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Census Protest at National Records Scotland
Women gathered to protest Census Day 2022 by tying Suffragette coloured ribbons and messages to the railings outside the National Records of Scotland building in Edinburgh. This year’s census...
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Census Day
Thank you to everyone who has already taken part in our census action to write “Believer in Biology” on the Scottish Census. Today is census day and it is not too...
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Maggie Chapman Interview
Maggie Chapman was interviewed on the podcast Ungagged! Talking Sense: with Maggie Chapman. An audio excerpt of the discussion about reform of the Gender Recognition Act (from 41:35 mins)...
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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...