Parliamentary committee Joanna Cherry SNP MP & QC challenge to Twitter representative about abuse of women / 'terf' / why sex is not protected characteristic

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Human Rights Committee - EXTRACT
Wednesday 1 May 2019 Meeting started at 3.16pm, ended 4.52pm

parliamentlive.tv/event/index/0364bfc3-5adc-4aef-99bd-48c68daacc38?in=15:27:30&out=15:50:30

More and more respect growing for Joanna Cherry. Women who stand up for women and stand their ground, we need a whole lot more of them in politics.

Also exposing absolutely beautifully that any woman standing up for current law and women's rights is now 'transphobic'.

Joanna received a threat that was serious enough for the police to be in attendance while she conducted her Saturday surgery.

In the light of that, will Police Scotland now take time out to reflect on the one-sided nature of threats to women standing up for women? Will Twitter now accept the evidence that women who stand up for women are a target for hatred and serious threats of violence?

More importantly, will female MPs show some solidarity with Joanna Cherry, an MP who stood up for THEM? I won't hold my breath.

They honestly can't even stop themselves posting abuse can they?

So very masculine of them.

HeraldScotland
@heraldscotland
Today's front page of the Herald on Sunday

twitter.com/heraldscotland/status/1124901535543119874

Joanna Cherry QC MP
@joannaccherry
More Joanna Cherry QC MP Retweeted HeraldScotland
I look forward to my male colleagues quoted in this article being equally condemnatory of the vile misogyny on @twitter which has so escalated that I had to have a police escort at my constituency surgery after I called it out at @HumanRightsCtte #onlineabuse

She's also commented on the Swansea protest where Stonewall called the police on lesbians holding banners saying lesbians don't have penises, saying it's "Orwellian".

Front page of tomorrow's herald has something about Cherry being given police protection after death threats. I can't read the detail of why, but worth looking for tomorrow

archive.fo/93Rtx

This seems to be the article in question.

The article was put online and was then deleted (possibly online before it was due to as its front page tomorrow)

The abuse on social media directed at Ms Cherry followed an evidence session of the Joint Committee on Human Rights[JCHR] at Westminster as it undertook an investigation into democracy and freedom of speech. During the session the SNP MP questioned representatives from Facebook and Twitter about the abuse of women MPs and women more generally on social media.

This later led to what Ms Cherry’s office described as a “large number of unpleasant tweets”. But one particularly caused alarm, which was different from the others and could have been regarded as a direct threat to the MP’s health and safety and confirmed her whereabouts at a certain time and place.

Advice was sought from the Metropolitan Police and Police Scotland, which subsequently interviewed Ms Cherry’s constituency staff and provided the protection from two uniformed officers “as a precaution”.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/07/twitter-misogynists-women-public-life-social-media-abuse

Twitter is gamer gate magnified.

I took the decision to leave other social media and just stick to Mumsnet about 10 years ago PRECISELY because of the abuse and culture elsewhere which was so hateful to women.

It was just not worth the mansplaining, abuse or harassment.

I read twitter but do not post.

Something has to change.

That Suzanne Moore article is great, thanks for posting Ewe

I wonder how the lefty guardian readers square that with their support for toxic transactivism

Destiny, Cherry is a senior advocate here in Scotland (barrister equivalent) - she’s a QC as well as MP. It shows we benefit from skilled MPs who engage with seemingly unpopular (if actually a view held by the quiet majority) issues affecting disadvantaged groups. I’m not fussed if they’re male or female as long as they do these things. I mean Penny Mordaunt is a female MP...

Kate Coley 🦉
@Kateco
Is the tide turning? Someone reported my tweet presumably for telling the truth and Twitter found NO VIOLATIONS. And here's me, a woman. Perhaps they're frightened I'm trans.

Ooh I like "born, not worn"

I also like this single ray of sunshine in the darkness that is usually Twitter mods.

I know what hope leads to though, so I will watch this space.

Oh dear, Penis News.

Last week ⁦*@PinkNews⁩ published a defamatory story about me. I’m pleased to have secured a full apology, a donation to a charity of my choice - @UKLGIG* - & full payment of my legal costs. Their apology and my statement are here. t.co/APLzed4bLr

twitter.com/joannaccherry/status/1146454080937758720?s=19

Good for her. Penis News are a disgrace.