Forwomen.scot

 

7 March 2022

 

Forwomen.scot

39 posts today

RT @sharrond62: @PennyRed @jk_rowling @bindelj and we’re not transphobic for wanting equal opportunities of success in sport where biology is paramount & where males come with a huge advantage racing against biological females who’ve trained for ...

March 7th @ 9:06 pm |

Forwomen.scot

39 posts today

As the clock clicked over into #IWD2022 we hoped that @scotgov would listen to us women. However, we are cynical beasts and we know that they will use today to push their political points. I've no doubt that the Misogyny Working Group will make a ...

March 7th @ 7:31 pm |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @DalgetySusan: I have respectfully responded to Kez Dugdale's column in the Times where she argues that self-ID will change lives better. Thanks to @mbmpolicy for the heavy lifting. Writing this, uppermost in my mind was a 16 yr old lesbian ...

March 7th @ 5:17 pm |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @SarahPedersen2: My article argues that writers and creative artists have played an important role in the new Scottish cooperative constellation of feminists - as ably demonstrated by @jk_rowling today. https://t.co/N5jIr6...

March 7th @ 5:17 pm |

Forwomen.scot

39 posts today

RT @campervanwoman: Oh FFS!!! Now I've just been told by an ad for Always that 61 per cent of young people have felt ashamed for having a period. I'm no statistical genius but I'm calling bullshit. Because at least 50 per cent of young people don't ...

March 7th @ 5:13 pm |

Forwomen.scot

39 posts today

RT @LucyHunterB: If more people hold GRCs and the threshold for obtaining them is lower, it becomes much more likely that the prison service in Scotland will have such cases; the issue of whether a GRC matters arises when a GRC holder is refused a ...

March 7th @ 3:18 pm |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @LabWomenDec: @Patrici87761911 @ForwomenScot @ScotParl Jamie Greene (Co-convener); Emma Roddick (Co-convener); Alexander Stewart; Joe FitzPatrick; Karen Adam; Paul O’Kane; Paul McLennan MSP Minutes of the meeting available here: ...

March 7th @ 1:59 pm |

Forwomen.scot

39 posts today

RT @soniasodha: Just another plug for my R4 doc on how to prevent male violence. Tonight @BBCRadio4 at 830pm! Produced by @hardoond. Available to listen as a podcast after broadcast 😊 https://t.co/cQQuvR...

March 7th @ 1:49 pm |

Forwomen.scot

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Why? Is this all your rebuttal, to accuse @jk_rowling of being confused. You argued for forcing through bad law without addressing concerns. She found that foolish. Telling you are, yet again, going for ad hominem in reply. https://t.co/byv5N4...

March 7th @ 12:46 pm |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @ToomuchMorgans: @ForwomenScot Sturgeon knows exactly the abuse that Cherry and Rowling got. After the last indy ref, a guy told Rowling to "fuck off" in 1 tweet and she got involved in that, so the fact there are 000s of abusive tweets, and ...

March 7th @ 9:45 am |

Forwomen.scot

39 posts today

The line from @scotgov is that GRA reform confers no new rights. Untrue. It allows ANYONE whether or not they are trans to get a GRC. This will include rapists, murderers, sex offenders, those who commit DV etc, thereby allowing them to bury records ...

March 7th @ 9:39 am |

Forwomen.scot

39 posts today

RT @GeorgeHotchki14: @ForwomenScot @NicolaSturgeon And reduces the age to 16, a change. The SG narrative about this is very much what the changes are not about. It’s presented as a procedure change. The SG is determined to avoid issues of single sex ...

March 7th @ 9:30 am |

Forwomen.scot

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Bad tempered reply from @NicolaSturgeon on #bbcwato 39:35 She lies about manifesto - there was NO commitment to self-ID & by saying people currently have to go before med panel. It gives non-trans people the right to change their sex. That IS a ...

March 7th @ 9:11 am |

Forwomen.scot

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Another predator thought to be a man of good character with a record of voluntary service. But apparently predators don't hide and, in the latest nonsense comment from members of SNP, they are "lazy". https://t.co/OqEKjn...

March 7th @ 8:50 am |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @hightreebud: @kezdugdale A comment from the Times article before they closed the comments section. Why do you say the Bill just alters a process when this is not true? https://t.co/fPg1ED...

March 7th @ 8:41 am |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @hightreebud: @kezdugdale Another comment from the now closed Times comments. Can you explain how on earth anyone can ever be prosecuted for a false declaration? And do you think detransitioners should be criminalised? https://t.co/Q1aBX2...

March 7th @ 8:40 am |

Forwomen.scot

39 posts today

RT @TwisterFilm: 1./ Stonewall’s increasingly erratic CEO proves she and her charity have lost all credibility when Nancy argues Britain should take a lead on human rights from that shining exemplar…Mexico. You know, the country where over a hundred ...

March 7th @ 6:49 am |

Forwomen.scot

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"However, all of the countries except Norway have more stringent safeguards than are being proposed in Scotland, where there would be no formal difference between 16- and 17-year-olds changing gender and an adult." https://t.co/55ZYKX...

March 7th @ 6:11 am |

Forwomen.scot

39 posts today

RT @DSanderson_85: Scotland is to become only the second country in the world to allow 16 and 17-year-olds to legally change their gender without parental permission or a court order. https://t.co/najDNL...

March 7th @ 5:33 am |

Forwomen.scot

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We have been asked who the MSPs who sit on the group are. Co-convener @jamiegreeneUK @EmmaRoddick (has us blocked) Others: @PaulMcLennan7 (also blocked us) @JoeFitzSNP @GlasgowPam @PFOKane @KarenAdamMSP (blocked us) @toryastewart ...

March 7th @ 5:05 am |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @LabWomenDec: Proud of "wrong sort of lesbian" LWD Working Group member Shereen Benjamin, speaking here for @ForwomenScot on her exclusion from @Scotparl LGBTI+ group Will the 7 MSPs who voted against "look her in the eye & explain" why they ...

March 7th @ 4:02 am |