vote for the Bill https://t.co/TjRU27...
For the gazillionth time, we'd like to remind @scotlibdems they have a constitutional duty to protect against discrimination on grounds of SEX and to support FoE. Why are they in a party if they disagree with founding principles? @LibVoice4Women ...
RT @JillMirran: @_freetodisagree It's not only about females. https://t.co/XmgJHx...
RT @Emma_A_Webb: Scottish Parliament have passed a Bill that will silence women from defending their own sex-based rights. On a day when everyone is talking about violence against women. It’s enough to make you think - perhaps they don’t really care ...
RT @Jackieme2009: Next to the man that near pushed me to suicide, I loathe this man. https://t.co/kHXGE8...
On a day when an MSP called women "terrorists" in parl for advocating for women's rights and a member of a cross party group made threatening comments about a female MSP who sits on that group. No room for hate? Really? https://t.co/mVLN29...
RT @DalgetySusan: Blokes there congratulating each other on the Scottish Parliament “working” after SNP and Green members voted to support government position to protect men in drag but not actual women and girls. Full of bullish*t more like ...
RT @ReidEileen1: Male MSP after male MSP after male MSP...wow. #HateCrimeBill
A member of the group confirmed again today that she will not countenance it.This is dishonest. You assume women are fools. Those groups submitted one joint submission and did not consult. Maybe the result would be the same, but you are relying on ...
Hate Crime Bill passes as Humza Yousaf tells of first experience of racism
RT @edzellphoto: In 2019 a young woman was murdered in a flat just a few doors from the office of @MairiGougeon. Tonight that same MSP voted for legislation that undermines the ability of women to discuss their own safety. I hope she loses her seat ...
RT @Jen50652769: @DarrenBellreads @ForwomenScot @_freetodisagree @murdo_fraser @RuthDavidsonMSP @AnasSarwar @willie_rennie My great grandmother's alcoholic husband died, leaving her to raise 12 children. She fought the poor house when they came for ...
Thank you to @ScotTories & all in other parties who voted against or abstained @JohannLamont @elainesmithmsp @JennyMarra @NeilFindlay_MSP @JoanMcAlpine @AlexNeilSNP @WomenAreWatchin and we will not forget #WomenWontWheesht #IAmTheStorm ...
RT @DarrenBellreads: Dreadful. @_freetodisagree @murdo_fraser @RuthDavidsonMSP @AnasSarwar @willie_rennie. I am disgusted. My Grandmother - a tailoress in Glasgow 1920's/early 30's- helped stich banners for peaceful suffrage. I will never vote for ...
Thank you. We have been proud to stand with you. There are people in the @_freetodisagree campaign with whom we disagree - passionately - on some points. But that, surely, is the point. We work things out with more speech and mutual respect. Thank ...
RT @mbmpolicy: MSPs have now voted. The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) bill has passed. Voting breakdown: Yes 82, No 32 and 4 abstentions.
RT @_freetodisagree: The results are in... For: 82 Against: 32 Abstentions: 4 The Hate Crime Bill passes. Free speech is under attack. https://t.co/plxIQ8...
RT @murdo_fraser: A shameful day for Scotland as the Hate Crime Bill passes - a law that will restrict free speech, and, ludicrously, gives more protections to men who dress in women’s clothes than to women themselves.
Yup https://t.co/TvDkWT...
RT @fatblackcatspaw: Marion Miller banned for 12 hours for tweeting Women are raped, assaulted, and murdered because they are FEMALE (sex) not present femininely (gender). You are not helping. Three women a week are killed in the UK by males. 1 ...
RT @_freetodisagree: Scotland’s Hate Crime Bill is still a mess - our lass across the pond @madeleinekearns https://t.co/h3cLjW...
RT @JoanMcAlpine: Come to my adoption night and ensure I win Dumfriesshire for @theSNP Great line up including @FionaHyslop @KateForbesMSP Sheena Wellington and other fab musicians @nicolablackmuse and spoken word @StuartPoet @shugmcmillan ...
