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But what did chill me, and did stir some actual fear for hos I and the others might fare on Pride was the speeches given by MSPs 11/
from the top of the open top bus. In particular the words of Patrick Harvey, Green MSP, where he felt the need to apologise for the democratic workings of Parliament, and the decision taken this week to put the breaks on GRA reform u rill the full due consideration and 12/
further deliberation by a broad range of groups affected by these reforms and importantly the conflation of sex and gender that has infested our policy making.He said "I am sorry that this parliament very recently was used as a platform for transphobic hatred and bigotry"
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I was dismayed to find out later that my sisters who joined the March were 18/
harassed by marchers behind them, had bells rung and whistles painfully blown in their ears and even had a missile thrown at them in the shape of a juice bottle, that fortunately missed them but unfortunately hit a tourist photographing the parade. They left the march 19/
of their own volition. Unwilling to make their selves a target for hate any longer, and fearing that the bells and whistles might turn into blows or worse.
It was obvious this would happen. The marchers had been well and truly whipped up into a righteous anger by our MSPs and 20/
others who spoke from that open-top bus at the pre march rally. The rally where Lesbians were intentionaly blocked in and made invisible. Where women were told they were bigots for standing up for Female Rights and expecting our politicians to do the same.