FreedomChainScotland23

COFS is planning to organise a human chain across Scotland.
This will not be achieved overnight - but, with determination together we can. People power!

[FreedomChainScotland23 @Scotland23Chain]

We are aiming to get as many Scottish Independence supporters together to form a chain from the East of Scotland to the West. It will be visually spectacular and get the world's media talking. Please follow and retweet!

[Neale Hanvey🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @JNHanvey]

I’m just going to throw this out there.

Those who raised concerns about the SNP finances were repeatedly attacked, vilified and ridiculed by our own side.

We were 100% correct.

So I am giving fair warning that those of us who spoke the truth on this matter also spoke the truth on the conspiracy against Alex and who was involved. Similarly when we said there was no strategy for independence , that means they’ve done NOTHING.

As with all ice bergs, both physical and political. This is as big as it gets, and we’re not even scratching the surface yet.

Bad day? Expect more.

[Helen Joyce @HJoyceGender]

This judgment should send shockwaves through NHS and beyond. It is to my knowledge the 1st to decide that allowing trans identifying men into women's workplace facilities is in itself discrimination and harassment against women.

[ISP - Independence for Scotland Party @IndyScotParty]

This statement responds to the decision by @ScotNational
to refuse future advertising from the Independence for Scotland Party following so called “reader feedback" and to the conditional offer from The Herald to carry an advert only if it removes any reference to women. This raises serious concerns about censorship, political gatekeeping and the suppression of legitimate debate in Scotland’s media.

No, this isn’t just “strong feedback,” this is a line being crossed. What we’ve been sent isn’t a commercial decision, it’s a political one, a decision to shut the door on a lawful political party because it dares to say things that make the comfortable uncomfortable for the Editors. A paper that wraps itself in the language of independence and democracy has just shown exactly where it stands when a real alternative appears, not beside the people, but blocking them.

Let’s call it what it is, censorship, raw, blunt, unashamed and then comes the so called “alternative,” an offer with a condition that should outrage every single person reading it,
we can have NO reference to women.

Take a second and let that sink in.

A political party in Scotland is being told it can access a front page but only if it stays silent about women, silent about rights, silent about safeguarding, silent about reality and silent on one of its founding principles.

So here’s the question that needs to be answered by these so called newspapers.
When are they going to tell their women readers that their sex is not relevant to their pages?
Because that is exactly what this decision says,
It says women don’t matter, at least not if acknowledging them disrupts a preferred narrative of the queer agenda, it says some truths are inconvenient to the trans allies and therefore must be buried, it says free speech is conditional and only exists for those who toe the TRA line.

Well here’s the problem with that, the Independence for Scotland Party does not exist to toe anyone’s line, it does not exist to ask permission, it does not exist to dilute its principles and it sure as hell does not exist to be told what it can and cannot say by editors, advertisers or anyone else who thinks they get to control the boundaries of public debate.

ISP will not be silenced, not by newspapers, not by gatekeepers, not by anyone.

If you think shutting us out of a front page stops this message you’ve fundamentally misunderstood what’s happening across this country. This isn’t about ink on paper anymore, This is about people, it is about lived experience, it is about voices that have been ignored for far too long finally refusing to be quiet and here’s the truth that should worry them most, every door you close, we’ll kick open another, every platform you deny, we’ll build our own, every attempt to silence us only proves why we must speak louder, because a movement grounded in reality cannot be erased by editorial decisions, so keep your front pages, stick your conditions where the sun don't shine, the ISP will not be controlled by arms of the British state.

The people are watching, the people are listening and no matter how hard you try
you will not silence us.

@joannaccherry
@WWWheesht
@WingsScotland
@jk_rowling
@ForWomenScot
@WRNScotland

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

Year after year NHS Scotland ready to fulfil 98% of all ops on time with less than half the cancellation rate of NHS England https://t.co/SfG9QFXBMX

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If, after reading this article, you continue to pretend that it is ‘hate’ to question the advisability of surgically and chemically castrating/sterilising troubled teens, you’re either malign or dangerously stupid. https://t.co/00xkuB5Q0B

[Rocky Mountain @DavidHa22387054]

@AllianceLGB The effects of PB’s followed by cross sex hormones are life long. The idea that you can follow them for 2 years and reach conclusions is a joke.

