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49 posts todayImportant thread on misreading of EA exemptions and case law. https://t.co/HUm2uF...
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49 posts todayRT @iseult: Male therapists can work with trauma. But my experience of a male therapist at a rape crisis center was the single most damaging experience of my life. Worse than the trauma itself. He practiced beyond his experience, lied about his ...
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49 posts todayOft! This story! And this is where we are. Women's safety, their humanity, counts for nothing in the face of male need and ego. That's why you cannot prioritise these wants in a service for women without hurting women #AskRapeCrisisScotl... You ...
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49 posts todayRT @RachelRMoran: ...of a domestic violence refuge in the US. Their crime had been asking to be housed with females only, as given the experiences that led them there they were afraid to be around any males. They were called "bigots" and thrown out ...
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49 posts todayRT @VerdiMurray: @alan72502982 @serialsockthief Loads. Talk to people. Write to your MSPs (you have 8), write to your localm councillors, write to your MP. Contact companies to complain. Follow @ForwomenScot and @Womans_Place_UK for ideas. Post ...
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49 posts todayA man objects to women being upset that their experience of rape is "reframed" as bigotry. Interesting Josh thinks he gets to lecture women who have been raped and want appropriate services but he is the "good guy"? https://t.co/LmyaP5...
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49 posts todayRT @VoteWithOurFeet: What an incredible effort! @ForwomenScot smash thru their target, raising the last few thousands needed in a single day. That's what we call teamwork. The fight to stop the redefinition of woman goes on #WomenWontWheesht ...
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49 posts todayRT @iseult: Therapists with an agenda should never work in trauma and sexual violence. it's not a question:) #askRapeCrisisEdinb...
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49 posts todayTo all you brilliant feisty women, thank you! £190,000 is a big #NoThankYou to @scotgov attempts to redefine our sex and strip our rights. #SexMatters & we know #WomenWontWheesht You are extraordinary. Esp thanks @JessDeWahls who pushed so hard ...
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49 posts todayRT @ScotlandLgb: We absolutely support the assertion that women who have experienced rape/sexual assault deserve unconditional support & person-centred therapy from relevant services. It is appalling to suggest or infer that support would be ...
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49 posts todayRT @lazyjoolz: #AskRapeCrisisScotl... is it a requirement for job of COO that you believe - in the face of all knowledge of human biology - that women can have penises? Or do you also employ women who know sex is binary and immutable in human beings? ...
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49 posts todayRT @lazyjoolz: One woman in thrall to queer theory who worked at Edin Rape Crisis and is now a Green MSP. And Joan McAlpine, a brave and principled woman who was gerrymandered out of her seat at Holyrood by the SNP because she knows sex is binary and ...
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49 posts todayRT @mcgilead: @gunsandbanjos Seems to me it's always about the funding streams and Scot Gov have already decided that 'trans women are women'. You'd think there would be some documentation available to show how they reached this decision but no. ...
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49 posts todayMaggie, as former COO of Edinburgh Rape Crisis, do you think shouting Orwellian mantras that tell women to deny the evidence of their eyes and ears is helping promote your cause? #AskRapeCrisisScotl... And does this dispels fears the SGP is captured ...
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49 posts todayAnd please keep RTing this and telling everyone you know (off Twitter!) to be there! https://t.co/8h9VJN...
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49 posts todayRT @hightreebud: So, the big question is: were @rapecrisisscot deceived, or did they knowingly and willingly employ a male in a woman-only position? And I think the Chief Executive has answered that conclusively in this thread: https://t.co/6VzJP7...
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49 posts todayRT @hightreebud: I tracked down the job advert for his current position as Manager at Forth Valley Rape Crisis Centre, which clearly invoked the single-sex exceptions in the Equality Act for a genuine occupational requirement - so Mridul had ...
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49 posts todayRT @hightreebud: The video where Mridul confirms no GRC has been taken down from Youtube, but I saved a copy and here's the relevant clip: https://t.co/UDt9q0...
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49 posts todayAnd we still would like to #AskRapeCrisisScotl... what their understanding of schedule 9 is and what legal advice they received that told them they could offer a job they claimed was only open to females to a legal, biological male? ...
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49 posts todayRT @wonderwomanb: @JeanHatchet I worked in occupational health and a young woman came to see me very distressed. She’d been raped and tried to access help through the company EAP. She met with the councillor who was a ‘man in a dress’. I called the ...
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49 posts todayRT @judgejules75: If this tweet and the testimony attached doesn’t break your heart, I don’t know what will. A young girl, having been gang raped, was utterly betrayed by the very organisation that should have moved heaven and earth to support her. 😔 ...
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49 posts todayIf you are angry - with cause - about attacks on women's rights and freedoms in Scotland, Please come to the demo 11am 2nd Sept Holyrood for FMQ. Hopefully a full chamber will hear that #WomenWontWheesht & that we say #NoThankYou to self ID ...
