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mandy rhodes

@holyroodmandy

4 years

My @HolyroodDaily column is for anyone that has given their heart to a pet.

Losing a dog can be heartbreaking

Mandy Rhodes on the pain of losing a pet

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mandy rhodes

@holyroodmandy

2 years

Q: “Dad, what side of history were you on?” A: “The side that put on balaclavas and attacked women of my mother’s age in front of a statue of the leader of the suffragettes and taught them a lesson in what feminism was all about. Women need to be put in their place, son.”

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I’ve always felt uncomfortable with the whole preferred pronoun thing because I want to be kind but the reality is, that as soon as you call a man a ‘she’ you’re on the slippery slope to where we are now. A man can’t be a woman.

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2 years

Now, that’s a debate I wouldn’t mind chairing 👇

Joanna Cherry challenges Nicola Sturgeon to public debate on gender reform

JOANNA Cherry has challenged Nicola Sturgeon and Ruth Davidson to a public debate on Gender Recognition Act (GRA) reform after both declined to…

www.thenational.scot

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2 years

So, I recall asking SNP HQ if man charged with threats against @joannaccherry was a member & told no. I asked subtle supplementary - was he at time of threats. Got angry diatribe, about how dare I question press officer’s integrity & veracity blah, blah… Reader, he was a member.

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2 years

“Every person who calls a rapist for what he is – a man – makes it easier for the rest of us to speak truth to power and not allow for fantasy and mendacity to pollute issues of equality.” Me in ⁦ @HolyroodDaily ⁩

The Isla Bryson case only highlights the real risks to women of gender self-ID

The fallout from the case has exposed the reality of the risks for women whose concerns were once dismissed at 'not vali...

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@holyroodmandy

4 years

Seriously, can we all calm down about Christmas? It’s one day. A vaccine is in clear sight and I for one can wait a bit longer to spend time with my family when it’s safe and we can then celebrate having many more Christmases together Covid free.

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@holyroodmandy

1 year

Sorry, but in what sense is Scotland the best place for a child to grow up in when a rapist gets 270 hours of community service for raping a 13-year-old girl because of new sentencing guidelines which take into account the brain development of a predator under the age of 25?

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@holyroodmandy

4 years

I have always respected & liked Catherine Calderwood but seriously, on her advice, I haven’t visited my elderly mother who is housebound, on her own & lives an hour and a half from Edinburgh, but then she’s a person, not a second home. #StayHomeSaveLives

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@holyroodmandy

6 years

Does this bloke have a season ticket for #bbcqt he needs to get a hobby!

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3 years

What a time to be alive when the word ‘woman’ is considered a dog whistle.

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5 months

There is no doubt that not understanding the impact of the gender recognition reforms, has now brought down two SNP first ministers, it's entirely reasonable for the candidates this time around to spell out exactly where they stand on Cass & other areas of concern.

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@holyroodmandy

2 years

If you can’t define woman, never mind use the actual word ‘woman’ when it comes to women’s reproductive rights, then how do you campaign for women?

Rep. Francesca Hong 홍윤정

@StateRepHong

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Birthing bodies have the right to freedom. Deciding if or when to become a parent is one of the most personal, life-changing decisions. Access to abortion & reproductive care is a decision we must trust each person to make based on what’s best for their health & their future.

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5 years

Obviously my sympathy is with Prince Charles for testing + to the virus, but he ignored travel advice, came to Scotland, & been able to get a test. My friend, a nurse, has the symptoms & is waiting for test to confirm one way or another so she can get back on wards to do her job.

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@holyroodmandy

5 years

Anyone fancy a move to Scotland, we have plenty of room and we’re really very nice #electionresults2019

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4 months

Surely this has to be the WTF moment when a rape crisis centre, of all places, doesn't believe in biology! Come on, people, get a grip!

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@holyroodmandy

2 years

A serious case of not being able to read the room (or indeed the science)!

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@holyroodmandy

2 years

"There is no evidence that predatory and abusive men have ever had to pretend to be anything else to carry out abusive and predatory behaviour."

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@holyroodmandy

4 months

A rape crisis centre that doesn't believe in sex, a party [that was in government] that expels members for saying sex exists, children told they can change sex & given untested drugs to stop puberty, what does it take for people to wake up to what's happening here?

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@holyroodmandy

2 years

I won’t forget easily how a particular Scottish MP told me that the use of puberty blockers were completely safe and reversible and that that is where our apparently good relationship just ended simply because I questioned that premise!