What about when they’re in their 20’s and realize their sex life is limited?

Or in their 30’s and decide they want to have children?

[LGB Alliance @AllianceLGB]

We are horrified by the announcement of the PATHWAYS trial. As a charity representing lesbians, gays and bisexuals we are outraged that the lives of mostly LGB teenagers are held in such contempt that blocking their development has been given ethical approval.

We are supporting increasing numbers of detransitioned LGB people who are appalled that more children will be subjected to a trial of drugs we already know to be harmful. They now know they had difficulty accepting their homosexuality. They can attest to the effects of these drugs but have not been asked. All the evidence shows that lesbians, gay and bisexual young people make up the majority of those who will suffer.

Every detail of this planned trial is a disgrace. Recruiting children for a trial of drugs now known to be harmful, while more countries are banning them, is indefensible. The follow-up time is laughably short, the self-evaluation by the children is ridiculous and the expectation of “reasonable prospect of benefit” flies in the face of everything we now know about puberty blockers. Puberty is an essential stage in human development. Recruiting children who have been led to fear it, in the current online and social climate, verges on a criminal enterprise.

It is profoundly shocking that 9,000 children passed through the Tavistock GIDS - again, most of them lesbian, gay or bisexual - and their data have been lost or suppressed. This ill-fated trial must be cancelled. It is unworthy of a civilized society.

[Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh @TasminaSheikh]

We love you @ScotlandNT 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙

[ALBA Party @AlbaParty]

A year ago today, Scotland lost one of its greatest sons, Alex Salmond.

A lot of changed in a year yet so much of what he said still rings true to this day.

He will always be remembered 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[ALBA Party @AlbaParty]

The Dream Shall Never Die.

12.10.24 🖤

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.

I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.

Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.

However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.

When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.

The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.

Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?

I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.

The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.

Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.

[SEEN in Journalism @JournalismSEEN]

Seen in Journalism is horrified and dismayed at the murder of Charlie Kirk.

It is a rare activist who says: let’s talk, I will listen to your argument, come and criticise my ideas.

It is sickening that he was murdered for his openness, his trust and his beliefs.

[Hazel Appleyard @HazelAppleyard]

The UK’s new deputy prime minister btw 🤡

[Talking-up Scotland @ProfJWR]

Reposted in anticipation of media claiming Scot Gov not doing enough to reduce drug deaths: https://t.co/s7DvDs2yMN

[Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh @TasminaSheikh]

Exactly this. Every single word.

[Wings Over Scotland @WingsScotland]

Alex Salmond’s family turn on Nicola Sturgeon over memoir attacks

https://t.co/2tnN9n78NQ

[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

So sorry to read this. Scottish politics particularly the SNP is badly in need of more people of Kate’s integrity. I might not agree with her about gay marriage but I respect her rights to hold different views owing to her religion & I admire her greatly. What a loss.

[The National @ScotNational]

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[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The misrepresentation in certain sections of the media of what the UK Supreme Court's recent ruling actually means is outrageous.

The ruling clarified that women and girls have sex-based rights under British law, and that those rights haven't changed since women gained them.

Trans activist lobby groups lied about what the law said. They claimed trans-identified men were entitled to everything women were entitled to, under the law. This false interpretation, which removed sex-based rights from women and girls and gave trans-identified men additional rights, may have been imposed upon large sections of society, but it was always illegal, as countless legal experts and grassroots women's groups fought to have recognised.

The Supreme Court restored to women rights they'd lost in practice. Trans-identified men lost nothing in law, because they'd never had the rights they claimed they had. The media types now hyperventilating in print because trans people's rights have been 'reduced' are still lying. Nothing has been taken from trans-identified people except a false belief, and women have simply regained what they should have had all along.

[Ash @ashmill1973]

We have had to pay for the change to unisex and now will need to pay to change them back however it hasn't gone unnoticed that when campaigning for sutable toilet provision and changing facilities for disabled people costs and older buildings were excuses given, yet these were suddenly not issues when creating unisex spaces. Councils need to hold those who gave wrong guidance financially responsible not the tax payer the costs to change them back