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49 posts todayRT @JeanHatchet: Go on women! You beauties. Keep asking. #AskRapeCrisisScotl... https://t.co/YxFWHI...
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49 posts todayRT @MessWereInShow: Tomorrow - 4 p.m. UK - The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis with @ForwomenScot https://t.co/aYTZBq... https://t.co/iz7AsC...
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49 posts todayAn astonishing, beautiful, devastating thread about true reframing and how that can help a someone heal from terrible violence. And why that does not including trying to mould the ideological opinions of the survivor. Thank you @FemmeLoves for ...
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49 posts todayRT @JNHanvey: Shocking. Compounding trauma in this offhand and pejorative way is frankly abusive., I can’t believe what I’ve just heard. #ResignNow @EdinRapeCrisis https://t.co/zQZmwW...
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49 posts todayWe know that many women have asked - many times - for the EQIA that led RCS & SWA to abandon single sex policies for self identity. They & Engender are cited by politicians eager to impress that self ID creates no issues. Surely there is ...
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49 posts todayRT @campervanwoman: I'd like to #AskRapeCrisisScotl... if they think women should be able to access female only care to recover from trauma. https://t.co/dH71di...
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49 posts todayAndy Wightman has said “one has to subscribe to queer theory and gender identity theory" within the SGP. It is worrying, therefore, that candidates and MSPs for the SGP are embedded deep within the women's sector where they are also peddling queer ...
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49 posts todayRT @RoddyQC: Rape crisis does amazing work. And I do not have their expertise or knowledge. But in my respectful view, there is nothing “bigoted” in a victim of sexual violence wishing a say on whomsoever is to provide counselling at what must be a ...
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49 posts todayRT @HJoyceGender: Telling raped women that their trauma response is bigotry is perhaps the thing that enrages me most in this horrific cultural moment. That it’s being done by rape-crisis centres is an unforgivable betrayal https://t.co/dsxdTS...
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49 posts todayRT @suzanne_moore: My Guide to Gender Trouble @suzanne_moore https://t.co/8NhoYZ... Subscribe please as special offer for next few days only. Less free stuff from now on! So join us ...
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49 posts todayRT @ShonaghDillon: Excellent blog by @ForwomenScot. A must read for all. But a real necessity for any woman working in the male violence against women sector across the UK to read it. https://t.co/qdc21v...
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49 posts todayWe wonder if RCS also think it does "harm" to correctly record and monitor the sex of violent sex offenders? https://t.co/X47zky...
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49 posts todayWell said! https://t.co/d612H0...
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49 posts todayRT @Jebadoo2: We have gay rights because gay people fought for them. Not anyone else. We have our own history and a right to it. Don’t tell me I owe my gay rights to people who are not gay. I don’t and it’s an attempt to steal my history and heritag ...
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49 posts todayRT @fishpawz: @ForwomenScot @rapecrisisscot @WG_Scotland I’m also concerned that the ceo of Rape Crisis edinburgh @rapecrisisscot is retweeting tweets which target feminist journalists (@sarahditum) by using misogynistic slurs (TERF). Female ...
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49 posts todayRT @JeanHatchet: But the bit that broke my heart today. This. https://t.co/9gJIMy...
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49 posts todayRT @JeanHatchet: This from @ForwomenScot is your must read for today and has brilliant links embedded in it to other vital threads and blogs. https://t.co/K5L1Hp...
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49 posts todayRT @Frances_Traynor: This https://t.co/b8qLc1... https://t.co/lpL8pj...
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49 posts todayOh dear... https://t.co/ospR6K...
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49 posts todayMeanwhile, in things misogynists have been emboldened to say, Peter here appears to be claiming that "TERFs" wouldn't be turned from RCS (why, thank you!) He seems to think "TERFs" are not victims but "perpetrators of gender-based violence". ...
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49 posts todayExcellent thread from @DrJessTaylor who understands who women's services are supposed to operate. https://t.co/SzoZEA...
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49 posts todayWe have written a blog examining in more detail the comments made in the Guilty Feminist Podcast by Edinburgh Rape Crisis CEO and the statement issued by @rapecrisisscot in response to @WG_Scotland There are serious concerns here. ...
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49 posts todayThe Real Crisis at Rape Crisis Scotland - For Women Scotland
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49 posts todayRT @judgejules75: ‘..this person has nothing but contempt for female needs & refuses to acknowledge or understand females have separate needs to males. The language used..was beyond disgusting. Any frontline worker talking that way should be ...
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49 posts todayThread Reader App on Twitter
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49 posts todayA genuinely upsetting thread which should shame Deborah Frances-White with her glib middle class belief that GND have it soooo much worse that women & MW who wants to use therapy as a political tool. The women frightened of violence are real ...
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49 posts today"shriekingly intolerant of alternative perspectives, miserably priggish, and utterly convinced of its monopoly on virtue. The mental characteristics, that is, of people who should be kept as far away from responsibility as possible" @alexmassie on ...