Sturgeon getting an absolute grilling on Channel 4 News

As has been said already but deserves regular repetition - another point that needs to be rammed home is that now that even a diehard TWAW advocate like Sturgeon has clearly shown that Not All TWAW, how are women and girls supposed to keep the Pretendy TW out of all the other single-sex spaces like hospital wards, changing rooms, toilets, sports, etc.?

Ns needs reminding that most men do not commit any offences. Let alone offences of a sexual nature. If risk assessed, we could put most men in prisons with women. Sex segregation exists despite this fact. Women deserve single sex spaces.

Love the link to the Finnish trans figure skater falling down and not being able to get up again. (But apparently it was "fun")

(Schadenfreude - the gift that keeps on giving)

Private Eye have been mentioning the SNP's dodgy finances for a while (loan to the party by Sturgeon's husband). Why aren't the mainstream Scottish press on a hot news story like that? Presumably they had great fun with the Number 10 wallpaper nonsense and Johnson's endless feebie holidays. Does she have some hold over the press?

Neale Hanvey was the only politician who responded positively,and politely,to my letters of concern about GRR. He also took time to talk to those of us gathered outside the parliament in the December protest.

oh my god if that is true!!!!!!

Alba MSP Neale Hanvey seems to be suggesting that the imminent removal of NS is a done deal. We can but hope!

twitter.com/JNHanvey/status/1620207823429816320?s=20&t=RbwImoQkar36MW9nsjyD4g

Another great thread from Dennis:

twitter.com/jebadoo2/status/1620197633267748864?s=46&t=tE0Y9NcxvxhhoJ5oSHwm5w

You are right.

I knew this but it just didn't click with me (IYSWIM)

Thank you!

@DisappearingGirl I agree with you

I mean more in the name-calling, glee at the prospect of people who we don’t agree with being taken down and so on

After 20 long grinding years of wondering if and when the world would wake up and see what was staring it in the face, 20 years of ups and downs and minor wins and losses, lost friends simply because I dont believe you can change sex, childrens lives ruined for no good reason, many many other reasons, I will celebrate this success, in my own way. If you think I'm full of glee, well that's on you, I am still very sad for the girls who are now infertile due to drugs, sad so many will still go through this because this is not yet the end, sad for the future of these girls, sad for every woman who lost a job, sad for every woman who still is stuck on a urinary leash until this madness actually ends. Hopefully soon now.

Yes, after she had stated that some people in opposition to the bill were homophobic, racist and misogynistic, I would liked her to have been asked, simply:

Are some people who support the bill racist, homophobic or misogynistic?

I’d like to see the next interviewer continue this theme. So, FM, you claim that some GC people are misogynistic, homophobic and racist.

a) What do you aim to achieve my throwing mud like this when most aren’t?

b) Have you spent any time reading or listening to TRAs, spewing misogyny, homophobia and racism?

They are apparently supporting the teachers who are striking because the Scottish Government (so the Greens themselves) aren’t offering a large enough settlement. As such, rather than arguing with government colleagues about education budgets and pay rises then accepting collective responsibility for the decision, or threatening to break up the coalition unless a decent funded pay rise is put forward, they are taking the day off.

Ooh I wonder why they can’t make it? 🙄

Though they've been a little naughty to the Czechs and Poles and Dutch
I can't believe those countries
Really minded very much....

Oh nothing changes, does it?

C) No-one is stopping these blokes dressing like something out of a low-budget porn flick and giving themselves a girlie name. As far as we are concerned they can knock themselves out - BUT THEY ARE NOT WOMEN.

I used to think like this but not any more. They are using us as a sexual fantasy, dressing as women because they think it is demeaning and shocking.

It is effectively making the threat of rape, and indeed actual rape, into part of a woman's sentence.

It's shameful and more prison governors should be speaking openly against it.

Rape should not be a punishment for shoplifting, or not having a tv licence, or indeed ANY crime.

I despise Sturgeon and hope we can keep the pressure up,but equally guilty are the vile Greens who are now avoiding FM Qs this week by not turning up to the parliament at all!

A) Same sex attraction is NOT REMOTELY like "changing sex". NOBODY CHANGES SEX - EVER.

B) Being "trans" has got nothing to do with who you are or are not sexually attracted to - a remarkable number of these trans-identified men are "lesbians". "Lesbians" who get angry and violent because lesbians (the female kind - you know WOMEN who like WOMEN) are neither attracted to, nor impressed by their "lady dicks".

C) No-one is stopping these blokes dressing like something out of a low-budget porn flick and giving themselves a girlie name. As far as we are concerned they can knock themselves out - BUT THEY ARE NOT WOMEN.

D) They might want to be women, think they look like women, want to be in women's sex-segregated spaces so that they can tell themselves they are women, but they aren't and never will be.

E) No-one is suggesting conversion therapy for them or anyone else. All that is being suggested is that when children or teens express these emotions they are not rushed into transition, into hormones, into surgery - into anything that will have a permanent impact on their health and their lives. Waiting is not "conversion therapy"

F) Do you not think that hating your healthy body so much, wanting to change it so radically, and claiming that people can change sex "shows disordered thinking, they need help with mental illness". Because I do. Puberty is bliddy awful for nearly everyone - but it is part of a natural process and needs to run its course.

Watchful waiting gives precious time to mature - physically, mentally and emotionally. It is known that most children who think they may be trans grow up to realise they are gay, or are autistic, or are both, and don't need any brutal, life-damaging surgery.

People who genuinely suffer from body dysphoria/dysmorphia will be properly supported and helped. The perverts jumping on the bandwagon will jump off again when they realise they can't con people any longer.

chef's kiss

I'm waiting for Nippy to pull a Jacinda "burnt out" as her get out clause.

I’m not convinced that NS is a bio female.

Did anyone hear the BBC radio 2 news about 3ish yesterday? Don’t know who the female reporter was, possibly Tina Dehealey. The way she reported was fantastic.

The way she emphasised the words about how the rapist had transitioned after raping women was so clever. She’s deffo one of us.

And that was illusory. I'm an expat Scot with family back in the motherland and we are directly affected by her party's abysmally incompetent handling of what should have been a straightforward, bread and butter issue for any government, namely, commissioning new ferries to be built for CalMac to run between the Scottish islands and the mainland. An essential lifeline for the islands involved. Could they get this done to a good standard, within budget, on time? No, they could not. They handed the contract to a major party donor with no track record in this area and whose bid was the most expensive and when his shipyard went bust they nationalised it. I see someone (not me) has set up a Wikipedia page to document the whole debacle. Here's an extract.

The delays got worse as the project progressed. By November 2017, when First Minister Nicola Sturgeon launched Glen Sannox,[16] the ship (which was supposed to be in service by mid-2018) was 431 days behind schedule.[12] At launch windows had been painted on, the funnel was not operational and the bulbous bow, though present, was made from flat sheet steel and had been rejected by an inspector from Lloyd's Register as requiring to be renewed in its entirety.[10] The BBC claimed that these items had been fitted so that the builder could claim one of 15 "milestone payments" (to culminate in the final payment of £97 million on delivery of the ferries) from the Scottish Government.[10] As of December 2022 the ferry is not yet in service.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferry_fiasco

It might come into service this year. I'm not holding my breath.

I gather the SNP has made a right stramash of the education system too. Is there anything they're actually good at?

@PineCone74 Nothing at all extremist in holding those views. I am meaning more in the way that they are sometimes expressed. I mean more in the name-calling, glee at the prospect of people who we don’t agree with being taken down and so on.

Come on, just say it. You want women to be nice about this. Don't be beastly to the Germans, eh?