Nicola Sturgeon on transphobia in The Scotsman

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www.scotsman.com/news/people/nicola-sturgeon-transphobia-is-a-big-problem-in-scotland-and-people-who-disagree-are-not-paying-attention-3186475

She really is trying to lose women's votes.

"as a lifelong feminist" I dunno, but every time I hear that phrase I think if you have to go so heavy on reassuring people that you are something it's because your actions say otherwise.

And the First Minister's actions certainly have told us otherwise. No feminist would remain silent when female party colleagues and fellow politicians receive sustained abuse and harassment, including rape and death threats, for the crime of standing up for women's rights.

Doesn't matter how much you may disagree with those women, this is too ubiquitous a problem to ignore for any feminist, and especially one in her position - women being bullied into silence by men for speaking up for women's rights.

'People who disagree are not paying attention'....

Oh dear. Whose voices have you been intentionally blocking to avoid having to pay attention and listen to why they disagree? Heard of DARVO Nicola?

Woman broadcasts from sound proof echo chamber

...as a lifelong feminist I consider it proportionate and reasonable to place male sex offenders in enclosed spaces with vulnerable women.

Nah mate, just nah.

Just when I thought I couldnt despise her any more than I already do..

Sturgeon is making Salmond look like a reasonable option - you have to be dismal to achieve that.

So, what has she done for feminism, being one of the most powerful women in the country? If she's been a 'lifelong' feminist, I expect she has a good solid history of advocating, awareness raising, working to help other women, yes?

Or is she just a 'feminist' in the sense that she's happy to take advantage of the gains made by other women who sacrificed their time/safety/reputations in order for her to have the freedom/right/ability to become a successful, powerful woman?

And she is happy to ignore rape and death threats if she feels the women on the receiving end are a threat to her professional reputation. Happy to dismiss the concerns raised by so many women. Happy to patronise us with a 'consultation' that is in fact intended to 'convince' us of her preconceived outcome.

Sturgeon is a skilled politician. But I wasn't aware feminism was something she actively supported.

Sturgeon is making Salmond look like a reasonable option - you have to be dismal to achieve that.

Aye. Dismal is about right.

And this

I think if you have to go so heavy on reassuring people that you are something it's because your actions say otherwise

Aye. Lifelong feminist my arse. I’ll bet she cant even claim it for a week.

Gloria Steinem: We must fight against the all-powerful nefarious women who co-opt “the feminist label” to spread hatred and division by suggesting sound policy alternatives, pointing out inconsistencies in the law, and imagining they have the right to be heard without a flurry of life-disrupting rape and death threats. And by the way, some other long-debunked random racist nonsense.

Nicola Sturgeon: Hold my beer…

Can April Fools’ Day please just be over, already?

Off of her wiki:

'Sturgeon has also campaigned on women's rights and gender equality, and is a self-described feminist; she has argued that Scotland's feminist movement is not simply symbolic, but "sends a powerful signal about equality".[113] She has hailed Scottish feminist economist Ailsa McKay as one of her inspirations.[114]'

No references to those campaigns. I would be interested to see info on them.

Oh, here is something.

A feminist campaign that is a whole 5 hours old.

www.heraldscotland.com/news/19205086.nicola-sturgeon-womens-health-plan-feature-nhs-recovery-strategy/

“There are many women, and I understand this, who see that as some kind of threat to women's rights and what I would say is that I absolutely, as a life-long feminist, would never support anything that I thought was a danger or a risk to women's rights.”

What a fucking liar you are, Nicola.

And an article I can't access, unfortunately.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nicola-sturgeon-isnt-the-feminist-shed-have-us-all-believe-p0qssjvwh

Funny, that Sturgeon is talking about feminism, isn't it? Almost like she's noticed she's managed to give half the population the fucking rage just weeks before an election.

She's really not any sort of feminist.

There's an amazing feminist movement in Scotland from what I can see. She's just not any part of it.

Sturgeon is a narcissist. As is Salmond. Two cheeks of the same arse, as they say up here. I doubt she gives a shit about feminism - she wouldn’t have chucked women’s rights under the bus if she did.
She is just trawling for woke cookies and trying to look more progressive and trendy than England.
I hope her latest anti women policies, following her party’s failures on education, business, health, agriculture and the economy, will at last persuade people to stop voting for the SNP and their ridiculous suicide plan of independence.

“But what I don't say and I've never said, is that anybody who is raising concerns is by definition transphobic, because I don't believe that is the case.”

Thanks Arabella, I missed that Times article.

Archive of it: archive.ph/sV02P

Ah, perfect, thanks Betsy.

Scottish women are very strong; they've had to be over the years and they've taken their strength to many parts of the world- this horrible excuse for a women needs to be discarded as you would discard a disloyal friend. She is no friend of women anywhere in the world.

Loathsome woman. Charmless, dictatorial, patronising, no friend of anyone.

She is such an idiot. Chasing votes - but does she not realise that twitter and Facebook isn’t full of voters?

Feminist? Aye right!

She’s not a feminist & she doesn’t give a fuck about the women & girls of Scotland

‘If she’s a feminist, my arse is grass’ (is that the expression - I seem to remember it from my youth)