Media 2024 - For Women Scotland

Here we publish links to press articles, and TV, radio and podcasts, where For Women Scotland has featured or provided a comment.

Coverage of our UK Supreme Court case, 26-27 November 2024: https://forwomen.scot/22/10/2024/uk-supreme-court/

24 November 2024, Telegraph: SNP Government researches “non-binary” Scots despite John Swinney’s claim there are only two genders

24 November 2024, Times: Supreme Court trans hearing heralds end of the age of woke

24 November 2024, Times: Gender identity, not birth sex, listed on Scottish death records

24 November 2024, Scotsman: Crucial legal battle over the definition of a woman is one for our bizarre times

23 November 2024, Telegraph: Equality law applies to ‘pregnant men’, SNP tells Supreme Court

23 November 2023, Times: Meet the Scottish women taking the gender battle to Britain’s highest court

23 November 2024, Scotsman: How UK’s highest court is about to decide what a ‘woman’ is

22 November 2024, Telegraph: Equality laws protect ‘pregnant men’, say SNP ministers

22 November 2024, Critic: John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?

21 November 2024, Telegraph: JK Rowling accuses Scottish council of honouring violent prisoner by flying trans flag

17 November 2024, Daily Record: Head of Rape Crisis Scotland cleared over data breach complaints

17 November 2024, Times: What is a woman? Five judges will soon decide

16 November 2024, Scottish Sun: Scots trans cops WILL be given leave to change gender

14 November 2024, Daily Mail: Fury as Scottish school holds fundraiser to buy chest binders for transgender pupils

14 November 2024, Sky News: Glasgow: Bannerman High School criticised over chest binder fundraiser for transgender pupils

13 November 2024, Daily Record: Keir Starmer Government urged to clarify definition of sex by the Tories

12 November 2024, Times: School criticised over chest binder fundraiser for trans pupils

12 November 2024, Daily Record: Trans row erupts at Scots school over “chest binder” fundraiser for girls who identify as boys

09 November 2024, Daily Mail: Now pupils aged as young as four told to address their gender neutral teacher as ‘Mx’

04 November 2024, Scottish Legal News: Scottish Lesbians publish written submission ahead of For Women Scotland’s Supreme Court case

27 October 2024, Daily Mail: Kemi Badenoch pledges a ‘very different’ approach to Scotland and says she is not afraid to expose SNP failings

27 October 2024, Daily Record: Scots prison staff sent woman to all-male nick after mistakenly identifying her as man

25 October 2024, BBC News: Rape centre breaks away from charity in row over gender

22 October 2024, Scottish Legal News: For Women Scotland publishes Equality Act arguments ahead of landmark Supreme Court case

19 October 2024, Daily Mail:

18 October 2024, Scottish Daily Express: Scottish Parliament urged to stop MSPs like Maggie Chapman from using ‘derogatory’ word for women in debates

16 October 2024, Telegraph: GPs told to refer children to pro-trans charity, despite Cass review

13 October 2024, Daily Record: NHS Fife fights for secret hearings in landmark legal action over trans woman in female changing room

11 October 2024, Times: Will Labour show it’s learnt a biology lesson?

11 October 2024, Scottish Legal News: Scottish Lesbians to intervene in For Women Scotland’s Supreme Court appeal

11 October 2024, Daily Mail: Anger as Scots football chiefs quiz under-16s about their gender and sexuality in bid to ‘improve’ experiences watching Scotland

10 October 2024, Scottish Sun: ‘It’s woke nonsense’ cry Scotland fans as Tartan Army kids asked whether they are trans in ‘creepy’ SFA survey

09 October 2024, Labour Heartlands: Gender and the Law: The Vitruvian Woman on Trial

08 October 2024, Herald: Amnesty joins landmark Supreme Court case on definition of woman

04 October 2024, Times: Lord Reed: How we will decide what constitutes a woman

04 October 2024, Herald: Sex offenders released from prison before completing rehabilitation

03 October 2024, Telegraph: JK Rowling discloses she wrote ‘believer in biology’ as her religion in Scottish census

03 October 2024, Holyrood: Almost 3,000 people declare religion as ‘believer in biology’ in Scottish census

03 October 2024, Daily Mail: Police considered whether trans double rapist Isla Bryson could be recorded as female on sex offenders’ register, report claims

