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Nicola Sturgeon says she is 'feminist to her fingertips'

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ArabellaScott · 03/05/2021 13:39

Chris Deerin (New Statesman) 'asked Nicola Sturgeon about the Gender Reform Act and whether, given all the controversy that has followed, she wishes she had handled the issue differently.'

Sturgeon's answer includes:

...'one of the other misconceptions at the heart of this is that simplifying the process of gender recognition takes away the protections and the safeguards women have under the equalities act- for example, access to single sex spaces. That is not the case.'

Twitter thread

twitter.com/chrisdeerin/status/1388860234807009281

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MissBarbary · 04/05/2021 19:25

Mr Spence was discussing his belief that a “civil war” in the independence movement now “seems certain”

Oh I do hope that's true and the bloodier the better- a pox on both their houses.

Gibbonsgibbonsgibbons · 04/05/2021 19:18

Yep - I'm so sick of the most victimised & defenceless in society line.
NS "a Scotland where everybody feels safe and respected.” Unless you're a woman who wants single sex spaces for safety & dignity Hmm

terryleather · 04/05/2021 18:41

[quote SoMuchForSummerLove]He should just double down on this as it's true...

[[https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/politics/scottish-politics/2191135/exclusive-alex-salmond-embroiled-in-transgender-remark-row/]][/quote]
I can only read the first couple of paragraphs but his quote sounds about right....

334bu · 04/05/2021 18:31

Lost my vote too
How can any women vote for independence now and roll back women's rights?

WouldBeGood · 04/05/2021 18:30

Yes!

SheldonesqueTheBstard · 04/05/2021 18:26

Indeed.

SoMuchForSummerLove · 04/05/2021 18:23

He should just double down on this as it's true...

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/politics/scottish-politics/2191135/exclusive-alex-salmond-embroiled-in-transgender-remark-row/

littlbrowndog · 03/05/2021 17:04

@terryleather

I'll say it again, those who govern us continue to piss down our backs and tell us it's raining.

Get tae fuck Nicola with yer pish, women will not submit.

Exactly
SheldonesqueTheBstard · 03/05/2021 16:47

Enough said

Nicola Sturgeon says she is 'feminist to her fingertips'
SoMuchForSummerLove · 03/05/2021 16:36

I've emailed my local SNP candidate to see if he can tell me

  1. What a woman is
  2. How many sexes there
  3. What he's going to do about the HCB and the lack of protection for women.

And copied Sturgeon in. Interested to see the response. Although not really because it'll be a load of waffle. But still.

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ArabellaScott · 03/05/2021 16:32

Same here, Tommy. Never thought I'd see the day.

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WouldBeGood · 03/05/2021 16:24

Disingenuous as fuck

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ArabellaScott · 03/05/2021 16:23

Thanks, Betsy, that's fab!

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ArabellaScott · 03/05/2021 16:23

@TommyBrock

I still don't know who the hell I'm voting for on Thursday.
You and me both. I have a list candidate. But not the 1st ballot. I don't want to spoil.
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StillFemale · 03/05/2021 16:15

If it doesn’t affect women then surely they’d be happy for it to be discussed Hmm

Looks like ‘feminist’ is another thing you can ‘self identify’ as when you most definitely are not

BetsyM00 · 03/05/2021 16:05

Times article is archived here: archive.vn/5tluU

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ArabellaScott · 03/05/2021 15:56

Sadly I have no sharetoken: www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nicola-sturgeon-isnt-the-feminist-shed-have-us-all-believe-p0qssjvwh

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Redapplewreath · 03/05/2021 15:44

Nicola's kidding herself.

SheldonesqueTheBstard · 03/05/2021 15:28

She’s been “identifying” as a feminist for a good while now

Aye gibbons

And like most folk who choose to ‘identify’, they are doing the princely sum of sweet fuckall to actually be anything close to resembling what they choose to identify as.

Because like just saying it is enough to make it so, sure...

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ArabellaScott · 03/05/2021 15:26

She thinks it doesn't affect women because the Scotgov say any male who thinks they are female is female. The Scotgov believes TWAW, according to that FOI.

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Gibbonsgibbonsgibbons · 03/05/2021 15:12

She’s been “identifying” as a feminist for a good while now Hmm

midgedude · 03/05/2021 15:04

Well if that's the case perhaps she can take the time to explain how it doesn't affect women

Perhaps she has different ideas about what someone who has formal GRC is entitled to by way of sex based rights ... the rights of their sex or the rights of the sex associated with their identity?

Perhaps she thinks that a GRC holding trans woman is not supposed to use female facilities, female sport etc and in fact we are all worrying over nothing

?

SheldonesqueTheBstard · 03/05/2021 14:40

Well if anyone wanted to identify as a woman hating mealie mouthed hole they would have a fabulous role model in wee Nippy.