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If you see what the parliament has done by removing sex filters for MSPs on it's website and you don't think that is a yet again a situation where women have had to bend to accomodate the exception rather than the rule, then you are very likely a man.

Victim threatened for complaining about assault, by the new Minister for Victims. thescottishsun.co.uk/news/9120310/s…

Has any action been taken against the police officers who handcuffed this boy and made him bleed to death in the street? Who are they? x.com/i/grok/share/d…

Yet another male so eager to give away that which doesn’t belong to him- women’s sex based rights…

Hi @PoliceScotland do you want to give us vouchers (actually payment is better) to give training on the LAW - you know the thing you are supposed to uphold? You'll find it cheaper in the long run!

Recommendations made by the paid LGBTQI+ panel recruited by Police Scotland include 'Officers more prone to anti-LGBTQIA+ views integrated thoroughly and compulsorily in the pro-LGBTQIA+ activities the police is carrying out.' dailymail.com/news/article-1…

I’m just so sick of weak inaccurate journalism!

A reminder that when the @SpeechUnion overturned Hamit Coskun’s conviction for burning a Koran (originally on the CPS charge paper it said he had allegedly harassed “the religious institution of Islam”), the CPS tried to overturn his acquittal to find him guilty of blasphemy. The evidence that he had caused “harassment, alarm or distress” was that a Muslim man swung a knife at him whilst saying “I’m going to kill you” in response. That guy was spared jail time, but the CPS tried everything to find Hamit guilty.

Congratulations to @AConstance23 on being appointed to Cabinet Secretary for Health & Care. We've been waiting for 824 days for a reply to our letter, hand delivered, signed by more than 1000 Scottish residents, angry at males being housed in women's prisons. Their concerns were sadly realised with recent news that a woman was sexually assaulted by a male prisoner in a women's prison. Despite this being confirmed as unlawful. Perhaps Angela's successor, @neilcgray, who gave his full support to NHS Fife for allowing men into women's changing rooms while they were undressing, will reply on her behalf. Photo courtesy of @iain_masterton

This poor boy was running away from someone who stabbed him & stole his phone, but the police in the UK attacked him instead of his murderer!

This is what happens when women are not counted. The Times today reporting that there are 56 females MSPs when in fact there are 55, with 74 males, two of which are trans-identified. Link to full article in replies.

Doesn’t seem like a tiny minority to me Andy!

"Harvie took the mild-mannered environmentalist party of Robin Harper and transformed it into a far-left home for intolerant extremists, driving out widely-respected moderates like Andy Wightman for even daring to TALK to feminists."

Scotland's new Parliament despises the vast majority of Scotland's voters as filthy primitive bigots. wingsoverscotland.com/the-queer-parl…

Typical Mackay - only "transphobic racists" have an issue with people on student visas being elected to Holyrood. We'd have an issue whoever it was. I bet if Q were a hard line right-wing gun enthusiast from Texas, Mackay would too. Unlike him, we have a principled objection, not one based on politics.

“It appears that, rather than correctly identifying the sex of two new MSPs, someone decided in their infinite wisdom to remove the sex filter for all members. As well as erasing women, there are also wider safeguarding issues here. “Some women may wish to contact female MSPs only. With this change, there are vulnerable members of the public who may not know they are going to see a male MSP.” thetimes.com/uk/scotland/ar…

The Scottish Parliament really looked at the start of a brand new session and thought: “Right, first things first - let’s erase women from the website.” You almost have to admire the commitment to making themselves look ridiculous.🤡

