Women's Equality Watch Scotland

We keep a watch on equalities language, policy and law for women and girls in Scotland. Based in Dundee. Email in pinned post.

[Women's Equality Watch Scotland @EqualWatchScot]

Our message is - anytime you see GENDER being used in policy or law when it should be SEX challenge it (politely) and ask that the organisation changes it. They may not reply but be that broken record. Escalate it. [email protected]

[Women's Equality Watch Scotland @EqualWatchScot]

We have written to @ScotCharityReg and asked them what they are doing to ensure charities comply with EHRC code of practice on single sex spaces as the Charity Commission in England has done 👇
https://t.co/uBczH0VITo

[Women's Equality Watch Scotland @EqualWatchScot]

Why not let the RCN know what you think of them?
https://t.co/FQ2PDX0gSk

[Women's Equality Watch Scotland @EqualWatchScot]

Check your NHS area's policy and write to them.

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

The NHS chooses to promote the desires of a group of men over the needs, dignity and safety of women.

We call on @ehrc to insist that every single NHS organisation obeys the law to keep us safe.

@seeninhealth has done incredible work with their interactive map that allows us to see exactly what the policies are and how to write to the chief executive of the offending hospital.
https://t.co/qxRdvWKxfe

[Sam @wundt_vil]

Incredibly insightful article by Aidan O’Neill KC.

A 20 year long experiment on the most vulnerable and traumatised people in our society - women in the female estate. 20 years!

https://t.co/ViTRAzIs3r

[Jenny Lindsay @msjlindsay]

It's SNP Scotland: a place where women's rights are viewed as optional, being found to have dangerous, harmful, unlawful policies is responded to with a shrug... The good news: we've also got For Women Scotland. 🥳

This week's Scotsman piece.

https://t.co/uJie7T6DwE

[Women's Equality Watch Scotland @EqualWatchScot]

We knew it!
https://t.co/FVhWT48ait

[Women's Equality Watch Scotland @EqualWatchScot]

https://t.co/Egc9PnYNZq

[Women's Equality Watch Scotland @EqualWatchScot]

We have written asking them to amend. This version is from 2023.

[Women Won’t Wheesht @WWWheesht]

It seems @dundeeuni STILL haven't removed this unlawful nonsense.

https://t.co/0JChzDz42R

Given their, well-publicised, financial worries, it does seem to be a little short-sighted to be laying themselves wide open to be sued.

Perhaps their Rector, Maggie Chapman (elected by 4% of students) might have a word

[Women's Equality Watch Scotland @EqualWatchScot]

https://t.co/cx1ZF7y2f4

[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

[Women's Equality Watch Scotland @EqualWatchScot]

We are a little rejuvenated post election so can woman this account once again! Hooray. Please note although this account isn't very active we still have an email address if there are issues you want to share/highlight. Something tells us there's still going to be rather a lot!

[Women's Equality Watch Scotland @EqualWatchScot]

their incredible achievement in getting the law clarified in relation to the protected characteristic of sex. Absolutely groundbreaking. Ciao grazie. ♀️

[Women's Equality Watch Scotland @EqualWatchScot]

This account will shortly be closing due to other commitments that members have. We hope we have contributed a little in terms of ensuring that language specific to women and girls has been promoted in life, policy and law. Very specifically we'd like to thank @ForWomenScot for

[Trina @hightreebud]

As a law firm @SintonsLaw you might note the EHRC has nothing to say about "gender identity", it's not a protected characteristic. Nor is the guidance for employers. Importantly, the UKSC FWS ruling was about the definition of sex in the EA, which you entirely fail to mention.

[Women's Equality Watch Scotland @EqualWatchScot]

"Language shapes law, and law shapes who is prosecuted, who is protected, and who is abandoned.” We do not bend on the use of language for women and girls and mothers. Thank you Reem Alsalem 🙏#CEDAW

[Reem Alsalem UNSR Violence Against Women and Girls @UNSRVAW]

“What CEDAW did in its February 2026 Netherlands report was by no means a minor editorial misstep, this was an institutional failure of the first order. This failure has consequences in the real world, because language shapes law, and law shapes who is prosecuted, who is protected, and who is abandoned.” ✍🏼@MatteaMerta

[Women's Equality Watch Scotland @EqualWatchScot]

We have written to Perth and Kinross Council about their consultation on VAWAG. Here's a barrier to participation right at the beginning.

[Women's Equality Watch Scotland @EqualWatchScot]

https://t.co/IHDPquczI3