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Lisa Mackenzie
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Lisa Mackenzie
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After a woman was thrown out of the Scottish Parliament for wearing a scarf in suffragette colours on Tuesday, Labour MP Thangam Debonnaire, Conservative MSP Rachael Hamilton and SNP MP Joanna Cherry all seek to make sartorial statements in the chamber. 💜🤍💚
- Next week, five Supreme Court justices will decide whether the definition of a 'woman' in UK law means someone born female or whether it also includes someone born male who has obtained a Gender Recognition Certificate.
- Girls at Kelso High School have refused to use gender-neutral toilets, councillors are told
- I still cannot believe that a Labour MP thinks that school aged children should be taught how to practise erotic auto-asphyxiation "safely". There really are no words.
- Seen in the women's toilet of a London theatre the night before @ForWomenScot case at the Supreme Court. We beg to differ because #WeKnowWhatAWomanIs and women deserve their own spaces.
- Whatever the outcome tomorrow, this much is true @ForWomenScot
- When the media sought out reactions from those with trans identities to yesterday's Supreme Court ruling, how many of those reactions were from trans identified males vs trans identified females? The tally so far (happy to add to this thread if I've missed any).
- And there we have it. Amnesty do not think that anyone should be able to run a woman-only space or service as a matter of policy. amnesty.org.uk/resources/amne…
- Meanwhile a working class female nurse was suspended for expressing her distress at sharing a changing room with a middle class male doctor at work and all because her managers adopted this mantra. Unions MIA and this is why.
- Good to hear Nicola Sturgeon spell it out on the Today programme: when the Gender Recognition Reform Bill is passed, any man who claims he has 'lived as a woman' for a three month period (no evidence of this will be required) will be able to recognised by the state as a woman.
- One of the UK's leading campaigners on violence against women and girls is barred from joining the Labour party. Yes, you read that right. thetimes.co.uk/article/2c54ac…
- Susan Smith and Marion Calder emerging into the sunshine to celebrate their victory @ForWomenScot
- Last week I sat in the Court of Session in Edinburgh where I heard the Scottish Government's lawyer say "it may once have been thought sex at birth was immutable...it is no longer so" and now I know how it must have felt to sit through the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925.
