Forwomen.scot

 

11 April 2022

 

Forwomen.scot

42 posts today

RT @MForstater: This is despicable. LGBA is not "under investigation" or review. Mermaids and co are taking the Charity Commission to judicial review to test whether it was lawful in approving LGBA's charitable status. The @London_cf has taken ...

April 11th @ 5:17 pm |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @heraldscotland: Nicola Sturgeon has been urged to launch an investigation into claims Lorna Slater broke the Ministerial Code by comparing critics of plans to reform gender recognition laws to racists and anti-Semites. #TomorrowsPapersTod...

April 11th @ 5:08 pm |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @SafeSchools_UK: This is utterly abhorrent. It is disgraceful for anyone to defend a convicted child sex offender, especially an MP. To conflate being a convicted sex offender with being gay is really beneath contempt. Resign. @CPC_HQ @CforWomenUK ...

April 11th @ 5:02 pm |

Forwomen.scot

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Lorna Slater welcomes open debate, she just calls critics bigots and calls for them to be banned from the BBC. Presumably, only certain criticism is acceptable to Ms Slater? #TheNine #ShameOnSlater https://t.co/wtVDqX...

April 11th @ 4:57 pm |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @Obsolesence: A useful little thread of interesting reads following another excellent @LibVoice4Women zoom with @ForWomenScot's Susan Smith and @SarahPedersen2 on what the hell is going on in Scotland and women's rights. #WomenWontWheesht đź’Ş ...

April 11th @ 4:51 pm |

Forwomen.scot

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Lorna Slater on #TheNine @BBCScotNine pretending that her comments only referred to "anti-trans bigotry" and that she "welcomed" open discussion and questions on the GRA. As the host asked, in that case why did she slate the BBC for allowing balance? ...

April 11th @ 4:36 pm |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @MGallacherMSP: I have written to the First Minister regarding Lorna Slaters comments. There is no excuse for the unacceptable remarks made towards women who have concerns about the GRR Bill. It is crucial that the debate is measured and ...

April 11th @ 4:27 pm |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @suzanne_moore: Can the people pointing out that there are poor people in the world and therefore no one should go to a restaurant just maybe get off twitter and do something about it and leave me alone. The world is full of pain. And sometimes ...

April 11th @ 4:26 pm |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @JohannLamont: This isn’t day to day disagreement with political opponents but smearing and attacking the motives of the thousands and thousands of women exercising their right to stand up for what they believe. If @ShonaRobison and ...

April 11th @ 2:31 pm |

Forwomen.scot

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.@mbmpolicy...have asked Nicola Sturgeon, the first minister, to instruct Slater to “apologise and withdraw these remarks”, in a statement co-signed by @fairplaywomen, For Women Scotland, @WG_Scotland, and @Womans_Place_UK. #RespectMySex ...

April 11th @ 1:35 pm |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @NoXYinXXprisons: I spoke to a woman in prison this morning. She is held with TW with GRCs. I asked her what she thought of the Home Office request for police forces to collect legal gender of suspects with GRCs. Is this a solution I asked? She ...

April 11th @ 12:35 pm |

Forwomen.scot

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Claiming to be a "comedian" doesn't protect you in cases of defamation. Unless you have evidence that an LGB charity is guilty of "hate crimes", you should take this down. Nor should you be inciting violence - stirring up hate against a PC *can* be ...

April 11th @ 11:45 am |

Forwomen.scot

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Some people need to understand what inclusion and equality mean. Gay and lesbian people have as much right to organise on the basis of a Protected Characteristic as anyone. https://t.co/ndYp90...

April 11th @ 10:16 am |

Forwomen.scot

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On the same day that Neil Mackay publishes an interview with a Minister in @scotgov who calls for political opponents to censored & smears them as hateful, he offers these pearls. Did he say this to Lorna, we wonder? We have always been open to ...

April 11th @ 8:12 am |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @KennyMcBride77: Hey @lornaslater. I dare you to meet with @ForwomenScot and call them fascists to their faces. @NicolaSturgeon - I dare you to tell them to their faces that their concerns aren't valid, too. Show the courage of your convictions. ...

April 11th @ 8:04 am |

Forwomen.scot

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"journalist and ex-Labour adviser @DalgetySusan suggested Ms Slater had breached the ministerial code, specifically section one which calls on Scottish ministers "to maintain high standards of behaviour and to behave in a way that upholds the highest ...

April 11th @ 7:24 am |

Forwomen.scot

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So, one side of history has the women who has donated millions to charities and spoken up about abuse. The other has the spokesman for an organisation that seeks to normalise paedophilia. So hard to know which the "right side" is, eh? ...

April 11th @ 6:48 am |

Forwomen.scot

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One might think a journalist would be more careful about defamation. Any evidence of these "rabid" views or is this just more frothing from the anti-women brigade? https://t.co/Iy8dYK...

April 11th @ 6:34 am |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @DalgetySusan: Dear @MareeToddMSP Can you tell us when Scotland will start using this lifesaving test? Pre-eclampsia is a terrible disease, but eminently treatable if identified early. And if there are no plans to use it in Scotland, why not? ...

April 11th @ 5:02 am |

Forwomen.scot

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Susan Smith, a director of For Women Scotland, a campaign group, described Slater’s comments as “deliberately inflammatory”. She said that they could be considered a call for the “censorship and suppression of political opponents”. #ShameOnSlater ...

April 11th @ 4:50 am |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @Jigger639: It isn't only on twitter. Out leafleting in lovely Dalrymple and spoke to an older gent out with his dog. First question: What party? I answered: No party, Independent. Second question: So, do you know what a woman is? I answered: Aye, ...

April 11th @ 4:14 am |

Forwomen.scot

42 posts today

Really good from Dominic Lawson on the difference in treatment faced by men and women who question gender ideology. Mention, also, of Veronica Ivy/ Mackinnon including attacks on Magdalen. https://t.co/JLrzLM...

April 11th @ 3:04 am |