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It is a disappointing take but it's the truth, it won't happen and that is in part thanks to people like you who use their platform and position to spread misinformation.
You say you support women yet silence/ingnore the vast majority of women who support trans rights and people https://twitter.com/ChrisMcEleny/status/1351528768117088257
You say you support women yet silence/ingnore the vast majority of women who support trans rights and people https://twitter.com/ChrisMcEleny/status/1351528768117088257
Here you are supporting an amendment that had no effect on the working of a bill, the only reason for this amendment was to create further hostility.
"I believe females can have penises" is clearly directed towards pre-op trans women. Women's genitals are none of your business
"I believe females can have penises" is clearly directed towards pre-op trans women. Women's genitals are none of your business
The fact that you routinely refer to trans rights and wider LGBT rights as identity politics as a means to belittle or undermine the importance of them speaks volumes.
The only reason you have an issue with identity politics is because you don't have an identity that is
The only reason you have an issue with identity politics is because you don't have an identity that is
routinely; socially, economically and systemically undermined.
May I remind you that racists and islamophobes also use the term identity politics as a means of belittling, getting out of accountability and standing in the way of centering anything/anyone that isn't white
May I remind you that racists and islamophobes also use the term identity politics as a means of belittling, getting out of accountability and standing in the way of centering anything/anyone that isn't white
Yet again you speak up for those defending "sex based rights" yet you have taken no public issue with the women who support trans rights, an opinion that is the majority as evidenced by the results of the consultations by both the Scot/Uk Gov, being abused.
Is that abuse ok?
Is that abuse ok?
Your opposition to the GRA clearly highlights your lack of understanding, or opportunistic nature.
If you had read/understood the Equality act and it's exemptions or the proposal for GRA reform you would know that self ID in GRA is not the same as self ID in single sex spaces
If you had read/understood the Equality act and it's exemptions or the proposal for GRA reform you would know that self ID in GRA is not the same as self ID in single sex spaces
Such a defender of womens rights you like to casually throw around misogyny, this time at a woman for rightly stating that religion has no place in policy particularly those which pertain to womens body autonomy.
"Perhaps learn to absorb a point" meant or not, that's misogynist
"Perhaps learn to absorb a point" meant or not, that's misogynist
Are you referring to trans women as men here or are you using the tired argument that men will use the GRA to pretend to be women in order to come into our toilets and rape us completely ignoring the fact that me attack us without pretending to be anyone but themselves?
Again, such the defender of womens rights you decided to use an international trans day of remembrance, a day to remember DEAD TRANS PEOPLE as means of scoring points.
We can't say for certain that there have been no transphobic murders as not all trans people are publicly 'out'
We can't say for certain that there have been no transphobic murders as not all trans people are publicly 'out'
Regardless of whether there has been any or not the rise in anti trans bigotry here in Scotland and across the UK has seen a rise in trans hate crime and a refusal to admit and fight against such bigotry will see trans people killed for being themselves https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-54486122
"trans warriors"
Are me and the millions of women, who share a majority view as previously stated is evidenced by the overwhelmingly positive results of the Scot/UK Gov consultations, nothing more than "trans warriors" a term most definitely used to belittle and undermine?
Are me and the millions of women, who share a majority view as previously stated is evidenced by the overwhelmingly positive results of the Scot/UK Gov consultations, nothing more than "trans warriors" a term most definitely used to belittle and undermine?
Why are mine and all the women/organizations who support trans rights and people, why do our views not count? Why are our voices not worth anything?
Why do you choose to listen to those who routinely reduce women to genitalia and reproductive capacity and ignore the rest?
Why do you choose to listen to those who routinely reduce women to genitalia and reproductive capacity and ignore the rest?
Again supporting the lie and hysteria that the word woman/women is being erased
Very similar to how the sanctity of nuclear family would be erased by the existence/acceptance of gay men, no?
No one is erasing women, but there is clearly a concerted effort to erase trans people
Very similar to how the sanctity of nuclear family would be erased by the existence/acceptance of gay men, no?
No one is erasing women, but there is clearly a concerted effort to erase trans people
Yet again you refer to self ID the GRA and single sex spaces. It is clear from this and many other tweets that you do not understand that self ID in GRA is NOT the same as self ID in public spaces.
How do you not understand that if you've read the GRA/Equality act?
How do you not understand that if you've read the GRA/Equality act?
"create safe spaces for trans women without taking away safe spaces women have created"
So we should start segregating women if some women are uncomfortable with them? Should lesbians be given separate toilets? Should we return to black women having separate toilets?
So we should start segregating women if some women are uncomfortable with them? Should lesbians be given separate toilets? Should we return to black women having separate toilets?
You'll probably scoff, but where does it end?
Not to mention trans women having a separate space labeled as such puts a giant, neon target on their backs. Are you ok with putting those women in danger so long as the 'natal vagina' ones are ok?
How is this supporting women?
Not to mention trans women having a separate space labeled as such puts a giant, neon target on their backs. Are you ok with putting those women in danger so long as the 'natal vagina' ones are ok?
How is this supporting women?
"which rights do trans people have in Scotland right now that I want to roll back"
As evidenced by many screenshots in this thread, you want to exclude trans women from single sex spaces which includes toilets. That's a current right you want to roll back and what is sickening
As evidenced by many screenshots in this thread, you want to exclude trans women from single sex spaces which includes toilets. That's a current right you want to roll back and what is sickening
to me and many women, the majority of whom support trans rights and people, is that you and a bigoted minority are using women's rights and our possible vulnerability and fear of rape and abuse as a weapon against trans people/rights.
Men don't need to pretend to be women to
Men don't need to pretend to be women to
gain access to our spaces. Handymen walk freely in and out of women's toilets it would be far easier to pretend to be that than pretend to be a woman, go through the lengthy process that is the GRA, get a GRC and only then will they attack.
THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN
THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN
Predators and abuser don't need, neither do they, pretend to be anything but themselves.
Wanting women/trans people not to be defined solely by their genitals is not "trans ideology" neither is recognising that trans people live a vastly different experience to the rest of us
Wanting women/trans people not to be defined solely by their genitals is not "trans ideology" neither is recognising that trans people live a vastly different experience to the rest of us
I am NOT my vagina
I am NOT my reproductive capacity
Me being a woman isn't solely contingent on my sex characteristics, if that is the case you exclude women who's experience is different.
Women without breasts, large gametes, ovaries, uterus etc etc? STILL WOMEN
I am NOT my reproductive capacity
Me being a woman isn't solely contingent on my sex characteristics, if that is the case you exclude women who's experience is different.
Women without breasts, large gametes, ovaries, uterus etc etc? STILL WOMEN
I will ask you since your opposition to GRA is largely based around single sex spaces @ChrisMcEleny how do you legally exclude trans women who have a penis from women's spaces? If the penis is the issue then trans women with vaginas are surely ok, so how do you legally enforce
that? I ask this very seriously because we all know the answer, YOU CAN'T not without grossly violating women.
Women are already harassed in toilets by other women for not being feminine enough, there is no way to legally exclude trans women from single sex spaces.
Women are already harassed in toilets by other women for not being feminine enough, there is no way to legally exclude trans women from single sex spaces.
Any attempt to do so should be called out for the morally repugnant and state sanctioned bigotry that it is which is exactly what is happening right now.
Stop using mine and other women's rights as a means to block/repeal trans rights and further anti trans hostility.
Stop using mine and other women's rights as a means to block/repeal trans rights and further anti trans hostility.
