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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

is there a thread for FWS / Prisons?

741 replies

weegielass · 03/02/2026 10:21

Its live today on the scottish tribunals website and lasting for three days. Easy to join and good audio quality. I think that's marion on screen in the background. She seemed rather amused at the judge trying to understand the definitions.

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GinaWhoLikesADrink · 05/02/2026 15:08

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 05/02/2026 15:07

It looks like he's asking the judge to ignore the affidavits from the women who had been / were in prison Angry

But listen to the imaginary suicidal TiMs!!!

OpheliaWitchoftheWoods · 05/02/2026 15:09

ArabellaScott · 05/02/2026 15:06

Is he telling the judge how to do her job? Its inapprppriate to look at evidence?!

Ah, the RightThink trumps law, reality and everything line. Aka the 'it's ok to intentionally smash a policewoman's back with your mallet so long as you were signalling a really fashionable cause at the time' line.

Its good to see that tried; this really is the tipping point now. Are we going to have law or are we just going to be bullied and controlled by the most loudly disordered?

ArabellaScott · 05/02/2026 15:09

GinaWhoLikesADrink · 05/02/2026 15:08

But listen to the imaginary suicidal TiMs!!!

It only works if you invoke imaginary scenarios. So dont look at reality.

ickky · 05/02/2026 15:10

AO now thinking a grand an hour in really not enough. 😂

weegielass · 05/02/2026 15:11
Joe Biden Shut Up GIF by Election 2020

we need Joe...

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ArabellaScott · 05/02/2026 15:11

'Its magisterial and a relay race' 'what are the ministers to do, they act unlawfully whatever they do- if they contravene FWs or if they act incompatibly with rights of tg people' 'they accept sc without reservation but .. the practical realities'

EmpressDomesticatednottamed · 05/02/2026 15:11

SlackJawedDisbeliefXY · 05/02/2026 15:08

Vogon lawyering

I gather I have missed the halcyon days of reacting with a laugh emoji.
Which is a shame 😂

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 05/02/2026 15:12

Very confident to say that he doesn't think the SC judgement is relevant...

ArabellaScott · 05/02/2026 15:12

'Tale told by idiots, full of sound and fury'

Indeed.

OpheliaWitchoftheWoods · 05/02/2026 15:12

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 05/02/2026 15:07

It looks like he's asking the judge to ignore the affidavits from the women who had been / were in prison Angry

Well yes, you don't expect your furniture to start arguing back. Letting women be thought of as sentient, never mind human, would be really inconvenient!

I think SG have fucked themselves alone on the blatant lack of consideration of any other interests at all/full on inequality of treatment on the grounds of sex. Which is mad because there have been several judgments, the Darlington one alone, which did not go the wanted way because of this. But this is a belief system in which inconvenient evidence and reality is just disapparated with a wave of the wand.

ArabellaScott · 05/02/2026 15:12

Judge not happy with quotations. Stick to the law, she says.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 05/02/2026 15:14

I want to know which Shakespeare quote he used now!

OpheliaWitchoftheWoods · 05/02/2026 15:14

ArabellaScott · 05/02/2026 15:11

'Its magisterial and a relay race' 'what are the ministers to do, they act unlawfully whatever they do- if they contravene FWs or if they act incompatibly with rights of tg people' 'they accept sc without reservation but .. the practical realities'

Thereby yes, definitely, trying to re litigate the SCJ with a lower court to get a more liked answer. They dealt with this. 3rd spaces.

You cannot destroy women's rights to meet new perceived rights of men, and the right to be in a women's space and treated as a woman in all circumstances was found not to exist.

fanOfBen · 05/02/2026 15:15

I feel AO'N really had in mind the subsequent lines: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.

ickky · 05/02/2026 15:15

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 05/02/2026 15:14

I want to know which Shakespeare quote he used now!

It's Macbeth, his feelings after he hears of his wife's death.

EmpressDomesticatednottamed · 05/02/2026 15:16

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 05/02/2026 15:14

I want to know which Shakespeare quote he used now!

'Tale told by idiots, full of sound and fury'

This I think, from Arabella upthread

ArabellaScott · 05/02/2026 15:18

Chalk and cheese listening to these two.

'Re-introduction of Self ID' - yep.

GinaWhoLikesADrink · 05/02/2026 15:18

EmpressDomesticatednottamed · 05/02/2026 15:16

'Tale told by idiots, full of sound and fury'

This I think, from Arabella upthread

The next line would've been 'Signifying nothing' 😂

ArabellaScott · 05/02/2026 15:18

AON now racing through history of FWS' previous greatest hits.

ArabellaScott · 05/02/2026 15:21

'An attempt to retrofit the policy'

ArabellaScott · 05/02/2026 15:22

'Predicated on a presumptive right for a trans person to get into a woman's prison, but there is no case law to support this'

ArabellaScott · 05/02/2026 15:24

'Trans rights can be respected for males in the male prisons.' (Paraphrase)

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 05/02/2026 15:24

If ScotGov lose this case will they owe FWS even more money?

ArabellaScott · 05/02/2026 15:26

AON's saying 'trans rights' invoked in fact mean you can have pronouns respected and get womens clothes, make up, etc, (in prison), but nothing suggests there is a right to go to womens prison. Referring to the case of extradited Romanian transwoman.

ickky · 05/02/2026 15:27

@ItsAllGoingToBeFine I think FWS will have to get the Bailiff's to rock up at Holyrood before they get any money.