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Nicola Sturgeon Interview
The First Minister Nicola Sturgeon seemed surprisingly ill-informed and bad-temped when interviewed yesterday on World at One, Radio 4. The audio of the interview is below, and a transcript...
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International Women’s Day Gathering
Tuesday 8th March 2022 As darkness falls on women’s rights in Scotland, we think it appropriate to meet at 7pm at the Witches’ Well on the Castle Esplanade, Edinburgh, to...
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Witches’ Memorials in Scotland
The Witchcraft Act 1563 resulted in approximately 4,000 innocent people being accused of witchcraft. Confessions were routinely obtained by torture and around 2,500 of those accused were convicted and...
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Census action – “believer in biology”
The guidance for the question “What is your sex?” in this month’s Scottish census states that the answer you give can be different from the sex given on your birth certificate, and that...
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FWS Statement on the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill
This sexist Bill takes a wrecking ball to safeguards by giving any man a passport to self-declare they are a woman without checks or any need for medication, surgery...
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We won! Scottish Government redefinition of woman is unlawful
We are absolutely delighted to report that after more than 18 months of legal action we have won the appeal of our judicial review. The Court of Session has...
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Letter to Shona Robison
We sent the following email to Shona Robison, Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Housing and Local Government on 14 February 2022. Dear Ms Robison, We should like to thank you...
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Joint statement in response to the EHRC intervention
In response to the EHRC’s recent letter to the Scottish Government about reform of the Gender Recognition Act and their submission to the UK Government about conversion therapy, 20...
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Joint statement on Scottish Government plans to legislate for the self-declaration of sex
We are pleased that the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has intervened to draw attention to concerns around current plans for reform of the Gender Recognition Act (GRA)...
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Women’s Rights Demo, September 2021
Thank you to all who attended our demo at the Scottish Parliament, and to the MSPs who came out to speak with us – we think it was a...