02 October 2024, Herald: Campaigners raise concerns over Rape Crisis Scotland school survey

29 September 2024, Daily Mail: Rape Crisis boss ‘knew in 2019 about lack of female-only spaces’

25 September 2024, Scottish Sun: Male rapists will NOT be able to self-ID as women in major Police Scotland U-turn

22 September 2024, Daily Record: Rape Crisis Scotland chief offered up phone numbers of survivors who backed her amid calls to quit

19 September 2024, Telegraph: Charity head ‘won’t quit’ over hindering of rape victims’ access to female counsellors

15 September 2024, Telegraph: Scots NHS unsure how many trans patients have taken ‘risk’ by changing sex on records

14 September 2024, Times of India: JK Rowling slams Indian-origin trans executive Mridul Wadhwa over rape crisis centre failings: What’s the fallout?

13 September 2024, Telegraph: Trans boss of Scottish rape crisis centre quits after ‘failing female victims’

13 September 2024, Times: JK Rowling and Sharron Davies call for Rape Crisis board to resign

12 September 2024, Times: Trans boss of rape crisis centre ‘should be sacked over failings’

08 September 2024, Sunday Post:

08 September 2024, Daily Mail:

08 September 2024, Herald: Police Scotland face backlash over gender ID policy

04 September 2024, Telegraph: Scotland drops controversial plans to outlaw conversion therapy

17 August 2024, Herald: SNP MSPs and activists set to clash in gender affirming care debate

08 August 2024, National: Be clear about the facts when discussing Olympic boxing controversy

04 August 2024, Daily Mail: Dozens of children under the age of 10 – and some as young as five – referred to Scotland’s controversial gender clinic

28 July 2024, Times: SNP facing calls for inquiry after activist jailed for assaults

28 July 2024, Daily Record: Ex-SNP Minister demands probe into sex attack activist who wanted to ‘beat the f*** out of terfs’ after warnings ignored

25 July 2024, Telegraph: Biological men can work in rape crisis centres, says charity chief

19 July 2024, Times: Rape crisis centre’s boss placed on leave amid gender row

14 July 2024, Scottish Daily Express: Scottish football chiefs urged to stand up for women and girls amid trans players debate

11 July 2024, Daily Mail: Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes admits SNP has a ‘problem with misogyny’ and must make changes

03 July 2024, Times: Sandyford whistleblower warns of doctors’ ‘fear of challenge’

02 July 2024, Daily Mail: Furious caller tells John Swinney the SNP’s record on protecting women’s rights and single-sex spaces is ‘absolutely not good enough’

02 July 2024, Telegraph: Swinney contradicts SNP gender policies to demand ‘enforcement’ of single-sex spaces

01 July 2024, Telegraph: John Swinney admits there are only two genders despite backing Sturgeon on self-ID

28 June 2024, Times: Female NHS worker takes legal action over sharing changing room with trans woman

27 June 2024, Telegraph: ‘Non-binary’ Scots outnumber trans men and women combined

25 June 2024, Scottish Daily Express: David Tennant told ‘women won’t wheesht’ as he says he hopes Kemi Badenoch ‘doesn’t exist’

23 June 2024, Sunday Post: Anger as many schools force pupils to share toilet facilities with opposite sex

22 June 2024, Daily Mail: So much for equality! Top school’s inclusivity drive ‘backfires’ as head girl is replaced with, er, a BOY!

22 June 2024, Times: Top doctor challenged over transgender care

21 June 2024, Telegraph: Top school under fire after boy captain replaces head girl after ‘gender-neutral’ inclusivity drive

21 June 2024, Times: Definition of a woman is ditched from legislation

20 June 2024, Telegraph: SNP government’s health chief urged to adopt Cass Review by senior doctors

18 June 2024, Telegraph: Scottish Labour accused of backing gender self-ID law

04 June 2024, Telegraph: Trans rights activists help SNP set up a new NHS child gender service

29 May 2024, Daily Mail: Nearly all Scottish secondary schools allow children to self-ID and choose their own gender with new report warning policy operating in 95% of colleges may allow students to share toilets

