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Kate Forbes backs JKR on trans rights.

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ArabellaScott · 13/03/2023 20:14

All three SNP leader candidates interviewed on Sky News just now.

It's a live channel, so no idea how to share a time stamp, sorry. Anyway:

Question: 'Is JK Rowling a national treasure'

Humza: 'Yes, I think she's done amazing in terms of the books she's written, but I disagree ve-HEM-EN-ently with her on the issue of transgender rights.'

Kate: 'Yes. And I do think she's brave'.

Interviewer: 'Do you disagree with her on the issue of transgender rights?'

Kate; 'No, I don't disagree with her'.

Ash: 'I think she's a national treasure, yes. I think she was very brave to speak out on an issue where many women who had raised legitimate concerns were receiving you know, quite threatening communications, so yes, she's definitely a national treasure.'

[Followed by a loud bang off-stage, either the producer fainting, Nicola dropping her Harry Potter book, or as suggested elsewhere, someone being shot.]

https://www.youtube.com/live/9Auq9mYxFEE?feature=share

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Helleofabore · 13/03/2023 22:09

ArabellaScott · 13/03/2023 22:07

Ah, you're a better wumman than me, Helleofabore. Grin

Nah. Just have realised I have been mispronouncing it forever… 😁But hey, I have never really heard it pronounced before. Just read it.

ArabellaScott · 13/03/2023 22:07

Ah, you're a better wumman than me, Helleofabore. Grin

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Helleofabore · 13/03/2023 22:05

ArabellaScott · 13/03/2023 21:55

He didn't, he used the word VEHEEMENENTLY.

Well, I am not going to throw a stone about pronunciation of vehemently, glass houses and all. 😔

ArabellaScott · 13/03/2023 22:02

Humza is mostly enamoured of Humzelf.

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Ritasueandbobtoo9 · 13/03/2023 21:59

Humza - Misogynist.

ArabellaScott · 13/03/2023 21:55

He didn't, he used the word VEHEEMENENTLY.

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ScribblingPixie · 13/03/2023 21:34

Why did he feel the need to use the word vehemently?

WhereYouLeftIt · 13/03/2023 21:11

Good to see! Here's the clip rather than the live feed, which has moved on somewhat.

And Humza - don't use a word if you don't know how to pronounce it!

Kate Forbes backs JKR on trans rights.
ArabellaScott · 13/03/2023 20:48

It was a phoned-in question on a Sky News interview panel show. Not SNP members, necessarily.

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stealtheatingtunnocks · 13/03/2023 20:47

Gosh. The women are, of course, right.

that was from a hustings, was it? So snp members asking about JKR? Trying to set the women up, maybe?

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