Police Scotland Chief Constable Jo Farrell: "A man who rapes or attempts to rape a woman, girl or other victim is, should be, and will be recorded by Police Scotland as a male."
"Let me be clear - my priority is to protect victims."
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- Alba MSP @AshReganMSP: "We all owe For Women Scotland a huge debt of gratitude. By contrast, this parliament and this government have let the women of Scotland down badly. "Politicians who did not stand up for women should hang their heads in shame."
00:00 - The Scottish Parliament was briefly suspended due to applause from the public gallery as former minister @AshtenRegan urged MSPs not to vote for the Gender Recognition Reform Bill
00:00 - Nursery accuses health secretary Humza Yousaf and his wife of "colluding in a half-baked sting operation" after they drop legal action against it holyrood.com/news/view,heal…
- SNP MSP @MichelleThomson, who is a survivor of serious sexual assault, says the voices of traumatised women have been forgotten in the debate around the gender recognition legislation. "Who in the past six years has spoken for them?"
00:00 - Douglas Ross raises the Gender Recognition Reform Bill - set to pass today - at #FMQs. “The First Minister's own vote means that a man standing trial for rape can claim they're a woman and force a victim to call them she. Why did the First Minister vote for this?"
00:00 - Critics of Scotland's new Hate Crime Act brought a coffin to the Scottish Parliament to signify the "death" of free speech under the legislation.
00:00 - Breaking: Ash Regan has resigned as a government minister over the Gender Recognition Reform Bill.
- The former chief scientific adviser to the Scottish Government and European Commission says scientific evidence shows sex is binary and cannot be changed
- JK Rowling calls Nicola Sturgeon a "f****wit" who created "lasting harm" for women in scathing review of former first minister's memoir.
- Barrister Naomi Cunningham says Gender Recognition Certificates will make it more difficult for providers of women-only services to refuse access to men.
00:00 - "Requiring women to expose their naked bodies before members of the opposite sex as a condition of accessing employment is without doubt a breach of privacy, dignity, decency and human rights," says @claire_ob1
- Tory MSP @RussellFindlay1: "When this bill passes, I will not go home and tell my daughter I'm proud of what happened here today. I'll tell her the parliament let her down, and let down other women across Scotland." #GRRBill
00:00 - Former minister @AshtenRegan, who quit the government in opposition to the gender recognition reforms, says the bill "introduces a hierarchy of rights where women's rights are demoted".
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