Along with a short piece from Julie Bindel, Marlyn Glen is interesting on the Scottish Parliament and GRR Bill.
https://frontlinewomen.substack.com/p/issue-2-the-frontline
'There is a great deal of good work being done – often cross-party - and some excellent MSPs, but we still need many more women to stand for councils and for parliament. '
'...there is a big difference between working with the best intentions and properly considering all of the consequences of legislation. On the 2004 GRA, I realise now that we were advised by groups who had hidden, long-term objectives to promote ‘trans rights’ at the expense of women, objectives of which we were totally unaware. Sadly, some current MSPs appear still not to understand this, while others wilfully ignore or actually agree with these misogynist aims. When I was an elected representative, I never dreamed we would see a time when men self-identifed as women, muscling into women’s refuges, sports, toilets and changing rooms, as well as being allowed into women’s jails and political positions.'
'It is essential that all political parties and civil society ensure that their processes protect everyone’s rights including, of course, women’s. Feminist ideas and analysis are crucial to this and we need to continue promoting them, while supporting each other.
It is hard work, and can be disheartening, but just as in 1999, there remains a great need for women to fight for women in the Scottish Parliament.'
Also an article on Margaret Nevison, suffragist and playwright, who:
'used her writing to highlight the many injustices of coverture.
Coverture was a Norman import. Anglo-Saxon women had the right to own property, but from the 11th century, a married woman was the chattel of her husband and property cannot own property. Everything a woman had - children, belongings, earnings - belonged to him. She had “no veto over or means of opposing” his decisions and if you’ve ever wondered why temperance was the earliest fight for women’s rights, this is why: when he drank away his wages every Friday, she couldn’t feed their children.'