nicola sturgeon is facing more pushback from the UK press for hating the tories than the tories are getting for crashing the pound and pushing children into poverty and starvation
Imane Khelif
Dutee Chand
Caster Semenya
Annet Negesa
Anyone noticing a common thread amongst the female athletes who have been falsely subjected to Transphobic attacks and allegations?
Made a very silly mistake and confused photos of Annet Negesa and Christina Mboma in the fourth slide because they were both mentioned in the same article. Correct photo below!
Point still stands though as Christina is another athlete attacked with transphobic allegations
My question is re-puberty blockers
Will they also be banned for treating precocious puberty? endometriosis? cancer? PCOS?
because if not, then this is not decision made to protect the health of safety of trans children, it is an attempt to eliminate them
Humza Yousaf was born in Rutherglen
Douglas Murray was born in London
I wonder on what basis he’s decided that Humza Yousaf “infiltrated” scottish politics?
Murray is just an Eton-educated EDL Thug
Nicola Sturgeon is a Real Leader
Her Pandemic Leadership was praised as "impressive" by the Director General of WHO
All while she was dealing with misogynistic abuse, a biased press, and an uncooperative English Government
#IStandWithNicolaSturgeon
I think this is gonna set a dangerous legal precedent. Workers should not be forced to work for people whom they feel to be bigoted or hateful.
This cannot and will not end well.
BREAKING: Comedy club The Stand has U-turned on the cancellation of an event with MP Joanna Cherry, after taking legal advice.
The firm says it 'publicly and unreservedly apologises to Ms Cherry'.
Humza Yousaf: Please apply for a license to continue running your very profitable *largely unregulated* business
STL landlords: this is basically ethnic cleansing
Labour really can’t be trusted on LGBT rights anymore
@ScottishLabour
why is one of your MSPs contributing to an attack on a transgender woman started by Oli London of all people?
Is he gonna be your next parliamentary candidate? 🥀🤮
I’ve always felt quite lucky to be gay in Scotland but the Clapham stabbings and the abuse of Patrick Harvie make me feel quite scared actually
The mainstreaming of anti-LGBTQ extremism by the media and the political establishment is going to kill people
Absolutely disgusting to see a bisexual politician abused on the streets of Scotland like this. All the progress we’ve made as LGBTQ+ people used as fodder for a hateful culture war.
Solitary with
@patrickharvie
who has always stood up for LGBTQ+ people in good times and bad.
The findings of the Cass Review must be implemented in Scotland.
This is important for staff, the young people with gender dysphoria & their families.
The SNP Gov’t must be transparent & give a statement about implementation of the Cass review & the use of puberty blockers.
I hate that AUOB genuinely could have been a force for unity within the independence movement, but now it chooses to parrot ALBA conspiracy theories and do almost nothing else
With his family being trapped in Gaza, it really shows a great deal of strength from Humza Yousaf in being so dignified, principled, and statesmanlike through this crisis
standing with victims of violence and opposing Israeli war crimes is the moral and humanitarian thing to do
First Minister
@HumzaYousaf
attended a service of prayer and solidarity last night with Scotland’s Jewish community.
Expressing sorrow for those who lost loved ones, he said
@scotgov
stands in solidarity with all communities in Scotland suffering the loss of innocent life.
Absolutely f*cking not
Banning carpooling for under 25s are you serious? The contempt Labour have for young people is staggering
Also as someone who’s ridden in many a car driven by a pensioner, I think you’re targeting the wrong group of drivers
@kimleadbeater
's Graduate Driving License bill will have its second reading on May 17th.
I fully support this bill and
@owe65332
with her petition to push for Graduate Driving Licenses.
You can find the petition below:
Just gonna remind everyone that gender Self-ID has been the law of the land for Single Sex spaces for 13 years and we’ve not had any problems with it
Also, we use Self-ID for Disability, Race, Sexuality, Religion, etc
Anti Self-ID is just culture war nonsense
Female MSPs were more likely to vote for the GRR than male MSPs.
Women support trans rights more than men do.
Scottish Women’s Aid, Engender, and Rape Crisis Scotland all supported the GRR.
So why does the media continue to push the narrative of Women’s Rights vs Trans rights?
Hot Take:
You aren’t entitled to run an unregulated hotel out of a residential property, being asked to apply for a license is actually a very moderate and reasonable request
NEW: Airbnb and short-term let owners are outside the Scottish Parliament protesting against new licensing legislation.
One has been spotted holding a sign calling Holyrood a 'Pogrom Parliament'.
