Forwomen.scot

 

26 June 2021

 

Forwomen.scot

44 posts today

When members of women's spaces in Scotland met with a senior civil servant his reasoning for pushing GRA reform was that he had met these children and parents and "shaken their hands". This is how policy in Scotland was made. https://t.co/JxbohA...

June 26th @ 6:22 pm |

Forwomen.scot

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Yes, indeed, very hypocritical of GWL to claim they support open conversation when they banned (in contravention of EA) women from meeting to discuss GRA consultation. https://t.co/x4J279...

June 26th @ 5:06 pm |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @andrewdoyle_com: On FREE SPEECH NATION today on @GBNews I’ll be talking to @keogh1992x, Dr Arif Ahmed & @wearewokeyleaks. My panellists this week: @erichmcelroy & @abiroberts. Available on Freeview, Freesat, Sky, YouView, and Virgin ...

June 26th @ 11:12 am |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @TwisterFilm: Pink News wins another irony award as Benjamin Cohen tries to help Stonewall by …err…proving the point made by @TimesLucy and attempting to silence dissent. No one is fit for purpose, say Ben and Stonewall, who refuse to repeat their ...

June 26th @ 8:56 am |

Forwomen.scot

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Thread from Times on the big Stonewall story. For so long, those at the top of Scot Gov have tried to shut women's groups like ours out of consultations (sometimes thwarted by more independent minded MSPs!). Meanwhile, this lobby group dictated ...

June 26th @ 7:28 am |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @BlackIslePMD: The desperate desire to please an unaccountable, unelected and fundamentally flawed non-governmental body is embarrassing enough, but the show-and-tell session for ministerial social media activity is plumbing new depths. ...

June 26th @ 7:19 am |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @LucyHunterB: And while I'm here, please sign this petition as one of the few routes apparently available for inquirying formally into how far recording practices in the criminal justice system Scotland may also have been affected by a desire to ...

June 26th @ 6:53 am |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @LucyHunterB: There is no context in which it is defensible for government officials to offer up changes to national law and policy as a way of scoring credits for their performance *as an employing organisation*. Absolutely none. On any subject. ...

June 26th @ 6:53 am |

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RT @Ayrshirelass13: @littleweemelotz A lot seems to have come out post-election, no wonder folk are pissed off. I suppose it shouldn't come as a total shock as @ForwomenScot were pointing this out months ago, but it's good to see the MSM picking up ...

June 26th @ 6:05 am |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @TimesLucy: Revealed: how #Stonewall uses its Top 100 employers index to “coerce” public bodies into lobbying for controversial changes that affect us all. The whole thing stinks. https://t.co/Nao7mn...

June 26th @ 5:47 am |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @SexMattersOrg: Stonewall uses Equality Index to bully bosses and silence dissent https://t.co/sgzTIM... - thank you to all the volunteers who put in FOI requests and catalogued the responses that underpin this story. There will be more to come ou ...

June 26th @ 5:33 am |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @simonjedge: I can't be the only one moved to tears by @TimesLucy's powerful reporting today, plus that excoriating leader and Kate Harris' killer insider take. Many of us have lost friends and taken all kinds of risks to blow the whistle on this. ...

June 26th @ 5:31 am |

Forwomen.scot

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Stonewall told @scotgov to remove "remaining gendered terms such as ‘mother’ from your maternity policy, and replacing these with gender neutral equivalents. Please refer to Stonewall’s Inclusive Policy Toolkit for further information.”"

June 26th @ 5:28 am |

Forwomen.scot

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Remember how the then Justice Sec rolled over the moment a very mild amendment to protect free speech was proposed? We wonder if former convener @ProfTomkins & opposition MSPs @LiamKerrMSP @murdo_fraser were aware the HCB was being used by SG to ...

June 26th @ 5:23 am |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @JammersMinde: I probably found this more shocking than everything else. Proving proof to Stonewall of shutting down colleagues in internal forums. Proving proof to a lobby group of bullying colleagues in order to get brownie points is as bad as ...

June 26th @ 5:18 am |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @holyroodmandy: One of the questions I am most frequently asked in this whole febrile debate about sex/gender/trans rights vs women’s rights, is ‘how have we got to this place?’ Is it down to simple lobbying by a multi million £ organisation & ...

June 26th @ 5:04 am |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @VoteWithOurFeet: Wonder no more why responses to the consultation on GRA reform were nobbled. Or why the Hate Crime Bill was bulldozed through. Or why #sixwords became a battleground. It was all to stay on Stonewall's good side and high up their ...

June 26th @ 5:00 am |

Forwomen.scot

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RT @TimesLucy: Some people may have little interest in #Stonewall. But chances are your local council or police force or NHS Trust or fire/ambulance service or even your workplace has offered up its policies for Stonewall’s approval and changed them ...

June 26th @ 4:54 am |

Forwomen.scot

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"If you’re more interested in performing your own purity than understanding people’s plurality, you’re not looking at progress, you’re looking into a mirror." Great column from @HadleyFreeman https://t.co/hQhvj4...

June 26th @ 4:53 am |

Forwomen.scot

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An outstanding examination from @TimesLucy of the warping effect Stonewall has had on public life with detailed examination of @scotgov who have encouraged "champions" to bully colleagues on public forums. https://t.co/xk6Kgo...

June 26th @ 4:00 am |