RT @CatrionaSNP: I feel so angry & sad watching Sarah Everard's story unfold & realising that @jessphillips will read her name in the UK Parliament tomorrow as one of well over 100 women killed by a man in the last year. How long must women ...
RT @MForstater: But it would be if this person was? https://t.co/k79LnN...
RT @MForstater: Why was it not a hate crime when this person was attacked for what they were wearing? https://t.co/nk5mO4... https://t.co/FJzY6M...
RT @MForstater: But not dressing like this? https://t.co/bno9Yn...
RT @MForstater: Why is dressing like this a protected characteristic? https://t.co/hvqFi2...
RT @MForstater: As Susan Smith of @ForwomenScot asks - why is one set of people is being protected for sartorial choice and others not....people attacked for being Goths, having facial tattoos, piercings, the wrong football strip or school uniform. ...
Yet again, a member of the working group says again that sex should not in #HateCrimeBill. If @EmmaRitch is not prepared to approach this with an open mind and weigh evidence as presented, what is the point of her being on the group @HumzaYousaf? ...
RT @Obsolesence: And so it begins, exactly what women warned you about. #IAmTheStorm #WomenWontWheesht #WomenAreWatching https://t.co/iwdUpc...
RT @anyabike: Has anyone seen this letter? The BBC is running a big, uncritical story on it today - without linking to the letter so we can see for ourselves what it says and who is claiming to speak on our behalf. No "LGBT+" organisation speaks for ...
Perhaps women in his constituency will be up for spreading the word on what happened before the election. https://t.co/4vylPl...
RT @holyroodmandy: Anyone that sees @JohannLamont as being full of hate for speaking with passion for why it is wrong to not include women in the hate crime bill, needs to question their definition of 'hate'.
RT @wornoutmumhack: A terrible list produced by @K_IngalaSmith who runs @CountDeadWomen and produces the Femicide Census (with others) but whom the Labour Party has decided is not fit to be a member. Shameful. https://t.co/vzZJ0Y...
RT @maggiemellon: #iamthestorm So angry and bitter for girls and women today that I have lived to see the day when male fetishists and misogynists get protection to do wtf they like - while women are still afraid to walk the streets at night and ...
"Ms Lamont said Mr Harvie’s comments proved her point that even in placing her amendments she was being accused of hate." https://t.co/RuKVlP...
The outstanding @JohannLamont who has moved us to tears over the last two days. #CourageCallsToCour... #WomenWontWheesht #WomenAreWatching #IAmTheStorm https://t.co/b7JeB2...
"My carefully drafted factual speech, much of which was based on my lived experience as a woman, for last week’s international women’s day debate, was attacked in that way" @elainesmithmsp #CourageCallsToCour... #WomenWontWheesht #WomenAreWatching ...
"never in 25 years of going to political meetings have I felt intimidation than I felt then" Thank you @JennyMarra #CourageCallsToCour... #WomenWontWheesht #WomenAreWatching https://t.co/r7gcD8...
Speech yesterday from the outstanding @JoanMcAlpine in support of @JohannLamont's amendment. #CourageCallsToCour... #WomenWontWheesht https://t.co/GvfCkC...
RT @DalgetySusan: I am sure the First Minister is sincere, but she wrote this a few hours after *her* government rejected moves to include the characteristic of sex (so protecting women) in her Hate Crime Bill yet agreed to protection for men in ...
RT @sianmgriffiths: How about every woman who has been called c*nt, slag, tart, slapper and so on and so simply because of who they are? @HumzaYousaf #HateCrimeBill @ForwomenScot
At committee our rep read out a plea from the women of @FOVAS4 - a network of survivors Last year, survivors begged for sex in the FME Bill. The groups cited by Yousaf would have denied them that, https://t.co/Aa9Ncm...
RT @mbmpolicy: AT: people are afraid, in particular women. This should make us all pause. I hope we have done enough to make sure their fears are not realised in practice.
This is outrageous. Yousaf along with Finnie and Harvie bring shame on themselves and on their parties. Argue your case, don't lie about the opposition #HateCrimeBill #WomenWontWheesht #WomenAreWatching https://t.co/yiAZiD...
