Green councillor (Glasgow) cleared after calling gender-critical people ‘Nazis’

yes, but I couldn't make head nor tail of what it meant.

@notinscotland

They were mocking the Carrollian nonsense of the ruling, not what you said.

Sorry, not sure what you are referring to as "that". If you mean my post, it is in English.

Thanks for all the information you've posted regarding this Suzexu and for standing up against this nasty misogynist.

It makes me want to weep that Gallagher is being facilitated and protected by the institutions that are supposed to be impartial, fair and represent all of us including actual women.

I complained to ethical standards originally & the hearing was held by www.standardscommissionscotland.org.uk

The hearing was held by the Standards Commission Scotland & they should be publishing a statement with the full written decision next week. I have more info & am in contact with some of the other people who attended LWS who complained. After the hearing one of the organisers told us it was unusual for members of the public to attend a hearing & I'm very glad we did. What was presented at the hearing & the decision made following the statements from the commissioner & respondents solicitor needs challenging in some way. I'll post a link to the statement when it's published in case anyone wants to contact the SCS about it to complain.

www.ethicalstandards.org.uk

He was at the protest for Filia. A lot of people complained about that too, but they didn't uphold our complaints.

I attended the hearing with a few others (which was crazy, with the usual lies & gaslighting) & we were told it's unusual to appeal. Doesn't mean there can't be one though.

Oh yes, Gallagher thinks defining women as adult humans of the female sex is transphobic & wants FILIA to include males. I mean, no matter that that would exclude many women, centring males is paramount.

Gallagher also seems to believe humans can change sex & thus doesn’t understand that feminists are absolutely concerned about MVAWG - & said M includes TW: they aren’t being singled out for being trans, they’re receiving the same treatment as the rest of their sex. The fact they wish to be treated as members of the opposite sex is immaterial.

Gallagher thinks being photographed protesting FILIA is “intimidation” - ditto people shouting back at the protestors. The literal sound system & hulking great male humans [of assorted gender identities] roaring at women as they were on their way into the venue? Just grand. (As for the article author’s take on what happened with the venue…)

Gallagher was indeed shouting at women going into the Filia concert. It was and is a disgraceful way for a councillor to behave. Women's rights are not hateful. Gallagher is the hateful one.

Pretty sure Gallagher was amongst the protesters shouting abuse at women going to FILIA in Glasgow last year.

It's more than a little perturbing to know that an elected councillor in my city appears to be such a hate filled and badly informed misogynist.

Well. good on her. I am also anti-trans rights when what they mean is invading women's spaces, sports, prizes, prisons, intimate care, lavatories and changing rooms, because doing that is not a right, it is asking for a privilege. Damn right I am against trans privilege.
I give not a toss that men dress up in minis and put on inappropriate make-up, but stay out of my spaces and away from my grand-daughters.

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She does not invite Nazis. And she is not anti-trans. She is pro-women's rights and for the continuation of sex-segregated spaces for changing rooms and public lavatories, sports, prizes, refuges, hospital wards and so forth as well as supporting the right of women in care and disabled women to have their intimate care carried out by a woman (not a man in a frock). She also supports the right of women prisoners not to be forced to share their prison, and even their cell with a man, however he identifies. You cannot identify into womanhood - and being a woman is not a costume, make-up, flicking your hair etc.
It is not KJK or any of the women who support these rights who are hitting people, shouting people down, threatening people (women) with rape and death. That is the trans allies.

I’m so sorry, but the idea of some time-travelling Nazis rocking up at LWS event has really tickled me - they’d be so utterly horrified by it all.

On a related note this is by far the best article out there about The Actual Nazis & their treatment of trans people. I admit I have a soft spot for Past & Present as a Journal (& who doesn’t love an Open Access article?!) but this is a brilliant illustration of the incoherency of the Nazi treatment of the trans population.

"some of us are thinking", some of you need to think hard and better, because if this is an example of your thinking your clearly not doing it right... try better.

He's not one of us, he's just a bloke who inserted himself somewhere he doesn't belong. What he thinks/says is not our responsibility. Are you really saying you believe that women who are critical of gender as the tool of oppression of women are hand in glove with Nazis, who believe women should be circumscribed by feminine gender roles?

Far right activists know there is a working class - socialists know there is a working class. Perhaps socialists should be worried about their association with the far right.

Edited for grammar.

Using his accusations about DQSH as cover? That type of behaviour has never happened anywhere, has it?

KJK isn't a Nazi, doesn't like Nazis, doesn't want them at her rallies, has told them they're not welcome. Why do people keep repeating the utter rubbish that she's in any way Nazi adjacent?

It's absolutely desperate. And I don't care what a bunch of Kiwi ideological zealots have to say about it, they are also propagating untruths about her.

side-note- that's what "neo" means in "neo-Nazi". To distinguish modern followers of Nazi ideology from the WW2 era.

Perhaps you'd better use that term then. They aren't "actual Nazis" because that was a historical movement that no longer exists.

It's exactly what they're saying. Just like the "it's not rape if the woman comes from a more powerful social group than the man" reasoning. It's outrageous.

It's almost like it's saying that because they're a transgender woman, they merit further latitude in their public pronouncements than an 'ordinary' woman (or, indeed, man) would receive.

side-note- that's what "neo" means in "neo-Nazi". To distinguish modern followers of Nazi ideology from the WW2 era.