In quite the turnaround Scottish Labour say the support Sandie Peggie, and would not support the GRR bill "knowing what they know now"!

[GargoylesofBeelzebub]

x.com/holyroodsources/status/1891851822278590711?s=46&t=AjtjSItRj-kgZwRzL-pdyQ

FFS. What is different now? It's not as if they weren't told over and over again what the consequences would be. 🙄

I know it isn't.
It's a question I'd like to know thw answer to though.

Genius let’s do it

Can someone explain what Pam Duncan Glancy has done? I think she's doing an okay job as shadow scottish education secretary

Jist a note that whilst Labour have their own shadow cabinet, it is the conservatives who are the second biggest party.

PDG has been very firmly TWAW all the way through the GRR Bill and beyond.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4729635-a-reminder-of-the-people-who-said-there-was-no-evidence

https://x.com/glasgowpam/status/1436418448419135500

'For the avoidance of doubt. Trans women are women, trans men are men. Trans rights are human rights. For as long as I’m an MSP, equality means equality, for everyone, without exception.'

8:57 PM · Sep 10, 2021

Which is why the BBC keep trying to angle to get funding from taxes instead.

The only plausible explanation is that the people who voted for the GRR were either malicious misogynists or halfwits.

Don’t know re TV and radio, but there’s now an article on the BBC website (Scotland news).

Yup. I wrote to all my MSPs . I did have some support but half of them said my concerns were invalid, blah , blah.

How many times can we say it? Maybe if they weren’t part of the ‘special’ group working for the praise shining down from the activists who were celebrated at the time, they might have listened. But I doubt it. It took the latest polling, once Labour had put their toe in the water, to give these pollies the newly found conviction.

What a fucking waste. What a fucking mess!!!

Don’t know re TV and radio, but there’s now an article on the BBC website (Scotland news).

This one?

Government accused of 'cowardice' in gender row www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgm17y4e3zro

Can someone explain what Pam Duncan Glancy has done? I think she's doing an okay job as shadow scottish education secretary but I haven't noticed anything she's said or done on gender ideology?

She was on the equalities committee during the GRR Bill and a driver (if not the driver) of Labour’s stance . She treated many of us appallingly and dismissed all concerns.

I just want to share a pic of the map of the current petition to repeal the GRA.

Scottish women have bloody had it with the nonsense.

An article in the Spectator on Labour's volte face farce

https://archive.ph/OxwPN

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/whats-behind-scottish-labours-gender-u-turn/

This bit

Yet that clatter you hear is the sound of jaws dropping violently at the audacity. Shock at this astonishing volte face by Sarwar will be most keenly felt by two of his MSPs, Claire Baker and Carol Mochan, who were forced to resign their frontbench posts in the Scottish parliament when they declined to support the Gender Recognition Reform Bill.

Scottish women have bloody had it with the nonsense.

As inded they had in 2022/23!

https://petitionmap.unboxedconsulting.com/?petition=628382

Nice to see they've peaked. Or at the very least, realised that this issue is political napalm.

I know this isn't the point of you showing that map @ArabellaScott but im actually curious about the tiny yellow bit in Scotland which is (I think) Aberdeenshire? Is that near Elgin/Fraser burgh/lossiemouth? Are there a lot of people there who support it? Or just don't know yet not to want to vote to repeal? It just stuck out compared to all the other red and dark red bits.

Tiny yellow bit? Elgin/Lossie/Fraserburgh are all dark red or red and pretty far apart?

North Aberdeen is orange. And further south there is a tiny white bit that is Montrose basin

Aberdeenshire North/Moray East - yes, Fraserburgh, Peterhead, Cullen, Buckie. Small towns involved largely in fishing, as a sweeping generalisation.

The numbers of signatures overall are so far relatively small, so it's a difference of a few dozen, I'd say! 20 signatories as opposed to maybe 80 in another constituency.

BUT! It just hit 10,000! In under a week. So it should be debated.

If you're looking at the map Iwanttoretire posted, that's an older petition. The numbers are very different (and boundaries have changed!).

I'm always really chuffed when I see Argyll&Bute in dark red.

https://www.glasgowpam.scot/post/pam-s-speech-on-the-gender-recognition-reform-scotland-bill

PDG's speech on the GRR Bill.

Evidence session from an anonymous person during the consultation of the GRR Bill. The anonymous person (I assume a woman) was discussing the needs of BME women for single sex spaces:

'An option of an enclosed, gender neutral toilet would be great.'

Pam Duncan-Glancy MSP: 'where would a trans woman go if she didn’t want to
use a gender neutral toilet because she was worried she may out herself?'

Edit to add link: https://www.parliament.scot/-/media/files/committees/equalities-human-rights-and-civil-justice-committee/gender-recognition-bill/ehrcj_20220607_private_evidence_session.pdf

It's the terfiest shire in all of Terf Island!