Les

Social media sceptic. Reader of this and that and everything in between. Proud redhead. Devoted to Scotland. Sex realist. #TwiX

[Les @MindGardner]

@NeilDotObrien @Conviction19c 2yr 4months which means he will be out ... next week?

[Les @MindGardner]

@rules_of_izzy @PathOfHecate @LGBwiththeT Trans women are men

[Les @MindGardner]

@Rekt57v @samthechauffeur @legalfeminist Girls menstruation! As yr a man I'll explain; we bleed and menstrual blood is viscous, its thick and sticky we therefore need to wash our bloody hands clean. You are suggesting we do this in front of teenage boys and men....? Are you insane?

[Legal Feminist @legalfeminist]

A Scottish primary school broke the law by failing to provide single-sex toilets: DE and FG v West Lothian Council.

[Gerdundula @Gerdundula1]

This is the real institutional racism.

[Ellie Angharad 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Ellie_Angharad]

@JournalismSEEN In at least one of his threatening emails he says he identifies as a "transwoman" and calls the girls at the school "terfs".

[SEEN in Journalism @JournalismSEEN]

‘Darren Rigby, who sent hoax death threats to schools is jailed’

All girls’ schools were specifically targeted. Rigby ‘threatened to carry out deadly attacks supposedly in response to the treatment of ‘transwomen’’. None of this features in the coverage across outlets, despite the evidence emerging in email evidence and in court, neither does it feature in the Merseyside Police report.

‘I’m going to kill every girl and woman staff member I come across’

‘I'm going to shoot and stab all your girls’

It’s a crime of extreme misogyny in the cause of ‘fighting trans oppression’ but any mention of ‘trans’ has been erased by the police, PA and all news outlets. In addition the BBC report hides the fact that it was a crime against women and girls.

https://t.co/mEtjqOXI7D

https://t.co/MjqUMeGDGa

[Rachel Maclean @redditchrache]

This is the man who called me transphobic for pointing out that he was a bloke in a wig. He wasted police time reporting me for a non crime hate incident. The local Labour Party held a protest in town about me.

Absolutely ridiculous.

He is a bloke in a wig.

[Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙‍♀️🦉🐈‍⬛ 🦖 @babybeginner]

The always brilliant Zoe Nope @ZoeNope made this wonderful video! Gosh Zoe is talented! This is a creator!

[Ellie @pugsandparrots]

Another zinger from @Baroness_Nichol

[Les @MindGardner]

@Mark1957 @WingsScotland I spent a career in the charity sector and it was more common than you'd think!

[Scottish Express @ScotExpress]

Dorothy Bain and Peter Murrell may have 'unwittingly triggered collapse of Scottish justice system' https://t.co/VMUcZGABku

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

BBC PAID A WOMAN HALF A MAN SALARY FOR THE SAME JOB AND THOUGHT NO ONE WOULD NOTICE

Carrie Gracie spoke fluent Mandarin. Ran the @BBC Beijing bureau. Thirty years of service. One of four international editors at Britain's most prestigious broadcaster.

Then the BBC was legally forced to publish salary data in 2017. Gracie looked at the list. Her male counterpart covering North America was on up to £249,000. She was below £150,000. Not even on the published list. Neither was Europe editor Katya Adler. The two women. Funny that.

She had explicitly made equal pay a condition of taking the China role. The BBC said yes. Then paid her nearly half anyway and apparently hoped she'd never check.

She checked.

She asked for equal pay. The BBC, with the confidence of an institution that had been getting away with this for decades, offered her a raise that still left her short.

She turned it down. Resigned from the post. Published an open letter to the licence fee payers explaining exactly what their public broadcaster was doing with their money.

The BBC's response was to put her through nearly a year of their own internal grievance process. Run by the same institution she was complaining about. Investigating itself. Shockingly, it went nowhere.

It took three separate meetings with the Director-General and the concrete threat of an employment tribunal before the BBC caved, issued a public apology, and paid her £361,000 in backdated wages.

She gave every single penny to the Fawcett Society (@fawcettsociety).

A publicly funded broadcaster. Breaking equality law. Caught red-handed. Dragging a 30-year employee through a year of institutional theatre. Paying up only when a judge became a realistic possibility.

[Les @MindGardner]

@gowdavy @jackiebmsp You can hardly blame JB for too many delusional folk voting for the snp!

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

@NadiaWhittomeMP You do realise that if you stop the Code of Practice the law will simply carry on being the law?

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

To all the straight idiots doing the “happy pride month, we’re inclusive the EHRC are awful” schtick

A group of lesbians literally had to intervene in the Supreme Court to stop trans activists destroying the same sex orientation protected characteristic

You idiots

[Caro Betts @BettsCaro]

You’re standing in parliament arguing that:
*sexually abused young girls shouldn’t have single sex counselling
*lesbians shouldn’t have rights of association

Own what you’re arguing

[spiked @spikedonline]

Charles Dickens’ views have been declared offensive and prejudiced by a Charles Dickens museum. Britain’s heritage sector is officially eating itself. Satire is dead, says Sean Walsh
https://t.co/hwtD8qEngh

[Harman Singh Kapoor @kingkapoor72]

Still, some assholes are flexing Kirpans with sharp edges. Ban it now.