RT @mbmpolicy: AT: it must be widely understood that just because you are offended, hurt or upset about something someone has said about your identity, it does not constitute a hate crime.
"People are afraid, especially women. That this has instilled such fear in the women in this country should give us pause" @ProfTomkins
RT @DalgetySusan: Our hero @JohannLamont #IAmTheStorm #WeAreTheStorm #SheIsTheStorm https://t.co/VZYKFI...
RT @mum_sex: What is shameful is how Scottish Government has given £200K + of Scottish taxpayers money to Equality Network since 2014/15 to work on ‘intersex’ but they could not find ANY Scottish organisation supporting them in this. No funding has ...
Finnie's shameful appropriation of DSDs noted by the community he pretended to support. https://t.co/2VLKYF...
Sorry, stopped being able type in that speech by @JohannLamont, crying too much! Please go back and listen https://t.co/0vDvvQ...
RT @mbmpolicy: JL: not saying sex aggravator would have solved everything. We could not even agree on a definition of what sex is. It matters because there is now a live debate about whether there is two sexes or not. Term intersex is offensive to ...
RT @mbmpolicy: JL: I do not diminish Cab Sec's experiences one bit. I plead with him: if it is reasonable to pause on women why are we not pausing on these other complex areas?
Johann pleads with Cab Sec. Why can we wait for women but not for other groups?
.@JohannLamont "we made the wrong decision yesterday" Voice breaking as she says she will not be able to vote not because she wants anyone to face abuse, but because it does not address the issue. ...
RT @_freetodisagree: Fraser: “we all know that there are those who want to use law to shut down debate...the legislation will be weaponised by those who want to shut down others”. Absolutely Murdo. ...
.@murdo_fraser says the debate over women's rights has showen how some will use this Bill to close down debate. He cites the "chilling" contribution from Harvie. "Bill gives more protection to men who dress as women than women themselves" ...
Scottish Greens saying that @scottishlabour shouldn't try to protect women from misogynistic manipulative men. https://t.co/l3Ggnb...
The Scottish Greens are a disgrace. This is what stirring up hatred actually looks like https://t.co/W6ekja...
RT @iseult: @ForwomenScot And again Humza seems to be able to distinguish a woman born a woman and know which kind of woman is protected by the law.
Will the SNP finally see sense on its flawed Hate Crime Bill? | The Spectator
RT @mbmpolicy: Our new briefing note reflects on the reaction to yesterday's debate on the Hate Crime and Public Order Bill. A copy has been sent to all MSPs. https://t.co/TlE5Zl...
RT @Jackieme2009: Hi @ForwomenScot can you please retweet this as I'm sure your reach is greater than mine. Thanks in advance. https://t.co/3XfURI...
RT @LabWomenDec: "but also carries confidence of the people who are victims of Hate Crime." Thank you Neil. Email your MSPs now! It's not too late to #BinTheBill #HateCrimeBill #WomenWontWheesht #WomenAreWatching 3/ ...
Thank you for this speech @NeilFindlay_MSP. While legislation is important, it also needs to be done right & not cause more harm than it solves. Yousaf seemed frightening ill-informed on law. We hope that @scottishlabour will consider voting down ...
RT @mbmpolicy: 37 (Lamont (Lab): removing cross-dressers from defn of transgender identity) For: Cons, Lamont, Smith (Lab), Marra (Lab), McAlpine (SNP), Gibson (SNP), Ballantyne (Reform) Against: SNP, Greens, LDs, Lab, McDonald (Ind), Wightman (Ind) ...
RT @mbmpolicy: Amendment 11B (Lamont (Lab): clarifing certain statements related sex not abusive in themselves) For: Con, Lamont, Jenny Marra (Lab), Elaine Smith (Lab), McAlpine (SNP), Bill Kidd (SNP), Ballantyne (Reform), McDonald (Ind) Against: ...