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@holyroodmandy

4 months

Only gone and won columnist of the year at Scottish Press Awards

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@holyroodmandy

5 months

Still puzzled as to what the FM was referring to when he said he wasn't "prepared to trade his values & principles simply to retain power" when what Ash Regan was asking for was "protecting the dignity, safety & rights of women & children, & providing a competent government".

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@holyroodmandy

3 months

To politicians who told me ‘I’m not going there’ or were glad to be leaving politics before it became an issue, & who didn’t stand with worried women, this has arguably helped take down 2 first ministers, tarnished a 3rd & now threatens the next PM. Women are not a fringe issue!

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@holyroodmandy

1 year

Honoured to be appointed to @EHRC Scotland Committee – the UK’s statutory regulator of Equality Act 2010. It's never been more important to ensure equality & human rights match in practice, the legal intent, so everyone can live life fully, & without fear of discrimination.

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@holyroodmandy

3 years

And maybe at some point there’ll berecognition from Scottish Government that it was complicit in creating a hostile environment where women, raising questions about whether there could be consequences for women of rights/laws competing with each other, were labelled transphobic.

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@holyroodmandy

2 years

Scottish Secretary Alister Jack said: “I have decided to make an order under section 35 of the Scotland Act 1998, preventing the Scottish Parliament’s Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill from proceeding to Royal Assent."

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@holyroodmandy

2 years

Quite ‘sinister’ how certain men are so keen to dismiss the important legal win by a black, lesbian, working class, feminist, about discrimination by her employer for holding beliefs about the reality of biological sex. I wonder why that is?

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@holyroodmandy

3 years

When @NicolaSturgeon , said "we want Scotland to be an open welcoming country for all" I understand that one of the new Tory MSPs, Tess White, shouted "except if you're English". That's what got the FM so angry and she will take up with the PO. #fmqs

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@holyroodmandy

4 years

Alex Salmond in reply to @jackiebmsp about whether having been a first minister himself, would it be a breach of the ministerial code to continue with a legal case when you know the legal advise is that you are going to lose, "yes".

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@holyroodmandy

4 years

There’s a real danger of the SNP showing it’s really nasty side about colleagues that the party was urging the electorate to vote for not so many months ago. Might be advised to reel it back a bit.

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@holyroodmandy

2 years

Can male commentators remember that when discussing runners & riders for new @theSNP leader & they single out @_KateForbes for having a young family as if that is a negative, she isn’t the only one with young children… @AngusRobertson @HumzaYousaf & @neilgraysnp @ScotlandTonight

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2 years

A UN Special Rapporteur on Torture…on TORTURE…calling for common sense to prevail in Scotland! Just think about that.

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@holyroodmandy

5 months

@KennyFarq @thetimes Such a bad take IMO, Kenny, I’d love to know what is progressive about the two former first ministers you’re celebrating advocating the idea that a man could become a woman by declaring it to be so. Neither do I believe that water can be turned into wine btw.

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2 years

“The first minister said she would argue “until my dying breath” that there was no conflict between women’s rights and trans rights.” Problem being, that so far, the FM hasn’t actually argued that case other than dismiss women’s concerns as ‘not valid’.

Sturgeon stands firm in row over trans rights

Nicola Sturgeon has declined to define the characteristics of a woman, insisting that oversimplifying the gender debate risks harming trans people who are the “most stigmatised and discriminated...

www.thetimes.com

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@holyroodmandy

4 years

Do we live in a country now where we are not only told what not to read but also to forget things we might have read? Time to be alive!

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@holyroodmandy

2 years

Mention 'women's rights' and you are immediately accused of criticising 'trans' rights' which you never mentioned. What is wrong with these people?

Cameron

@MammothWhale

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It hasn't been a day since the US Supreme Court had moved to remove a basic human right for 40% of American women, and gender critics are instead using it to criticise trans rights. What the hell is actually wrong with these people?

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@holyroodmandy

4 years

Today is not about what Alex Salmond did or didn’t do, it is about what he claims the Scottish Government, Nicola Sturgeon, and her advisors, did or didn’t do. That is what the remit of the committee is. #SalmondInquiry

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2 years

Remember when it was deemed 'undemocratic' for the next prime minister to be selected by the Tory party membership rather than by the country...

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@holyroodmandy

2 years

What does @ScotParl think it says about women when it excludes women from wearing a scarf in suffragette colours? How do you think women ever got to vote in the first place? Bonkers.

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@holyroodmandy

10 months

It's actually devolution at work.

Holyrood magazine

@HolyroodDaily

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BREAKING: First Minister Humza Yousaf has said it's a "dark day for devolution" after a court ruled the UK Government had acted lawfully to block gender reform.

