Holyrood prison protest, Feb 9th

[PogueMahoneBoris]

Please join For Women Scotland and Keep Prisons Single Sex to protest the recent policy decisions that have illustrated the horrific situation in Scottish prisons for women - see below for details.
We have one message:
#NoMalesInFemaleJails, any compromises or half-baked policies will not provide safety for women.
Thursday 9th December at 11:30am. Please spread the word and we'll see you there!

Thanks. She has never done anything like this before and she usually prefers to hide in the background. That she is going is a measure of how strongly she feels about this issue.

Tell her I'm the middle aged tubby woman in the green jacket dressed for a dog walk (dog not here)🙂

Well that was good and not a single counter protester😱

Have the other side hired a PR company? First there were very few furries at SFW, now this. Bit late in the day if you ask me.

Really wish I could have been there today. Hope it's gone well and had a good turnout.

Oh ye cannie shove a mannie, unless he's got a fanny..

I'll get my coat

Fab day. Lovely to meet the doggies!

stolen from twitter .... some fabulous banners

Fabulous!
Thanks for sharing.
You women and dogs rock!

Hope all went well, have had to be out all day, but seen at least 2 newspapers have covered protest, and seem to have reported the issue quite(?) fairly.

Hope evening news will give more publicity.

Have you seen review of management of transgender prisoner statement. See thread www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4739091-scottish-prison-service-announcement

The placards... perfection 😂

BBC article on how sense is slowly creeping in, complete with picture from today

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-64586523

pity the article didn’t mention there was a protest today, just a line under the photo.

nice to meet up with some of you today! the dogs were disappointed not to be in the photo, as they’d been bathed specially.

The dogs were beautiful and very well behaved.

Aww, thank you!

I saw you & your lovely dogs, sorry didn’t get a chance to speak to speak to you.

All these articles are direct coverage of the protest and not just in Scottish papers - and some pics!

www.thenational.scot/politics/23310858.protests-held-holyrood-transgender-prisoners-row/

www.heraldscotland.com/news/national/23310687.campaigners-stage-protest-transgender-criminals-womens-prisons/

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/protesters-holyrood-nicola-sturgeon-scottish-government-b2279070.html

www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/campaigners-stage-protest-against-transgender-29176887

www.heraldscotland.com/politics/23311352.snp-msps-join-trans-prisoner-protest-outside-holyrood/

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/campaigners-stage-protest-against-transgender-criminals-in-womens-prisons/2014534912.html

Oh the independent has got itself in a bind.
And the problem of erasing people rears its ugly head. The protest wasn't about transgender criminals in women's prisons but specifically about male prisoners in female prisons. But now they've lumped the female ones in too with the notion of transgender criminals

I'm in shock I've finally found a reasonably unbiased BBC article about the debate 😱www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-64590421

me holding banner with Susan Smith of For Women Scotland

I put this on another thread, but it should be on here.

murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/2023/02/09/lucy-hunter-blackburn-speech-to-the-no-males-in-female-jails-demonstration-9-february-2023/

Thank you Susan, Annie and everyone else at the demonstration, our voices need to be heard!

Videos of the speakers now available:
forwomen.scot/11/02/2023/roundup-no-males-in-female-jails-demonstration/