28 May 2024, Telegraph: Over 95pc Scottish secondary schools allow children to self-identify gender

26 May 2024, Sunday Post: Violent trans ex-cons admitted to ‘women-only’ rehab scheme

24 May 2024, Times: Literary society tells bookshops not to sell ‘Terf’ books

20 May 2024, Times: JK Rowling slams ‘witch-hunts’ after rape crisis centre worker’s victory

13 May 2024, Telegraph: Swinney accused of tying himself in ‘nonsensical’ knots over whether trans women are women

06 May 2024, Times: Scottish council to stop schools calling pupils boys and girls

05 May 2024, Scottish Sun: John Swinney sparks backlash by claiming he could resurrect gender self-ID plans when he becomes FM

05 May 2024, Daily Record: Scots teachers could be banned from using ‘girls and boys’ in Tory led constituency

04 May 2024, Times: Feminists rage at Sturgeon’s warnings on women’s rights

29 April 2024, Scotsman: Humza Yousaf’s adherence to trans ideology played a part in his political demise. Will next SNP leader stand up for reality?

25 April 2024, Telegraph: JK Rowling may have the last laugh on SNP’s obsession with trans rights

21 April 2024, Express: Outrage as SNP claims it’s not just women who go through the menopause

21 April 2024, Telegraph: SNP report says ‘it’s not just women’ who get menopause symptoms

20 April 2024, Daily Mail: It’s not just women who experience menopause, insists SNP

20 April 2024, Spectator: Scotland’s surprising new free speech champion

18 April 2024, Scottish Daily Express: ‘Absolutely stupid’ Humza Yousaf provokes anger with rape claim as row over misogyny bill erupts

18 April 2024, Times: NHS whistleblower raised gender service concerns two years ago

16 April 2024, Telegraph: BBC Scotland accused of pandering to trans activists in Cass Review coverage

13 April 2024, Daily Mail: Stop prescribing puberty blockers to children – or risk legal action

12 April 2024, Daily Mail: Two weeks in and Scotland’s already riven by mutiny and chaos over the most absurd law since Henry II’s beard tax

11 April 2024, Telegraph: Children on puberty blockers ‘faced lack of psychological support’

11 April 2024, Quillette: Queen of the Gender Crits

10 April 2024, Telegraph: ‘Tartan Tavistock’ gender clinic ‘should be closed’ after Cass report’s findings

10 April 2024, GB News: SNP could EXPAND hate crime laws to cover trans conversion despite barrage of complaints

10 April 2024, CNN: A hate crime law was meant to protect against prejudice. It ended up sowing further division

09 April 2024, Telegraph: SNP could extend hate crime laws to offer trans people more protection

09 April 2024, 1919 Magazine: Hate crime law: police officers left to ‘untangle this mess’

08 April 2024, GB News: Children to be allowed to CHANGE GENDER in Scottish schools despite report of ‘psychological’ repercussions

08 April 2024, Telegraph: Children to be allowed to change gender in Scottish schools

08 April 2024, Scotsman: Readers’ Letters: Short memory over JK Rowling remarks ‘designed to offend’

07 April 2024, Holyrood: Over the rainbow: What does ‘lanyard-gate’ say about the state of Scottish politics?

07 April 2024, El Mundo: La cruzada de JK Rowling por las mujeres de Escocia y su lista negra de 10 ‘trans’

06 April 2024, Herald: Why JK felt she had to act

06 April 2024, Telegraph: Feminists clash with pro-trans activists on march against anti-hate speech law

06 April 2024, Scottish Daily Express: Let Women Speak Edinburgh event marred by ‘intimidating masked men’ as ‘hate monster’ makes an appearance

05 April 2024, National: Shutting down of hate crime debate made test by JK Rowling necessary

05 April 2024, Telegraph: Police Scotland criticised over mistake in new hate crime training

03 April 2024, Times: Police ‘making up hate-crime rules as they go’ over JK Rowling storm

03 April 2024 New York Post: JK Rowling vows to defend women eyed by cops for misgendering trans people after daring police to arrest her

