Scotland. We need your help.

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The Sandyford (equivalent of the Tavistock) is still alive and kicking, dispensing puberty blockers and cutting off girls' breasts. The Scottish government, plus Labour and Lib Dems are pushing through self ID. Ribbons are a hate crime.

We have devolved NHS and Police. Sturgeon and Harvie are desperate to be more 'progressive' and show how different they are.

We need help. Letters. Twitter campaigns. Speakers. We have amazing groups including For Women Scotland but we need everyone to help us stop this nonsense. Today, for example:

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/psychiatrist-pleads-to-shut-down-sandyford-gender-clinic-in-glasgow-stzgzc5tk?shareToken=ae9fbd10d91f4a64ae843edf4179013f.

David Bell pleading for the Sandyford to be shut down.

Not sure what specifically we need but others will, I hope, advise.

Jesus, I was about to say voting Tory is our only hope and I'm not a natural Tory. Desperate indeed. Lots of votes for the taking if anyone is interested in what women think...

The effect of the Marion Miller case has been chilling - many women are afraid to say what they think on this subject and are now silent. I think if a party were to support women they would be surprised at the amount of votes they could gain.

In a recent piece, James Kirkup finished with these observations:

Allison Bailey’s willingness to go against senior members of her own small and powerful profession over such a contentious issue, required extraordinary courage. The same can and should be said of Maya Forstater, who was also operating as a contractor in a small, well-connected and politicised sector.

Both of those women might have had quieter, easier lives if they’d folded and let their cases drop. Knowing a bit about the risks and pressures involved, I’m pretty sure that if I found myself in a comparable situation, I’d give up and back down. I am not brave: I understand the silence of all those prominent people I know who have stayed quiet on this issue over the years.

But Allison Bailey is brave. So is Maya Forstater. Everyone is better off for their bravery. I hope those who remained silent while those women fought on will now find their own voices.

www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-bravery-of-allison-bailey

It can't continue to fall to women to do this. Particularly as we're likely to be vulnerable by virtue of families (the target of action by particular figures are Ceri Black and Marion Millar who both have young children) and fewer financial and other resources and the plausibility of being in occupations/jobs with little employment protection.

I agree. I recall that many of the suffragettes were from middle class backgrounds where they didn't have the same social pressures on them.

I think the middle class suffragettes probably had more pressure about propriety etc... and there were lots of working class suffragettes who came from union organising. Jessie Stephens worked as a maid and when she was sent out on errands by her madam would pour acid into post boxes....

Truss is positioning to dilute devolution, if that helps.