All transwomen are to be moved out of Scottish female prisons today. 🙌🏻

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https://x.com/forwomenscot/status/2069385340159225981?s=46&t=AjtjSItRj-kgZwRzL-pdyQ

Scotgov will not appeal and the current transgender policy has been withdrawn. At long bloody last!!

But it did get to eat one of the mice, right? So that's still kind of a problem.

The whole business was typical of the owner of the snake not being prepared to pay attention to what was going on.

Yes, one of the mice found it a problem; I am unsure how much of a problem having been eaten in turn was for the snake, but it did get taken to the vet about it.

I only found out quite recently (possibly on MN) that the non-conviction police data on an enhanced dbs check is only updated every 9 months? This could include warnings, fixed penalties, arrests and/or investigation but no charges etc. So convictions are updated weekly but non convictions on every 9 months.

I do think the whole system needs updating and bringing in to the 21st century!

Have you wondered why women are housed separately from male inmates?

Go on. Take your time.

And once you've got that, extra points for explaining why it's up to women to compensate for male violence.

Also, you have to put down 5 years of addresses. I was dealing with PhD students at the start of their courses, often from overseas. When a DBS comes back within a week, I do not believe that the overseas police forces were asked to check. At all.

I genuinely do not know how anyone has the patience this week, I really don't.

We could be here a while.

This.

TIMs problems are not for biological women to solve either. Maybe sort out the segregation in men's prisons.

Great example of the sort of misinformation spread by TRAs.

The awful thing is seeing people you know to be intelligent, and in general quite sensible, being caught up in this horrendous herd mentality and starting to mouth the slogans without apparently having thought about them at all.

Someone I had previously thought quite bright recently told me off for saying I wasn't keen on JK Rowling's writing but failing to say she was an evil anti-trans whatever I was meant to say, and loudly and angrily informed me that I ought to shut up because she was using her money to try to destroy all trans people. wtaf? Clearly very short on information, long on propaganda.

And let me guess: you're not going to explain how anyone missed the point. We'll just have to mysteriously figure it out...

No, I'm answering for myself.

Are you going to explain how we missed @MummyWillow1 's point?

There's a post in site stuff asking if MN reported the doxxer to the police.

They say no, they've just removed the posts and banned the poster.

I think some people (quite a lot of people actually) are short on research time and like to farm this out to someone else (social media, their boss, their teenager, whoever).

I also think a lot of people like to belong to something (cause, group), and as long as they feel happy in their chosen belonging, they don't question things.

Or at least, that's what Generous Me is telling myself today. Ask me again tomorrow.

Oh hello Seethlaw, hello CuriousQueer - small world, isn't it?😀
I addressed MummyWillow1's point not once but twice - I repeated my post as she seemed not to have seen it first time round, which was early in the thread.

Ha ha, how do you think I knew to tell you not to bother with them :P ? I ran into them on a couple of threads, and everywhere they just insulted people, said we were wrong about things, and evaded explaining how. Not sure why they are even bothering to post at all, but heh, it's their time, they can waste it however they want.

If they had a coherent argument, you'd think they'd use it. Occam's razor says.....

Are you able to explain what mummy willow's point is? It's far better if you or they could expand on it for us.

Oh did somebody somehow focus on women, instead of men?

Sound the alarm! Someone has failed to prioritise men's feelings!

howling

Deja vu... I could have sworn we'd only yesterday had insults targeting women's speech.

It does flag this in guidance.