03 April 2024, Scottish Legal News: Victims minister Siobhian Brown repeatedly gets new hate crime law wrong

02 April 2024, BBC News: JK Rowling hate law posts not criminal, police say

02 April 2024, Telegraph: Sturgeon ‘blocked changes’ to Scotland’s hate crime laws

01 April 2024, Critic: Susan Smith – No joke: Scotland’s Hate Crime Act is absurd, but nobody’s laughing

30 March 2024, Telegraph: How Scotland became an Orwellian nightmare

28 March 2024, Sky News: Scotland’s new hate crime law could be used to ‘settle scores’, say critics

22 March 2024, Telegraph: Trans-hating ‘parody of JK Rowling’ was created by Police Scotland officers

20 March 2024, Telegraph: Police accused of parodying JK Rowling with ‘Jo’, who thinks trans people should go to gas chambers

18 March 2024, Daily Mail: JK Rowling vows to defy Scotland’s ‘ludicrous’ new hate crime laws and refuses to delete posts calling trans TV presenter ‘just a man’

17 March 2024, Sunday Post:

16 March 2024, Daily Mail: How on earth did the luvvies at Creative Scotland end up spending £110,000 of public cash to bankroll a hardcore porn film?

15 March 2024, Herald: MSPs say public board quota rules definition of woman should change

14 March 2024, Telegraph: NHS clinic ‘follows discredited trans guidelines that encourage castration’

13 March 2024, Scottish Sun: ‘CATALYST’ SNP ministers urged to follow English ban on puberty blockers for kids wanting to change gender

12 March 2024, Scottish Daily Express: Bomb threats and Mumsnet! What drives For Women Scotland as they say they will never back down

12 March 2024, Holyrood: The women who wouldn’t wheesht: For Women Scotland on gender reform

11 March 2024, Scottish Sun: BREAKING POINT Cops will be stretched to the limit by new ‘flawed’ crackdown on hate crime, critics warn

10 March 2024, Telegraph: SNP quango gave public money to ‘porn masquerading as art’

10 March 2024, Times: Creative Scotland’s funding of explicit sex show under review

10 March 2024, STV News: Creative Scotland investigating concerns over public funding for explicit film

10 March 2024, Sunday Post:

09 March 2024, Scottish Sun: ‘STATE-FUNDED PORN’ Explicit ‘sex cave’ show handed £84,000 of public money by Scottish Government agency

08 March 2024, Daily Mail: Fury on International Women’s Day over Care Quality Commission report on NHS maternity services referring to females as genderless ‘people’

01 March 2024, Scotsman: Conversion therapy Scotland: Proposals for ban could introduce transgender self-ID by back door

26 February 2024, Times: Rodgers condemned by women’s groups after calling reporter ‘good girl’

26 February 2024, Daily Mail: Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers is labelled a ‘DINOSAUR’ for his ‘casual sexist’ put-down to a female BBC reporter while he walked away from a post-match interview over her questions

22 February 2024 Critic: Of course women support women

18 February 2024, Telegraph: JK Rowling donates £70k to challenge ruling that men can become women

17 February 2024, Scottish Daily Express: ‘Proud’ JK Rowling donates £70k to legal battle to stop the SNP Government changing the definition of a ‘woman’

17 February 2024, Times: JK Rowling donates £70k for legal challenge on defining a woman

16 February 2024, Times: Supreme Court to rule on legal definition of ‘woman’ in Scotland

12 February 2024, BBC News: Activist Simon Fanshawe named as University of Edinburgh rector

11 February 2024, Daily Mail:

12 January 2024, Scotsman: Scottish Government inundated with more than 4,000 responses to sex education and gender identity consultation

11 January 2024, Daily Mail: Conversion therapy ban bid ‘terrifying’ for parents

10 January 2024, Daily Mail: ‘This bill will destroy families’: Parents and campaigners slam SNP plans they say could see mothers and fathers JAILED for refusing to allow their children to change their gender

09 January 2024, Telegraph: Parents who refuse children gender change face seven years in jail in Scotland

08 January 2024, Telegraph: New Scottish trans prison rules ‘even worse than before’

07 January 2024, Scottish Daily Express: SNP Government spend thousands on non-binary action plan amid ‘cat identifying’ claim

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