The Maudsley psychiatric hospital is well-known within gender-critical circles for having a rabid LGBT staff network, intransigent on the supremacy of gender identity over sex, and quick to call out "transphobia". Quotes from Maudsley webpages (still up): - On gender identity. "For some people, treatment may just involve acceptance and affirmation or confirmation of their identity." slam.nhs.uk/gender-dysphor… On the importance of Pride: it is "the right to be seen and accepted as the person you truly are." slam.nhs.uk/blog/why-do-we… In 2024, I wrote in an Unherd investigation on the capture of the NHS by gender ideology: "one Pride post on the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust  website  ... talks about “the fight for LGBT rights” as something “to be won against your family or your neighbours or whoever is directly around you”.' unherd.com/2024/04/the-li… That is the fantasy. You, a staff member, are a freedom fighter. You are a hero, saving vulnerable people from the urgent threat of misgendering or being put in sex-appropriate facilities. I'm sure it made staff feel very noble at the time. The reality: today we learn that in 2022, a 5ft 3 female who said/believed she was a man was put on male psychiatric ward, and raped within hours. Inmates chanted "No adam's apple". A man with a history of sex offending was in there, and he stood lookout. It was then covered up by staff. thetimes.com/uk/crime/artic…

1/2 Sex, Law and the Rule of Law in Scotland The decision by the Scottish Parliament to remove the “gender filter” from its website is not a minor technical alteration, it is part of a wider political and institutional confusion between the legal meaning of sex and the ideological concept of gender identity, that confusion now stands directly against the clarity provided by the UK Supreme Court. In April 2025, the UK Supreme Court ruled unanimously that, within the Equality Act 2010, the protected characteristic of sex refers to biological sex, that judgment was not ambiguous, it was not optional guidance, it was a binding interpretation of the law from the highest court in the land. Public bodies, governments, local authorities and publicly funded institutions are required to operate within that legal framework. The importance of that ruling cannot be overstated, sex-based rights exist in law for a reason, they protect women and men as biological classes, they underpin single-sex spaces, safeguarding policies, equal pay monitoring, medical data, crime statistics, prisons, sport and many other areas of public policy. Once sex is replaced with subjective gender identity in official systems, the law itself becomes impossible to apply consistently, The Scottish Parliament now claims that the removal of its “gender filter” is part of an “Inclusive Parliament Review” and that the online filter was merely a “legacy system,” but this explanation raises more questions than answers, inclusion cannot come at the expense of legal accuracy, public institutions do not have the authority to rewrite statutory definitions because they find them politically inconvenient. If MSP records and parliamentary systems stop distinguishing biological sex, then how can the Parliament claim compliance with equality legislation that explicitly recognises sex as a protected characteristic? How can accurate monitoring, reporting or policy analysis take place if the legal category itself is diluted or hidden? This is not about hostility towards individuals, every person deserves dignity and respect under the law but the law must still remain grounded in objective reality, rights become meaningless if the categories they protect are no longer clearly defined. The Supreme Court ruling should have been a moment of legal reset, instead, some institutions appear determined to continue operating under ideological assumptions that the courts have now rejected, that creates not only public confusion but also potential legal exposure for the bodies involved. Public authorities have duties under the Equality Act and under public law principles to act lawfully, rationally and consistently with binding legal judgments, ignoring or circumventing those rulings risks undermining confidence in democratic institutions and the rule of law itself. There must now be serious scrutiny of any government department, parliamentary body or public authority that continues replacing sex with gender identity in official documentation, data collection or policy frameworks. Where legal duties are breached, appropriate consequences should follow, including investigation, compliance action and where necessary, sanctions against those responsible for knowingly disregarding the law. The controversy also raises wider constitutional questions about the Gender Recognition Act 2004, for years, politicians and public bodies blurred the distinction between legal sex and gender identity, often presenting the issue as settled when it clearly was not, the Supreme Court has now exposed that confusion. If institutions continue using the GRA as justification for policies that conflict with the Equality Act and Supreme Court interpretation, then we really need to consider legislative reform or repeal to remove ambiguity entirely and restore legal certainty around sex-based rights.

"One Whitehall source said: 'I think Andy may find that the idea that men should stay out of the women's toilets is not a minority view in Makerfield.'"