Maggie Chapman MSP slanders Supreme Court

Listening a second time. Chapman is talking about the Supreme Court and the Equality Act through the lens of institutional power structures, which can be a useful tool for understanding phenomena like no one in the Met doing anything about their misogynist officers until Wayne Couzins murdered Sarah Everard.

It's instructive that she attempts to apply that analysis to a piece of legislation intended to counter institutional power by explicitly granting rights (for example, to operate services and freely associate) to marginalised groups. The unspoken axiom underpinning her attack on the SC (and the whole apparatus of Parliament and Government, based on her clarification that she thinks that laws created in an unjust society are inherently unjust) is that the EA is unjust because it gives women, who are marginalised on the basis of sex, undeserved rights to single-sex spaces and services.

Which tells you that she's just another transmaiden misogynist, one who is willing to attack the very rule of law to throw women under the bus.

https://www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/meeting-of-the-parliament-april-22-2025

The story is in the Times now.

https://www.thetimes.com/article/7c78d249-18b8-4f2f-9f99-61fb91879309?shareToken=790f16f370910957bfc9d7d851f39a40

The thing is, I imagine she is someone who was angry when the daily mail ran that “enemies of the people” headline about the judges. She can’t have it both ways. It can’t be “don’t attack the judiciary” when it’s things you agree with, and “they’re hateful bigots” when you don’t. (I include the DM in that criticism as I bet they’ll be criticising Chapman for this despite their previous headline).

Obviously she’s entitled to work to change the law. That’s totally fine.

[brief diversion from thread follows]

It's a wonderful gift to be pithy. My husband used to be a senior IT person. When something went wrong with the system either he or his colleague would have to email all staff to keep them updated. His colleague would send out an email something on these lines:

Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of everyone in the IT department I would like to apologise for the delays you have all been experiencing with your email this afternoon. This was due to [insert complicated technical explanation] which we have now managed to fix with the help of our suppliers. We are confident that everything is now back up and running, but as ever, please don't hesitate to get in touch if you need any further assistance.
Best wishes,
Lon Gwinded

My husband's email would read:

All - email is now back up and running as of 1600.
T. Erse

Same at home! It's great. I'm the waffler.

[diversion over]

'I was sad and cross for men that it turns out women have rights, which is totes mean and inconvenient to men, so I got emotionally incontinent and unprofessional and said a lot of hyperbolic, unjustified crap that doesn't affect my duties as an MP cos reasons, and I'm not sorry. Vote for me.'

Good grief.

Is this available to watch/listen to anywhere? Thanks

This.

It wasn't tragic for women. Learn to cope/reframe trauma/educate self/die mad etc was perfectly appropriate to tell them. Why is it tragic when it happens to men?

That's worse! A rogue judge can in theory be impeached, restoring integrity to the court system. She's attacked the integrity of the Supreme Court itself.

Oh dear, Maggie Personperson didn’t realise laws are made by politicians not judges. Every day is a learning day.

Ha, whereas I grew up in a large talkative family and dp and the dc can also talk seemingly without ever taking breath, so I learned to say what I want to say with as few words as possible to get into the rare gaps.

I don’t see how that’s better.

As I said on another thread, Scottish Greens has made it impossible to vote for them because of their focus on gender nonsense rather than actual environmental issues. Sad to say that Maggie Chapman is a big part of the problem and we didn’t even vote for her.

Ah @Igneococcus summarised that far more succinctly than me! Always giving too much detail, that's my weak point 😆

Ever the problem with the Greens is how amateur they are. I think this is worth remembering.

I'm glad you asked that @Conxis . It took me a while at first to get it 😂

Basically her second name is Chapman and she doesn't believe in words that correctly define our binary sex classifications. Therefore someone changed her last name to make it gender neutral to keep Maggie happy. I'm sure she appreciates the gesture 😁

Thank you 😂

She’s just been speaking in the Scottish parliament session on the Supreme Court ruling this afternoon. Of course it was all about how worried and frightened trans people are today.
Some of the MSPs spoke pretty harsh words about her behaviour at the weekend

Chap=person and man=person, both non-gendered

Why us she referred to as Maggie Personperson?

As someone noted earlier Maggie PP is a list MSP which means no-one actually voted for her. I very much doubt she would be elected if she had to get votes for herself as her public speaking is so poor.

Pretty much par for the course when it comes to Scottish politics.

If only they had spent the last 10 years campaigning for better toilet provision using arguments based in reality rather than fantasy.

The number of politicians and lawyers who have shown in the last few days that they don't know how the law works is rather staggering.

If Maggie Chapman has broken the law then surely there needs to be an investigation by Holyrood being and MSP and by the university of Dundee as its newly elected rector to determine whether her actions and comments are ok.

Stella Maris the elected rector of St Andrews University was removed from her position recently for making inflammatory and antisemitic comments.