In quite the turnaround Scottish Labour say the support Sandie Peggie, and would not support the GRR bill "knowing what they know now"!

Dr Upton has fucked up majorly.
If I wasn't so angry I'd be thanking him.

Might have to work up to Anas Sarwar, though...

Scottish Labour's party conference in three days.

Let's get women's rights on the agenda.

x.com/ScottishLabour/status/1891759691509747878

I'll be sending a thank you to Jackie Baillie.

https://www.parliament.scot/msps/current-and-previous-msps/jackie-baillie

We seem to have acquired a lot of people who don't remember the disdain women and feminists in particular were held in by a lot of our new "champions" on the populist right, before they realised taking an interest in us might lead to votes. ''Twas ever thus.

Welcome to politics. And take the win - we'll need to keep watching them all like hawks and writing to our MPs anyway, no matter what party they're from.

Good news and frustrating in equal measure given that nothing has actually changed. But also helpful to have more left wing voices taking this view as helps to negate the “siding with Trump” challenge.

I think it’s great news - we don’t have to forgive their idiocy and refusal to listen when it mattered, but we can take the win now. I’d much rather these people reverse ferreted than doubled down. This article is worth a look:

https://www.holyrood.com/news/view,we-support-sandie-peggie-and-would-vote-against-gender-reforms-scottish-labour-leaders-say

To little to late, and we all know that if labour gets voted in next year (scot parliament election) they'll ditch all their promises and it'll be business as usual the same aa it is in Westminster

It's astonishing how much things have changed. I can't imagine them stating this a year ago. Progress I guess.

Oh, very good.

Although for some reason I keep wanting to call it a Rainbow Bridge
Why would that be I wonder?

Because one of their pet dogmas has died?

Has anyone heard this being reported yet? I don’t see anything on the BBC Scottish Politics yet

This.

They (SNP and Greens) voted against this motion (requiring a response from the Scottish government) and the presiding officer (Green list MSP but supposedly impartial) blocked selection of any and all question submitted by MSPs under topical questions, FMQs or the other question category that would have required the government to answer.

And Labour whipped their MSPs on the vote!

In his best Captain Renault voice, Anas Sarwar is shocked, shocked, to discover that dodgy men take advantage of loopholes to access women's spaces.

I'll take it, but I'd still like to have a few moments with Anas to ask him what the actual fuck he was thinking.

So….what are the things that Scottish Labour didn’t know back then that they’ve realised now?

What they did know back then…

…that allowing anyone to “self ID” as a member of the opposite sex also allows absolutely anyone to self-ID into opposite sex toilets and changing rooms.

What they apparently didn’t realise back then….

…that women are sick of being instructed to get their tits out for the lads

…that women are 50% of the electorate

…that everyone understands how much crap nurses have to deal with in the workplace, and their sympathy is with the nurses, not with 6ft 28yo married men demanding workplace access to nurses in their underwear

I'm not in Scotland so could I ask those of you who are and who intend to write to also remind them of the ongoing 'queering' that's going on in the schools, and that Alexandria Stewart, a transwoman who's had no genital surgery, is in the women's wing of HMP Greenock with his female partner, a child murderer Nyomi Fee (another female prisoner is currently being prosecuted for misgendering him).

Lily Madigan.

He claimed he could get pregnant!

I wonder if she’s a mumsnetter!

Oh yes. I don't think they care enough about women to see these things for themselves without donning the glasses of public opinion to make sure they're seeing it right.

Still, you'd hope a man calling himself a biological woman as his defence in an employment tribunal, would make even the most thick skinned of politicians sit up.

I have to say, even though we've all heard batty TRA's claim it, seeing it up there, neon lit with fireworks all around it, really was quite spectacular.

editing to add, especially from a bloody doctor! 🤣

Have the Labour Party ever change their internal definition of what a woman is?

I cannot remember the name of the transwoman who became a woman's officer but you know the one I mean.

Could that happen now?

Okay. Westminster are known to road test policy in Scotland.

What is most likely to get Labour - the UK government with all the cards right now - to side with women?

I'm currently in shock about the phrase witch hunt being used by Tess White. The Dr with the flaming pants has made a serious difference but not how he wanted

i'm all for women writing to their MPs asking some questions, perhaps mentioning Carol Mochan and Claire Baker and asking if they are up for legislation if the supreme court rules the wrong way.

You can remind them they were told without rubbing their noses in it.

I'm sure it would be lovely to be the forgive and forget type, but I'm not, and I'll never forgive or forget how utterly prepared and willing most politicians nationally were to chuck women onto the pyre of righteousness lit by the trans rights activists.

They were going to stand in front of the pyre and watch us burn.

They can cross all the bloody Bridges they like, I wont stand in their way, but I'm not going to thank the fuckers.