Jawbone Walk

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[hardlyperennial🌸 @hardlyperennial]

If you allow men who say they are women into women's bathrooms, you also have to let them into women's refuges, rape crisis centres, prisons and sports, into every space that was intended to be single-sex.
That's what this man, the SNP, the Scottish Greens and the LibDems want.

[Holyrood Sources @HolyroodSources]

"John Swinney could have leaned into this and come out with more credibility, had he acted decisively."

@geoffaberdein breaks down how the SNP leader missed a chance to distance himself from the past and protect his leadership after the embezzlement scandal.

"He's not convincing in some of his answers."

@akmaciver | @CalumAM

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

Alex Staniforth, the man who tried to defund Edinburgh Women's Aid, is now arguing that children should not be prevented from using smart phones in school because "LGBTQ+" children need to access things without parental oversight.
https://t.co/tg5jlhfxxU

[Emma Harriet Nicholson @Baroness_Nichol]

Trades’ Unions ……

[Jawbone Walk @JawboneWalk]

@DMScotPol Her response just underlines her incompetence.

[Stephen Daisley @JournoStephen]

Credit where it’s due, because it is due.

https://t.co/cH4Xivsv3y

[David Hamilton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦 @DvdHmltn]

Last summer I raised the proposition of two changes to FOI law.
One was the extension of FOI law to political parties in relation to the murky world of candidate selection, policy influence and to funding- all of which there are clear public interest cases for. (1/x)

[TransgenderTrend @Transgendertrd]

The judge "found that “sanitary accommodation” meant more than simply a lockable lavatory cubicle, and included the wider space, including nearby wash basins."

This is key. Girls should not be expected to use toilets with boys hanging around outside.

https://t.co/ElLIuedlvs

[Jawbone Walk @JawboneWalk]

@WingsScotland @kimnicoll3 @CrossgateCentre Some remain members in the hope that they can vote for change if the opportunity presents itself.

[Wings Over Scotland @WingsScotland]

I agree with everything in this thread.

[Wings Over Scotland @WingsScotland]

Who would feature in an inquiry into Murrell’s theft of SNP funds?

https://t.co/xVmvbs0Zxu

[Women o' Scotland @WomenOScotland]

Separate toilets for menstruating girls at this West Lothian school are shockingly inappropriate.

This really is something only women and girls will be able to understand.

No matter the operations, puberty blockers, pronouns, or badges, this is an issue that only affects girls.

[Rosie Duffield MP @RosieDuffield1]

@jan_murray @labourlewis Only biological women can and do give birth to babies. There is no such thing as 'birthing people', only women. Most women, and those of us whose work is very centred around birth trauma/medical maternity scandals find this erasure of women extremely offensive.

[Michael Foran @michaelpforan]

The Scottish Court of Session has just ruled that providing multi-user unisex toilets in a primary school amounted to indirect sex discrimination against female pupils.

https://t.co/ulFHKebMK9

[Wings Over Scotland @WingsScotland]

Indy is dying. Only the fall of Swinney & co can revive it https://t.co/aOwnMCLDAQ

[Scott Wortley @Scott_Wortley]

The guidance doesn't apply in workplaces on account of being about services.
Unions used to have legal people who knew these things

[Trina @hightreebud]

Two shocking points were revealed in this judgment.

First, to their utter shame @LoveWestLothian actually submitted in their defence that they had special period toilets for girls. >>

[Chris Cairns @cairnstoon]

Clearly out of his depth, Swinney is in serious trouble https://t.co/X7LBx4pCwc

[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

I see John Swinney has finally admitted that the “ring fenced” fund for a 2nd indyref was spent on other things. Apart from the deceit perpetrated on the donors this does rather beg the question of how the SNP would fund a second indyref campaign if they got a section 30 order.

[@GinaDavidson @ginadavidsonlbc]

Ooft.
Ministers "did not put before the court any particular steps being taken to rectify matters... nor did they tender any apology... there was little contrition... the tenor of the affidavit... tended more towards indignation the Commissioner had exercised his statutory powers