Forwomen.scot

 

22 March 2022

 

Forwomen.scot

20 posts today

"Marion Calder, a director at For Women Scotland, said women had been forced “to pay twice” to protect their rights, by making donations to a crowdfunder to pay for the action, and to the Scottish Government’s failed defence through their taxes." ...

March 22nd @ 6:53 pm |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @StayingPutUK: Staying Put welcomes this careful, informed and robust statement by @womensaid about the importance of women-only spaces for victims and survivors of #DomesticAbuse and #SexualViolence https://t.co/RcC0Jl...

March 22nd @ 6:35 pm |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @LucyHunterB: As SG has now said *it* believes a GRC affects how someone is "sexed" under the EA, it is now presumably forced back on to arguing "A person's sex under the Equality Act is completely irrelevant to their legal rights of access to ...

March 22nd @ 6:28 pm |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @LucyHunterB: From the people who brought you "saying getting a GRC has any effect on how people are defined under the equality Act is 'misleading'" 🤨 [Background: the court has already struck out that the definition of "woman" in the EA includes ...

March 22nd @ 6:28 pm |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @ReidEileen1: Altho feminist friends were sceptical, I believed there was space for compromise in using ‘female’ & ‘woman’ differently to try bridge the divide. My friends were right, I was wrong. Why? The SG & their SNP apparatchiks are ...

March 22nd @ 6:22 pm |

Forwomen.scot

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A great statement by Women's Aid. "The provision of single-sex domestic abuse services is a founding principle of Women’s Aid, and we will defend it" We would like to see a similar commitment from @scotwomensaid #SaveOurServices ...

March 22nd @ 4:29 pm |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @judgejules75: ‘Humiliation for Sturgeon as women's rights campaigners win court case & get awarded costs After a court win..against the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Government, For Women Scotland are congratulated for successfully defending the definition of ...

March 22nd @ 3:46 pm |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @Obsolesence: To all those silly people that complain about women spending their hard earned money on legal crowdfunders, *this* is why we choose to do it. Because it needs doing. Thank you so much @ForwomenScot for being brave and determined ...

March 22nd @ 2:10 pm |

Forwomen.scot

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Counsel are only doing their job. This nonsense is what the Scottish Government have told them to argue in court. #WomenWontWhessht #SexMatters #No2SelfID #SaveOurSex #ShameOnSturgeon https://t.co/PvmCiR...

March 22nd @ 1:15 pm |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @joannaccherry: Good to see this decision won’t be appealed to @UKSupremeCourt & that Scotland’s highest court’s confirmation that the definition of “women” should be as per the #EqualityAct will stand. This could have important implications ...

March 22nd @ 10:38 am |

Forwomen.scot

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Breaking News. Our remedy hearing this morning confirmed that the faulty definition of "women" would be struck from Gender Representation on Public Boards Act and that we are awarded full costs. Thank you all for your support! #SexNotGender ...

March 22nd @ 8:52 am |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @JuliaDRobertson: “I have felt too traumatised to begin writing another novel since.” — @Gillian_Philip I feel this way too…@RooneyRachel recently expressed the same. A must read: “How my career was cancelled by the woke warriors who have taken ...

March 22nd @ 3:37 am |

Forwomen.scot

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It's actually a call do for evidence, not a consultation. Although it is exhausting that we face the prospect of weighty and important evidence being ignored yet again! https://t.co/eiv5GG...

March 22nd @ 3:20 am |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @Michael_AW77: "She's right, but she should've found better way to say it" "She's right, but alienating people isn't the way to go" "She's right, but she's making our cause sound bad" "She's right, but using that word just turns people off" What y ...

March 22nd @ 2:48 am |