One speaker outside Holyrood just reading out the names of politicians while the crowd boos.
At the mention of Nicola Sturgeon a man shouts “jail the bitch”.
Tensions a little high.
Hey
@ScottishLabour
… the absolute gall of you to criticise the Scottish Government for delaying their Free School Meal plans due to food inflation, when your national party is actively opposed to free school meals full stop!
#Hypocrisy
🚨 BREAKING: Labour has ruled out introducing free school meals for all children.
Labour's party conference passed a motion in 2022 committing the party to introduce free school meals, but the leadership has now firmly ruled it out, saying: "We have no plans to implement it."
🚨 NEW: Labour says it will NOT repeal the Section 35 order that blocked Scotland's trans rights law.
Shadow Scotland Minister Michael Shanks said: "I think it is important as part of the devolution process that we recognise that there were specific things that were reserved"
It’s sad to say, but being a person of colour in the public eye is itself an act of bravery in the current political climate
say whatever you want about him time in office, but you can’t say that Humza Yousaf is not a brave, dignified man of integrity
'I have no other home than this one, I never will, I never have.'
Humza Yousaf spoke about the impact of racial slurs he has faced during his time in office.
Live updates:
Joanna Cherry is not the only Lesbian to exist, and supporting Transgender rights does not make someone anti-gay
Please may i refer you to Mhairi Black and Jenny Gilruth ( among others )
I’ve just voted
#HumzaForScotland
🏴
Humza is the only candidate for LGBT Rights, for Independence, for the Environment, for Workers, for Affordable Housing, for Public Services, for Reproductive Autonomy, for Public Ownership, & for much more!
#VoteHumza
💛🎗️
I'm disappointed seeing numerous nominally pro-indy accounts (some of whom i follow) calling gay people deviants and promoting far right conspiracies.
Imagine dedicating yourself to freedom and democracy for Scotland, but only for the Scots who fit your narrow worldview ☹️
The idea that the right to freedom of speech trumps the right of workers to withhold labour is both dangerous for unions, and it also will allow for far right groups like the SFP and the Patriotic Alternative to to force venues to serve them against their principles 😔
Dundee isn’t a Russell Group but it’s one of the best universities in the world for Dentistry and Medicine
Neither is Aberdeen, but it has some of the best courses in the UK for finance and for engineering
Not even St Andrews is a Russell Group
Russell Group ≠ Everything 🤷
the UK is the great defender of Irish people and of Catholics
Just don’t look at;
The Troubles
The Irish Famine
The creation of the Anglican Church
or any other point in Ireland’s history
NEW: I asked SNP leadership candidate Kate Forbes what she was apologising for if she stands by remarks to
@Channel4News
that she would have voted against same-sex marriage.
Ms Forbes says she wants to talk about issues that 'really matter'.
Gordon Brown accuses SNP ministers of wasting money on separate social security agency
The former PM said Social Security Scotland was set up 'for status reasons':
the way that the times is twisting this story is a joke
ALL members who left the party will not be allowed to vote in the leadership election. This is not about banning one group of people from voting, it's about stopping non members from influencing an internal election! 🙄
SNP members who quit in protest at Nicola Sturgeon’s controversial transgender policy will be prohibited from voting for her replacement as leader if they try to rejoin the party
I beg *certain* Americans to understand that just because other countries do not follow the American Standard does make them wrong. And that the constituent country system is actually rather common and is distinct from the US federal model.
The UK claiming that it's subnational regions are countries is so weird, and as far as I can tell is just because the word "country" is used to describe the regions. Like the US describes its regions as "states" but nobody goes around putting Tennessee on lists with Canada
If i followed Karl Lockwood’s logic here, i could easily write a “don’t say the G-Word” article
because for me (and i assume most younger people) queer was never used as an insult, but gay certainly was
“are you gay?” “did you call me gay?” “that’s so gay” etc
gay & queer 👍🏻
Hi
@AnasSarwar
,
@IanMurrayMP
and
@jackiebmsp
!
Why is it that you follow this account? Personally i think it’s odd to follow someone who simply posts homophobic and derogatory comments about teenagers online.
But hey, you do you! 🥀
@_DylanHamilton_
the “too many trans people are autistic” argument always just boils down to “i don’t think autistic people should have any autonomy to make their own decisions”
EXCL: Ex boxing champ and Alba Party candidate in racism row over remarks about Humza Yousaf. Alex Arthur said the Glasgow-born incoming First Minister is “as Scottish as England” and “I don’t want foreign people running my country my ancestors bled for”
Remember in the Rutherglen by-election when a certain Mr Shanks was going on about how independent he was and how much he wanted to scrap the 2 child benefit cap?