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2 years

Re: Nicola Sturgeon's claim that during a private conversation at COP26, Liz Truss pressed her on how to get a glossy spread in Vogue (FM's done 2) is perhaps a warning for women leaders not to have private conversations with Nicola Sturgeon, she has form!

Nicola Sturgeon branded "clype" after TV debate spat with Kezia Dugdale over private phone call

Nicola Sturgeon has been branded a "clype" by political opponents as the general election campaign in Scotland headed towards a bitter climax. Tory leader

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10 months

Today's court decision does not roll back on any rights that trans gender people currently have but it does recognise that the notion of legal self ID would impact women's rights. That's important.

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@holyroodmandy

3 years

I am constantly asked by MSPs/MPs of other parties why a woman like @joannaccherry appears to get so little support from her own party. I can’t answer, I wish I could.

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@holyroodmandy

3 months

Sorry to see @joannaccherry lose her seat, she has been a voice of sense, intellect and reason in a party that didn’t want to listen to what she had to say. #election2024

The City of Edinburgh Council

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3 months

The #EdinGE2024 results for Edinburgh South West is our 4th constituency declaration. Scott Arthur wins with 18,663 votes. Turnout was 62.09% Full results: Scottish Labour Party – Arthur, Scott – 18,663 Scottish National Party (SNP) – Cherry, Joanna – 12,446 (1/3)

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2 years

“And no matter that the perpetrators consider themselves the progressives, that’s presumably what the men of Salem thought when they condemned women to death on the say-so of unwitting children caught up in a mass hysteria.” Me in ⁦ @HolyroodDaily ⁩

Editor's Column: A Return to the Dark Ages

Women with concerns about a creeping erasure of who they are and the rights they hold, have been variously accused of be...

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@holyroodmandy

4 years

Now that barbers are to reopen soon, is it safe to show my husband what I have done to him?

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@holyroodmandy

6 years

Regardless of your view, for or against Scottish independence, it’s an absolute nonsense to pretend that negotiations around it would be more chaotic than this shit show. Let’s put that one to bed. #BrexitShambles

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@holyroodmandy

5 months

Fergus Ewing was suspended from the SNP just for voting in support of a 'no confidence' motion in the Green minister and now the FM has sacked the Green minister...

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2 years

As gender ideology comes up against the law, health provision and sport, legitimate questions continue to be raised and yet in Scotland, "no valid concerns".

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@holyroodmandy

4 years

Imagine being the kind of man that is ill, that straps your young kid into the car with you, drives four and a half hours, breathing out your germs all the way, and then goes to see parents that are over 70. What kind of man is that?

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2 years

Love it…

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4 years

Anyone that sees @JohannLamont as being full of hate for speaking with passion for why it is wrong to not include women in the hate crime bill, needs to question their definition of 'hate'.

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5 months

John Swinney swerves answering the question about what a woman is...

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1 year

Yesterday Nicola Sturgeon was laughing on a BBC podcast about how Qs about her private life contributed to her resigning...🤷‍♀️

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@holyroodmandy

2 years

Women's rights over their own bodies are literally being snatched from them in the US and you don't see the connection with men in balaclavas screaming at feminists in the UK to go home and look after their children? #WomensRightsAreHumanRights

Sky News Breaking

@SkyNewsBreak

2 years

The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade - which granted the right to an abortion nationwide For more on this and other news visit

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@holyroodmandy

2 years

Female victim of male abuse puts her money where her mouth is to help other women, that's what female philanthropy looks like.

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For those who need it... @beirasplace

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@holyroodmandy

2 years

Imagine being a political party that knows about sexual harassment complaints about one of your MPs and you still make them chief whip…oh, wait!

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4 years

Anyone still believe there aren't some governance issues in Scotland right now?

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2 years

An error maybe, but one facilitated by the way this whole issue has been framed with feminists painted as the enemy. Wrong, wrong, wrong!

Holyrood magazine

@HolyroodDaily

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Presiding Officer Alison Johnson addresses the removal of members of the public from a committee meeting this morning. "The action taken was an error and I would like to apologise on behalf of the parliament," she said.

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@holyroodmandy

4 years

Boris Johnson picks up crabs in Orkney [sorry, too easy]

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@holyroodmandy

2 years

“Make no mistake, the numbers may yet feel small, but this could yet be a seminal moment not just in the career of the FM, but also in the history of the SNP and the journey to independence.” Me on the growing rebellion in ⁦ @theSNP ⁩ over GRA reforms.

If the SNP had the courage of its convictions, it would've allowed a free vote on gender reform

Make no mistake, the numbers may feel small, but this could yet be a seminal moment not just in the career of the FM, bu...