RT @mbmpolicy: 11D (Lamont (Lab): explicit statement that Bill cannot compel expressions of any belief) For: Cons, Lab, McAlpine (SNP), McDonald (Ind), Ballantyne (Reform) Against: SNP, Greens, LDs, Wightman (Ind) ...
RT @mbmpolicy: 17 (Lamont (Lab): adding a definition of sex) For: Lab, Cons, McAlpine (SNP), McDonald (Ind), Wightman (Ind), Ballantyne (Reform) Against: SNP, Greens, LDs ...
RT @wwwritingclub: Here are Humza Yousef’s actual words at Stage 2. Seriously. He said this👇🏻 https://t.co/vRM2id...
RT @Jackieme2009: I need 100 pairs of unwanted women's shoes/boots and 3 or 4 fit women in Edinburgh. DM me for details.
RT @LabWomenDec: Yes! @NeilFindlay_MSP #BinTheBill "The more I have heard, the more concern it has caused me. I think that many of us, if we are being honest, believe that there should be a form of hate crime legislation but how it is being done in ...
RT @Frances_Traynor: I've just emailed all the South Scotland MSPs and asked them to #BinTheBill - a long shot but I did mention my vote in May depends on the outcome of this today https://t.co/wNHSXz...
Elaine Smith MSP (Lab) Stage 3 Hate Crime and Public Order Scotland Bill.10.03.21
Joan McAlpine MSP (SNP) Stage 3 Hate Crime and Public Order Scotland Bill. 10.03.21
Johann Lamont MSP- group1 amendments - Stage 3, Hate Crime & Public Order Scotland Bill. 10.03.21
***Urgent*** Some backbenchers may be wobbling. There is still time to vote down this awful #HateCrimeBill in entirety. Please email asap, especially SNP or Labour and say they need to #BinTheBill #WomenAreWatching #WomenWontWheesht #UnderHisAye ...
James Morton wrote the prison policy that saw male bodied murderers placed in women's prison. https://t.co/c7ycCB...
RT @_freetodisagree: Jamie Gillies of @_freetodisagree gives 3 reasons for MSPs to vote down the Hate Crime Bill today. ❌ Free speech clause inadequate ❌ Danger of malicious reporting ❌ Parallels with failed football bigotry law Flawed legislation ...
RT @PHughes74470229: @ProfTomkins @iseult Already trans activists are lining up to denounce/prosecute Joan MacAlpine, Johann Lamont and any who oppose the men's rights as protected at the expense of all Scottish Women in your Bill, that demeans us ...
After the shameful betrayal of women by @scotgov yesterday, we hope people will grill candidates on where they stand. These are dark times for Scottish women and we need reassurance that they will not get much worse. https://t.co/LWZHwe...
The level of violence against women is so sickening that this is just seen as commonplace. It must be. Why else would @HumzaYousaf @NicolaSturgeon and @scotgov think "cross dressers" (no recorded hate crime in 12 years) needed more protection than ...
RT @GraceBrodie: Me on the hate crimes bill #IAmTheStorm #WomenWontWheesht https://t.co/UwXh7X...
RT @TJVRD: So, if men claiming to be women really ARE women, surely that means they are explicitly NOT protected under the #HateCrimeBill, @HumzaYousaf?🤔 #IAmTheStorm ...
RT @holyroodmandy: The @KenMacintoshMSP must have forgotten to put a coin in the meter, all the lights went out. MSPs left in the dark during hare crime debate...I make no comment.
Many are furious and frightened. This whole mess of a bill should fall now. After all, if it did, the old legislation would protect most groups. All that would really happen is that women might not suffer under it. #WomenAreWatching #HateCrimeBill ...
RT @maliamum: The vote to pass the #HateCrimeBill has been delayed until tomorrow. There is still time to lobby MSPs not to vote it through. We need to keep the pressure up. Plenty of them still concerned about it and most amendments not passed ...
After that debate this is making us weep. This will only get worse now in Scotland as in France, while disgraceful men like Patrick Harvie cheer it on. #IAmTheStorm #WomenWontWheesht #WomenAreWatching https://t.co/Go7RbF...