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22 posts today"The other guy" was Simon Fanshawe who was fighting for human rights when James was in nappies and when gay men really did face stigmatisation and danger. Have some respect and learn some history. https://t.co/htfwAS...
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22 posts todayIt appears @Keir_Starmer today may have betrayed women in @UKLabour, thrown colleagues to the wolves and lost leverage in labour heartlands. Strangely, he has not RTd his PN statement. Why? Can women be permitted to know if you intend to legislate ...
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22 posts todayWe are in middle of a pandemic, ordinary people have seen civil liberties suspended for over a year. All we ask is the political class abide by the same rules. What are we to think? We are told this endangers lives, meanwhile women are persecuted for ...
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22 posts todayRT @runthinkwrite: Hi @Keir_Starmer I've fought alongside you for labour values. You're right that values of equality, justice, and fairness are central to our party. But self-declaration for trans people is not fair, or just, nor does it bring equa ...
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22 posts todayIf you haven't already done so please sign and ask your friends and family to do so too. Thanks https://t.co/JxZSPw...
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22 posts todayRT @msjlindsay: An exhausting and familiar story with, I believe, some crossover in the players involved in other incidents. Something has gone deeply wrong at Edinburgh Uni. These spiralling, vicious houndings have to stop. They ruin and upend ...
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22 posts todayAnother University getting the PCs wrong, potentially leading them to discriminate against women. Yet more Stonewall influence at play. @Equality_FWS https://t.co/37nnOK...
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22 posts todayRT @JohannLamont: @AnnDHenderson and I have many an argument over the years - in the days when debate was at the heart of our politics - but I have never doubted her absolute commitment to women, to equality and justice. A woman to be listened to, ...
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22 posts todayComprehensive and upsetting account from Ann Henderson of her time as rector of University of Edinburgh. Thanks to our friends at Woman's Place UK for publishing it. https://womansplace...
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22 posts todayRT @joannaccherry: Lisa shouldn’t have been put through this ordeal. Universities should review free speech & equality policies to ensure students aren’t targeted by spurious complaints nor discriminated against, harassed or victimised for their ...
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22 posts todayMurdo Fraser: Justice meets culture wars in Scotland 2021
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22 posts todayBetter news from a Scottish University, as Lisa Keogh is cleared. However, she says this has tainted her final weeks & she feels too worried to attend the graduation ceremony. It's strange how the obsession with "safe spaces" never extends to ...
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22 posts todayLudicrous of @policescotland to suggest that because they do not think this has happened to date they can screw up the data going go forward. They should look to Norway where a similar policy resulted in a 300% increase in "female" rapists. ...
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22 posts todayRT @judgejules75: I’m sure there are more than 5,000 people who realise how important this issue is. If you haven’t signed yet, pls take a minute to do so now. It’s not an outrageous request that the police “Accurately record the sex of people ...
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22 posts todayRT @Womans_Place_UK: @joannaccherry Read Ann’s full statement here https://t.co/HD7YrN...
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22 posts todayRT @sarahditum: It's quite simple, if you expect the UCU to defend your sex-based workplace rights or your academic freedom, you are delusional https://t.co/SuNlFx...
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22 posts today"The Scottish government has said it sees no role for itself in ensuring accurate data on sex in such cases." That is in cases of rape. @LucyHunterB on @policescotland and the decision to record rape by gender identity not sex. https://t.co/iE91hS...
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22 posts todayFrontline Feminists are a collective of feminists working to defend women's services in Scotland. Read the blog and give them a follow! https://t.co/DgZWL9...
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22 posts today"I know.. Police [officers] deeply concerned that they are now being put in the firing line in relation to culture wars over trans rights...they joined the force to protect the public and catch criminals, not be part of a Stasi-like thought police". ...
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22 posts todayRT @joannaccherry: I applaud the courage of my constituent, Anne Henderson, former Edinburgh University Rector & lifelong feminist. The culture of bullying with unfounded allegations of transphobia of which she speaks will be familiar to many ...
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22 posts todayFormer Rector of @EdinburghUni, Ann Henderson was terrorised by student org EUAS: "There has been a significant personal cost, with time off work, sleepless nights, and fearing for my own physical safety" The Uni, shamefully. refused to help. ...
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22 posts todayRT @LesbianGayNews: Jo Bartosch [@jo_bartosch] writes on the “gobby lesbian” challenging Macc Pride over transmen-identified women who wish to detransition and live as lesbians – and she (the "gobby lesbian") should know, as she’s Keira Bell’s ...