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2 years

Nothing very ‘progressive’ about a woman being offered an apparently diminished role while on maternity leave…

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@holyroodmandy

3 years

“Outrage has been the rocket fuel to women’s lives for all our lifetimes. It has given us the momentum to simply carry on through. To keep on fighting. To stay alive.” My ⁦latest @HolyroodDaily ⁩ column. An angry one!

Editor's Column: Time to Speak Up

Women have always been there. We were fighting for you. Putting the needs of others, as we always do, well before our ow...

www.holyrood.com

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@holyroodmandy

4 years

Jackie Baillie has always really got under Nicola Sturgeon's skin.

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@holyroodmandy

4 months

The insistence on 'trans women are women' mantra was a genius campaigning tactic which relied on kindness, a lack of intellectual curiosity & fear of being called a bigot. Politicians helped oil the wheels of that very successful lobbying campaign which has done untold damage.

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@holyroodmandy

2 years

You couldn’t make it up, the leaker of the meeting is threatened with the polis but full support for the MP found guilty by the parliamentary authorities over sexual misconduct complaint. Remind me of the definition of zero tolerance?

SNP chief whip warns MPs over Westminster leak

SNP MPs have been threatened with criminal action by their chief whip over a leaked recording of a meeting at which senior figures backed a colleague sanctioned

www.thetimes.com

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@holyroodmandy

4 years

Who knew that so many Rangers' supporters were experts in workplace health & safety?

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@holyroodmandy

2 years

“The Scottish Government could find itself on the wrong side of history as the gender ideology that has so perfectly entranced politicians and celebrities alike comes up wanting when tested against the law, health provision and fact.”

It's time we stopped allowing lobby groups to drive the debate on gender

The Scottish Government needs to start listening to the equalities regulator when it comes to gender reform

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@holyroodmandy

2 years

They always seemed perfectly happy with the the idea of Eve being different from Adam…

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5 months

I know this isn't all about me BUT my long-arranged 2:30pm interview with Humza Yousaf this afternoon has just been cancelled...

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@holyroodmandy

4 years

As committee breaks for lunch, fair to say that if we are comparing Sturgeon's appearance with Salmond's, both reminded us of their considerable political abilities & what is lost by that partnership but his grasp of recall & detail seemed better than hers has been so far today.

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@holyroodmandy

3 years

Reckon @jk_rowling is now beginning to enjoy this. Welcome, sister. #womenwontwheest

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@holyroodmandy

4 years

Alex Salmond describes the messages that he has seen but have not been released are "extraordinary" and "the most shocking thing I have ever seen in my life"

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@holyroodmandy

3 years

Just gone and won columnist of the year, you haters! #ppasa21

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@holyroodmandy

2 years

Reposting my interview from Feb 2022 with chair of UK's statutory regulator on equalities legislation @EHRC @EHRCChair who wrote to SG a number of times calling for a pause on GRR bill pointing out the potential conflict with the Equalities Act...

Kishwer Falkner: Is life now so brittle that to ask questions is to be deemed to be controversial?

Mandy Rhodes speaks to the chair of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission

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@holyroodmandy

3 years

“Here we are, with the SNP still winning votes on the back of a promise to build a fairer, more equal, Scotland. If it’s window dressing you are after, then artifice has won over substance.” Me in ⁦ @HolyroodDaily ⁩

The mendacity of hope

It's an indictment of the SNP that after 14 years in power, the party has not shifted the dial sufficiently on inequity

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@holyroodmandy

4 years

FM's attempts at humour at this committee haven't sat right.

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2 years

Public Gallery cleared after protestors should 'shame on you' following a vote rejecting amendment relating to sex offenders applying for a GRC.

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3 years

Who knew that so many men didn’t understand a woman’s biology…🤷🏼‍♀️

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@holyroodmandy

1 year

Bit uncomfortable being interviewee but thanks to @kmckenna63 for making it easy(ish) I don't believe journalists should get abused for doing their job and I will never stop asking questions. It's what we do! Thanks to @Anna_Moffat who had the hard job!

'My family feared for my safety in Holyrood due to trans tensions' - Mandy Rhodes

AS Scotland emerged from lockdown restrictions in the summer of 2021 Mandy Rhodes began to feel deeply uncomfortable at her work. As the long-time…

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@holyroodmandy

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“To deny there are consequences of changes to the GRA and how it interacts with sex discrimination and equality legislation, is to ignore the facts.” I wrote this FOUR years ago but told my views weren’t valid and that I was a bigot…

The Scottish Government’s clumsy attempts to reform the Gender Recognition Act have inadvertently...