Hmmm, I wonder how that’s working out just about now…
🥀
Spectator Journalist can’t even spell the First Minister’s name right
After more that a year as FM, the fact that some people are still misspelling what is a very easy name just screams of racism to me
This Lady rents out her “principal home” for the majority of the year
she lives & works in London
she makes approx £40k a year off of the property
And yet she still thinks that she is somehow a victim here?
first they came for trans people, and now that it has become socially acceptable, they’re coming for gay people as well
trans people told you this would happen, they said it over and over again
An anti-gender reform protester calls LGBT counter-protesters “child molesters”, “paedophiles” and tells a police officer that they “should be arrested” outside the Scottish Parliament
Would it be racist to boycott a brand for including a black person in their advertising?
Would it be Anti-Semitic if they were jewish?
Would it be Homophobic if they were gay?
If the answer to any of the above question is yes, then it’s transphobic 🤷
I often complain that Labour just act like red tories but nah, this is red UKIP behaviour
no wonder so many of your members have been exposed for being massive racists
Or we could just build new council houses and retrofit the old ones?
selling off housing stock for £1 seems like a pretty good way for landlords and house flippers to swoop in and take over more of our housing stock 🥀
🚨 New policy - £1 homes 🚨
Too many houses in our communities sit dilapidated and unused.
Labour will put empty homes back in use and rebuild communities along with it.
#ScotLab23
🚨 NEW: Poll suggests SNP would win majority of seats in GE2024, amid a Tory wipeout in Scotland.
🟨 SNP 31 (-17)
🟥 LAB 22 (+21)
🟧 LD 4 (+2)
🟦 CON 0 (-6)
Based on poll by
@Survation
, 25 Jan (+/- vs 2019)
This sort of statement is so cynical and disheartening
- Why is standing up for what's right "Motion Politics"?
- Why should the SNP have to water down their condemnations of Genocide?
- Why will Labour not do what is right? Regardless of polls or popularity?
Motion politics 101. Stick something unpalatable for yr rivals in a motion they’d otherwise back, then cry foul when they won’t back it. See: the SNP’s “collective punishment” line. If SNP wanted to maximise chance of Labour backing their motion they wouldn’t have included it
Every single MSP in the entire Scottish parliament was elected on a Manifesto Commitment to pass a bill banning conversion therapy
Any MSP - SNP or otherwise - who throws LGBT people under the bus and stokes culture war division should be ashamed of themselves
EXCLUSIVE: UP to 15 SNP rebels could derail Humza Yousaf’s controversial bid to ban conversion therapy
But ministers may not bring a bill forward till 2025 in the hope UK Labour will bring their own version and bail them out of a problem
Humza is right, we must challenge the section 35 order, tories are already abusing section 35 to attack the deposit return scheme and will use it to attack every scot gov decision made in the future from now on
I was pointing out he was a misogynist like 2 years ago, but oh no! He hates trans people so the terf brigade was willingly to overlook his rampant sexism, and now they want to act shocked when he does this? PLEASE
Are we still mispronouncing Humza Yousaf’s name? How long are we going to keep up with this nonsense for?
Just read his name out and you’ll get the right pronunciation, it’s literally phonetic.
"There's been two SNP leadership contests recently. Kate Forbes took part in one of them - she lost. In the other, she didn't even stand and yet she somehow won both of them. Not bad politics."
@geoffaberdein
's observations on Kate Forbes who is now Deputy First Minister.
Rowling is attacking Yousaf cause she’s a billionaire britnat with a long history of questionable behaviour with regards to racism and antisemitism
her remarks are better left ignored 😌
A lot of people have asked me my views of the leadership contest. Truthfully, I have been incredibly hurt so far. Hurt originating with the statements
@_KateForbes
has made and since stood by. I, like most people in Scotland, could not care less about someone’s religion. (1/10)
oh absolutely not
the positive social and economic benefits of these programmes cannot be understated, and removing them would simply demonstrate a contempt for young people and for sensible economic planning
The abuse that he's been getting in these comments and elsewhere is absolutely abhorrent
If he has a "gay voice" or not has absolutely nothing to do with his competence or his politics, homophobes can get tae fuck
boy george: 10 years ago i never thought i would be doing I’m a celeb
wasn’t he in prison for chaining a sex worker to a wall and beating him with a chain 10 years ago?