Immutable 💚🤍💜🦕 ULTRA

Adult human female. Sex matters. Being a woman is not a feeling. XY can never change to XX. Lesbian. PhD (Law). Blocked by Stonewall & Diva.

[Immutable 💚🤍💜🦕 ULTRA @ImmutableSex]

These 3 things I believe;
1. Biological sex is immutable
2. Humans can’t change sex
3. Sex is the only metric that should be used.
#sexmatters #factsmatter #datamatters #biologymatters #WomenWontWheesht

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

.@GeorgeMonbiot says on the #Netflix documentary about Brand that his transition to the far right is "one of the most troubling things" he's ever seen.

It's not great, but we think the rapes were a bit worse.

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

These women marched to Reclaim the Night, they protested against pornography, they organised women-only events & they spoke about male violence & power.

What they did NOT do was provide services to men.

MSPs like Nevens need to read up before lying about the movement.

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

They did debate male inclusion - including concerns about children.

The RCS groups felt it was the wrong place for men and "retained the feminist gendered analysis of rape".

There was nothing about including men who identified as women.

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

Another point!

Nevens claimed centres were "trans inclusive" for decades. Yet, in this history of the foundation of the centres which was published in 2009, there is no mention of "trans". There are sections on lesbian women & ethnic minority women.
https://t.co/YyZWwMv5FD

[Immutable 💚🤍💜🦕 ULTRA @ImmutableSex]

@VPointon @catkinson80 @AllianceLGB Lesbian here - I also reject the false teaming. LGB is separate from the TQ.

[Dr Viv Pointon 💜🤍💚 @VPointon]

I’ve read your reply @catkinson80 to your constituent who is gravely concerned about the negative consequences of the draft Conversion Practices Bill. Please, please stop referring to the “LGBT+ community”. Many gay men & lesbians reject this false teaming. See @AllianceLGB

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

As a post script: We just checked to see if we could highlight this to Ms Nevens on Bluesky. It appears the MSP has blocked our account.

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

We hope that Ms Nevens is not suggesting that women who have been bullied, harassed, and constructively dismissed should suck it up?

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

@LetAlbaFlourish @FranklyGaslit @MeghanSCUP It would be an interesting experiment!

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

@LetAlbaFlourish @FranklyGaslit @MeghanSCUP Thank you, it does seem very unusual and, if not exactly contrary to the rules, contrary to the spirit of them.

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

Something else to note. Kate Nevens is not a member of this committee, although she became a substitute member in Nov. Substitute members generally attend when one of the MSPs from their party is absent - For example, Ben Macpherson sat in for part of the session yesterday as Collette Stevenson was absent. Nevens substituted for Bruce last week & asked questions in that capacity.

Other MSPs can sit in (& possibly ask questions). They tend to stick to specific legislation they are interested in. For example, @AshRegan_ attended some of the sessions looking at her Unbuyable Bill. Non committee members have to wait until members have finished.

Nevens has attended all but one of the sessions since Parliament reconvened in September & has frequently been allowed the floor. In effect, the SGP have taken an extra seat at committee. Can any former or current MSP say if this is something they have ever encountered before?

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

More allegations against convicted rapist, Russell Brand.

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

https://t.co/0vWXKg0oXL

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

The Councillor who tried to defund Edinburgh Women's Aid is a man called Alex Staniforth, he represents the Greens (of course).

A thread from the day is below:

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

On Thursday, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy told MPs and peers that it was not aware of any complaints related to conversion practices. https://t.co/TGa9eP6PDw

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

On cancer and lesbians...

And why gender conformity does not make a woman!

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

Leya might have stepped back, but her team at Women and Girls in Scotland produced some of the early, important reports about the women's sector which we all built on.

There are many women in this fight.

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

"A woman's space should be for all women, irrespective of whether they've had cancer treatment, irrespective of whether they are a butch lesbian, irrespective of whether they have long hair and heels. It's for women, and that's because women have, unfortunately, suffered for a very long time at the hands of men, and this is what the code is about protecting. And I find attempts to undermine the code deeply, deeply distressing on that basis." https://t.co/aFfiIKQTCE

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

One of the more offensive comments in this interview is about female survivors of male sexual violence.

Dr Manivannan appears to think that because men can be victims of violence, women have to suck it up. He really has no understanding of trauma or safeguards.

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

Holly Bruce asks if we understand the law. Yes, yes, we do - unlike many others.