Forwomen.scot was formed on the 20th of June 2018 and it’s rather fitting that, exactly one year later, Shirley-Anne Somerville’s statement in Parliament on the reform of the GRA gave recognition to many of the issues on which we campaign.
(Video and official report)
Tag Archives: Joan McAlpine
Twitter thread re GRA Announcement

Link to Twitter thread: here
Archived here: http://archive.fo/nyZCD
Thread:
The shenanigans of @scotgov regarding the announcement of proposals to reform the GRA are, to say the least, concerning. There are serious questions which now must be answered by @S_A_Somerville and @NicolaSturgeon#sexnotgender#WarOnWomen
Police Scotland
Following Joan McAlpine’s Paliamentary Question on 13th March which discovered that Police Scotland and the Scottish Courts and Tribunal Service both record incidents on the basis of self-declared gender identity rather than sex, one of our members sought further clarification.
Continue readingMeghan Murphy at Parliament

We were delighted to be invited to this event. Many thanks to Joan McAlpine MSP for her bravery in having organised the meeting at which Meghan Murphy and Bec Wonders spoke so beautifully. Lovely to see such cross party support, so fantastic to see SNP, Labour and Conservative politicians breaking rank!
Continue readingEngender
Engender, who describe themselves as Scotland’s feminist organisation, have published an open letter following criticism of themselves and other officially funded women’s groups by MSP Joan McAlpine.
Engender’s opening gambit is to announce that they “neither ‘represent women and girls’, nor make any claim to.” This is quite an admission from a supposedly feminist group and rather begs the question what purpose Engender serves. They state that their “expertise comes from feminist scholarship, evidence drawn from delivery of services and programmes, and work with women and a wide range of women’s groups.” It would appear that Engender’s rather rarified expertise is from a rather narrow version of third wave feminist scholarship, while their “wide range” of women’s groups excludes all those who disagree on points of policy. We should note here that Forwomen.Scot members include those with decades of front line feminist activism – including at Greenham and Faslane and those who campaigned for gay rights when the stigma of AIDS overshadowed the community – as well as lawyers, academics, medics and those involved at the coal face of women’s services.
Continue readingNews roundup – week ending 12 Jan 2019
Sunday

Fabulous photograph of Rebekah Wershbale from the Daily Mail article: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6561259/Young-mother-barred-pub-wearing-T-shirt-saying-Woman-human-female.html
Can be summarised as:
TRA violence = bomb threats, smoke bombs, doxing, death threats, threats to livelihood.
Feminist violence = having an opinion while playing a board game in a pub.