People’s identity is not, and should not, be up for debate, but the legal process around gender ID and how it is shaped ...

www.holyrood.com

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5 years

Audience member says that knife crime is a huge issue in Glasgow. Clearly hasn’t seen that Glasgow is teaching London a thing or two about how to tackle knife crime #bbcqt

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@holyroodmandy

6 years

Busy @waitrose car park in Edinburgh’s Morningside where a car parked over two spaces is aptly named!

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@holyroodmandy

3 years

Not sure about Scot Gov ministers tweeting pics everytime they bump into a current or former politician from another country. Does it make them look like fan boys and girls? Should we be so in awe? Does it make us look small? Should it make the front page of a national newspaper?

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The issue isn't about individual party membership numbers & whether one party has more members than another or publishes those numbers or not, the issue was about lying about numbers and very clearly & publicly ridiculing a journalist that reported a drop in numbers correctly.

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@holyroodmandy

5 months

The misinformation being peddled around the Cass Report is astonishing from politicians.

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Patrick Harvie refuses to accept that the Cass Report is a valid piece of scientific research.

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11 months

She was considered good enough to be a minister in an SNP government…

The National

@ScotNational

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NEW: "No great loss" Humza Yousaf has given his reaction to former leadership hopeful Ash Regan's defection to the Alba Party

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2 years

Scottish Tory MSPs joined ⁦ @MForstater ⁩ and hundreds of women at the Women’s Rally outside the Scottish Parliament today #womenwontweesht

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6 years

Hey Scotland, feeling ignored? #Brexit

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1 year

I guess passing your theory part of your driving test wasn’t the most exciting news of the week after all!

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6 years

I don’t have a view on his views, but what are the odds of being picked numerous times to be in ⁦ @bbcquestiontime ⁩ audience & then to be picked to ask an actual question & then to picked to be tweeted by the actual show itself? #lucky #bbcqt

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@holyroodmandy

4 years

Alex Salmond’s submission: “The real cost to the Scottish people runs into many millions of pounds & yet no-one in this entire process has uttered the simple words which are necessary on occasions to renew and refresh democratic institutions - “I Resign”.

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2 years

“Here we are again, rehearsing old arguments for why we should have rights over who we are and what our bodies are allowed to do. For God’s sake, this is about being a woman.” Me in ⁦ @HolyroodDaily ⁩

Comment: If you can’t define ‘woman,’ never mind use the actual word, then how do you fight for...

There is an escalating onslaught on women’s rights, the right even to own our own word

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mandy rhodes

@holyroodmandy

5 years

Ruth quitting will be interpreted by the English media as an honourable move by someone that was set to be the next First Minister but that’s because they’ve never actually understood the reality & that was never going to happen.

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1 year

“And on the substantive issue for that column, of her being “struck by the polarisation in politics”, if she [Sturgeon] really needs to understand how we got to this place, then she simply needs look in the mirror.” My ⁦ @HolyroodDaily ⁩ column.

Nicola Sturgeon is completely lacking in self-awareness when she complains of polarised debate

Sturgeon's latest lament is sheer audacity from someone many see as the chief protagonist in Scotland's bitterly divided...

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mandy rhodes

@holyroodmandy

2 years

Scot Gov review into funding of Violence Against Women and Girls services in Scotland just been published. Most frequent theme was support for single sex spaces with female-only staff. 1/4

Violence against women and girls funding review: analysis of responses

Analysis of the responses to the Strategic Review of Funding and Commissioning of Violence Against Women and Girls Services call for evidence.

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mandy rhodes

@holyroodmandy

2 years

Long time Indy supporter Robin McAlpine's two-word verdict on the SNP's new economic prospectus for independence, "utter pish". Longer read here 👇

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mandy rhodes

@holyroodmandy

5 years

Last thing @theSNP needs is men with these stupid red targets in their twitter handles attacking a woman in their own party who did more for equality by standing up as the first female politician to present a budget in the UK, than they have ever done. Party needs to get a grip.

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mandy rhodes

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3 years

One of the really wonderful things about this whole horrible ‘sex and gender’ debate is how it’s brought women back together who thought the battles had been won. And we love being reunited. We’re also quite powerful.

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mandy rhodes

@holyroodmandy

3 months

Morning @elonmusk the @holyrooddaily account has been closed because your team thought it was a child's account (no jokes here , please). This is very urgent given we are a political magazine - I am the editor - & in the midst of an election. Getting no support. Can you help?

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2 years

“We are where we are because we trusted Nicola Sturgeon to act in our interests, not hers. She made a big mistake 6 years ago, led supporters to believe things they shouldn’t & spun in increasingly elaborate ways to avoid a reckoning.” Ouch Robin McAlpine!

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