Susan
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Susan
@susanfaethegin
Educated when “reading comprehension” meant something. Opinions my own. Depressingly annoyed that the limp Parly of McGhilead are avoiding implementing the law.

Scotland's political leaders getting shamed for their trans beliefs 🏴





Consider this before you vote in the Holyrood elections: SNP ministers read this headline, realised a woman had been sexually assaulted by a man they had put in a women's prison, and thought: "No, nothing needs to change."



Freedom of expression, academic freedom, and creative liberty should never be taken for granted. It's a collective achievement, reflected in your everyday actions. In the EU, you have the space to speak your mind without having to shrink who you are. #ProtectWhatMatters🛡️🇪🇺




This is not the Woman of the Day post. No one meets the criteria. This is the Woman of the Year post because three women do - For Women Scotland’s Trina Budge, Marion Calder, and Susan Smith who said in 2019: "If we cannot see sex, then we cannot see sexism, we cannot define sexuality, and it is the most vulnerable women who will suffer from this." They first met online in 2018 via that hotbed of radicalism, Mumsnet, and then in real life, little knowing that the next seven years would be dedicated to setting up For Women Scotland, spending countless hours learning the complexities of the law, mastering the skill of writing policy documents, lobbying politicians and the United Nations. They were labelled bigots, transphobes, fascists, Nazis, anti-abortionists, far right, Holocaust-deniers - all because they held the view that there are only two sexes and that human beings cannot change sex. It took For Women Scotland six years and the legal equivalent of Snakes and Ladders in which it lost a judicial review but won on appeal, and lost a second judicial review and a second appeal, to reach the Supreme Court on 26 November 2024 for a two-day hearing with unbelievably high stakes for every woman and every girl in Great Britain. I do not underestimate for one moment the pressure this placed on Trina, Marion and Susan: the cost to them financially and personally, the worry, the sleepless nights, the huge chunk it took out of their lives and the lives of their families, but I will be forever grateful that they never hesitated, never quailed, that they stood firm. One day when historians examine this period of history and write of countries captured by the frankly absurd belief that men could become women, could even be lesbians, and that there are 93 genders, the day when academics theorise on why madness arrives in crowds but sanity returns one person at a time, they will speak of the three women who took on the Scottish government and legal system, restored sanity to the UK and won. On 16 April 2025, Trina Budge, Marion Calder, and Susan Smith secured this glorious legal victory for For Women Scotland and for all of us: "The unanimous decision of this court is that the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex.” Lord Hodge, Supreme Court Brava, For Women Scotland! 💚🤍💜 Photo credit: @Anna_Moffat











