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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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Thelnebriati · 03/05/2021 14:33

In a world where anyone can say they are a woman, anyone can identify as anything, even Nicola Sturgeon.

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ArabellaScott · 03/05/2021 14:29

@ErrolTheDragon

Does 'feminist to her fingertips' mean she just barely touches on it?
Probably something to do with nail polish.
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transsloth · 03/05/2021 14:23

The only reason self-id won't take away protections is because organisations have jumped ahead and ditched single-sex spaces already.

Shedbuilder · 03/05/2021 14:23

Over in Wales Jane Hutt (deputy minister) says the same thing, while refusing to meet GC women's groups and LGBA Cymru and sticking her fingers in her ears and talking about a building a feminist Wales.

ErrolTheDragon · 03/05/2021 14:20

Does 'feminist to her fingertips' mean she just barely touches on it?

Dotoallasyouwouldbedoneby · 03/05/2021 14:16

@lavieengrenache

Women won't wheesht. Hopefully at some point the vast majority of people who see this pish for what it is will translate to losses at the ballot box. I live in hope.
We can but hope. My non-SNP postal vote went in ages ago.
Dotoallasyouwouldbedoneby · 03/05/2021 14:14

....and in other news.....'she who shall not be named' also claims she 'is not a nationalist'....Smile

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ArabellaScott · 03/05/2021 13:51

My SNP candidate seems nice. She may even have sensible views on this subject.

I will not vote for a party with Sturgeon disingenuously selling women down the river like this.

It's the arrogance. Not even the dishonestly and condescension. It's the arrogance that gets me.

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lavieengrenache · 03/05/2021 13:50

Women won't wheesht.
Hopefully at some point the vast majority of people who see this pish for what it is will translate to losses at the ballot box. I live in hope.

terryleather · 03/05/2021 13:47

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.

EmbarrassingAdmissions · 03/05/2021 13:44

There are times when, if you have to tell people something about yourself, it's because they'd never know it from their own knowledge or interaction with you.

(There are times when people choose to be oblivious to your competence and track record. However, it doesn't feel as if this is true of Sturgeon - her record of almost wilful oblivion to unintended consequences is striking.)

Tibtom · 03/05/2021 13:42

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. We have been funding organisations to tell everyone they can take them away anyway. And have introduced a Hate Crime bill excluding sex so women can't complain about it.