Thread by @ForwomenScot, A thread for all who say "pronouns cost nothing".Many of us fighting [...]

A thread for all who say "pronouns cost nothing".

Many of us fighting the creep of self-ID might well have agreed with you once upon a time. For all the insults hurled at us, we do not set out to hurt.

Our government, however, has made it an issue. https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-scottish-government-redefining-woman/?fbclid=IwAR1IR0-BM78cUu3E9yotOurbn9_yLLAs6rlZS7eh7IqZzE9Ax4E-3sc8vlY

For Women Scotland (FWS) is a group of ordinary women from across Scotland who campaign to protect and strengthen women’s and children’s rights.

Two year ago, they tried to use this good nature against us when they came up with the definitions in the GRPBA.

This act specifically makes mention of "pronouns" in determining if someone with a trans identity can take a place reserved for a woman. https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-scottish-government-redefining-woman/?fbclid=IwAR1IR0-BM78cUu3E9yotOurbn9_yLLAs6rlZS7eh7IqZzE9Ax4E-3sc8vlY

For Women Scotland (FWS) is a group of ordinary women from across Scotland who campaign to protect and strengthen women’s and children’s rights.

The level of proof required to claim a woman's identity as defined by GRPBA is so low as to be almost negligible: it does not require medical transition nor any outward change All that is needed is a name, a title on a utility bill, &, of course pronouns. https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-scottish-government-redefining-woman/?fbclid=IwAR1IR0-BM78cUu3E9yotOurbn9_yLLAs6rlZS7eh7IqZzE9Ax4E-3sc8vlY

For Women Scotland (FWS) is a group of ordinary women from across Scotland who campaign to protect and strengthen women’s and children’s rights.

Third person pronouns are, of course, in the gift of others.

Attempts to coerce the speech of women has ranged from #bekind

to demands that we be reported for hate speech or thrown off social media

Coupled with the lie that it "costs nothing". https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-scottish-government-redefining-woman/?fbclid=IwAR1IR0-BM78cUu3E9yotOurbn9_yLLAs6rlZS7eh7IqZzE9Ax4E-3sc8vlY

For Women Scotland (FWS) is a group of ordinary women from across Scotland who campaign to protect and strengthen women’s and children’s rights.

This Act makes it crystal clear, however, that there is a cost. A measurable one.

Something which apparently "costs nothing" could see a woman passed over for a space on a board reserved for a member of her sex because she was kind to a colleague. https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-scottish-government-redefining-woman/?fbclid=IwAR1IR0-BM78cUu3E9yotOurbn9_yLLAs6rlZS7eh7IqZzE9Ax4E-3sc8vlY

For Women Scotland (FWS) is a group of ordinary women from across Scotland who campaign to protect and strengthen women’s and children’s rights.

There is a cost to trans people too - esp TS. Social kindnesses have made it easier for them to navigate the world, but, as linguistics become attached to rights, this courtesy is being withdrawn. If rights depend on pronouns, not sex, then they matter. https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-scottish-government-redefining-woman/?fbclid=IwAR1IR0-BM78cUu3E9yotOurbn9_yLLAs6rlZS7eh7IqZzE9Ax4E-3sc8vlY

For Women Scotland (FWS) is a group of ordinary women from across Scotland who campaign to protect and strengthen women’s and children’s rights.

When students are told to declare pronouns at the start of tutorials, when people are told to put them in work emails or on conference badges, or risk ostracism & even disciplinary action, speech is being compelled. https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-scottish-government-redefining-woman/?fbclid=IwAR1IR0-BM78cUu3E9yotOurbn9_yLLAs6rlZS7eh7IqZzE9Ax4E-3sc8vlY

For Women Scotland (FWS) is a group of ordinary women from across Scotland who campaign to protect and strengthen women’s and children’s rights.

This is no longer about being kind, we are no facing unbearable choices where we may either lose our careers or lose our rights. There is no "cost free" scenario. https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-scottish-government-redefining-woman/?fbclid=IwAR1IR0-BM78cUu3E9yotOurbn9_yLLAs6rlZS7eh7IqZzE9Ax4E-3sc8vlY

For Women Scotland (FWS) is a group of ordinary women from across Scotland who campaign to protect and strengthen women’s and children’s rights.

Today, an MSP, who sat on the committee which wrote into law the notion that pronouns can act as a passport to take spaces reserved on public boards to redress sex-based imbalance, told women they were "bitches" if they refused to collude in this theft. https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-scottish-government-redefining-woman/?fbclid=IwAR1IR0-BM78cUu3E9yotOurbn9_yLLAs6rlZS7eh7IqZzE9Ax4E-3sc8vlY

For Women Scotland (FWS) is a group of ordinary women from across Scotland who campaign to protect and strengthen women’s and children’s rights.

Perhaps if Ms Ross really wanted women to "be kind" she, and others, should not have written law which turns compelled speech into rights.

If pronouns really "cost nothing" the gov should have thrown out this bill long ago.

As it is, they really cost. https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-scottish-government-redefining-woman/?fbclid=IwAR1IR0-BM78cUu3E9yotOurbn9_yLLAs6rlZS7eh7IqZzE9Ax4E-3sc8vlY

For Women Scotland (FWS) is a group of ordinary women from across Scotland who campaign to protect and strengthen women’s and children’s rights.

Apologies for typos (it was 5am).
*years - tweet 2
* now (not no) - tweet 8

And prob more!

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