Sturgeon to give speech at event banning talk of single sex spaces

I'm also baffled about the complete and utter capitulation to TRA/MRA thinking.

In my experience, a male changing gender does not make any difference to whether or not that male is an offending risk against females.

Well, FM, here is the problem - AGAIN: when men are allowed in women's spaces it is 100% impossible to say "this is the ladies" because, hang on to your hat, there is no requirement to undergo any surgery (I'm fine with that, it's a big step), or to make any attempt to look like a woman (whatever that is) including not shaving off a beard, wearing men's suits (also fine to me) and so on. So how the fuck are we supposed to know?

And that's without actual rapes and attacks that have actually happened.

Well as a pro union Scot, that’s the only good thing that could come out of this. She’s botched so much she needs to start focusing on the big stuff. The census debacle is now coming out -the costs involved. She makes me embarrassed to be Scottish.

I find her fanaticism - independence at all cost- terrifying.

But pressing ahead with self-ID puts her chances of winning independence in jeopardy.

Regardless of the truth, (or not), of the sapphic rumours, the bit about funds being unaccounted for is true. The Private Eye regularly brings that up.

Let’s aim high. It’s irrelevant, I don’t like these personal attacks on NS.

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What a rabbit hole twitter is

Plaid cymru are trying this tactic too. It's worrying

From what I have heard she doesn't hate all women 😂

@Faffertea and yes they do need their votes or they don’t have a majority.

She is blinded and fanatical and can never admit she’s wrong. It’s quite scary. The hatred she has stirred up with her reaction to the recent Supreme Court referendum decision . I find her fanaticism - independence at all cost- terrifying.

Theresa May started off down the same route but hit a roadblock when the issue started attracting scrutiny. NS's fiefdom is under firmer control and she's just doubled down. And, yes, doing the opposite of Westminster has great appeal to her as well of, course.

Why is she so committed to this though? I understand now she can’t back down as she’d lose face etc but why go down this route to begin with? She can’t claim ignorance because even the most captured know the truth really.
Do the SNP really need the votes of Green MSPs? Is it all posturing and for woke points to prove she’s different (and that Scotland) is different from the government in London? Or is it something else?
I just don’t get what the motivation is.

Absolutely. Totally disgraceful.

She is a fanatic and will do anything to keep in power, even throw Scottish women and girls to the wolves.

FFS I'm here to talk about VAGW but let's all remember the special men are more important & more vulnerable.

I could not loathe her more

Don’t forget Maggie Chapman and wee Patrick. They’ll be spitting feathers.

“Most” ooooooohh Lorna Slater won’t like that.

Yeah, she's not wrong then, is she, Sturgeon. You don't have to do jack shit to access all areas. The magic words are enough.

force rape survivors to validate your special identity, here, just fill out this form online

Yes, although as far as anyone can tell, Mridul has no GRC and has never filled out any kind of form.

I agree, nils. However, I do think that this tiny little chink in the narrative, an acknowledgement that bad apples are possible, is important. I doubt Sturgeon will ever come round to seeing sense; for whatever reason, she's made her bed on this issue.

But acknowleding that women are not wrong to raise the issues, that there is a risk, may be enough for others to build on, and start to ask questions.

What a deceitful woman. It's not the changing gender that leads men to violence against women. It's the 'access all areas' that comes with it.

Who does she fucking think she's kidding.

You want to to see women getting undressed, or stand next to them while they pee with their knickers round their ankles, or force rape survivors to validate your special identity, here, just fill out this form online, and you're good to go.

Shifting from total denial of reality in her whole "It's never happened, it never will happen, I identify as that evidence you're showing me not existing in my personal reality' to 'ok, it does happen, but only a little bit' ....

yes, it's a fairly big shift. Abandoning total denial of reality, definitely a positive.

But we all know the next default position she's shifting to which is the well known, now very worn out and battered one of 'well it's only a few bad apples, and very occasionally, and it's unfair to stop all male people being happy getting their kit off where they want and freely making female people miserable when it's only a few bad apples who are actually raping them, so be kind'.

It's the narcissist's prayer.

That didn't happen.
And if it did it wasn't that bad.

The position after that is, 'and if it was that bad, then it wasn't my fault'.

There is no place in public office for someone incapable of seeing female humans as equal to male ones.

And the trans women are the most stymatised ever in the history of the world

yet she was at a talk about violence against girls and women. The almost run

Well, this is true. I don't think it will go down well with them at all. Hmmm.

But arabella. Her overlords the Green Party won’t hear of it