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Anyone hear #PatrickHarvie on the radio this am? Accusing women defending their rights of being transphobic, comparing us to racists & the old right-wing funding. I think #HarvieHatesWomen from 2.18. @scottishgreens @patrickharvie
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000v97s2
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000v97s2
#PatrickHarvie accusing groups of women of trying to attack marginalised groups like trans people, with no acknowledgement that allowing men to self ID as women impacts legal women's rights. #HarvieHatesWomen
#QuestionsForHarvie Why were the Greens whipped to vote against the amendment to allow crime victims to select the sex of their medical examiner, such as intimate exams after a rape? #HarvieHatesWomen
#QuestionsForHarvie @patrickharvie Is there a difference between sex and gender in law? #HarvieHatesWomengender defined in law
#QuestionsForHarvie @patrickharvie Is a transwoman a woman in law? When considering the protected characteristic of sex, birth sex is what is considered (and in *some* circumstances legal sex) , so the answer is no #HarvieHatesWomen
https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/our-work/news/our-statement-sex-and-gender-reassignment-legal-protections-and-language
https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/our-work/news/our-statement-sex-and-gender-reassignment-legal-protections-and-language
#QuestionsForHarvie @patrickharvie Do @scottishgreens have a manifesto item which proposes the adoption of Yogyakarta Principles into Scots law which could see women “cease to exist as a legal category"? Yes #HarvieHatesWomen https://twitter.com/mbmpolicy/status/1383334400067194891?s=20
#QuestionsForHarvie @patrickharvie Why do you accuse women of creating a "horrible and very hostile backlash against trans people"? Is it because we support the sex-based protections in the Equality Act? #HarvieHatesWomen
#QuestionsForHarvie @patrickharvie Are women entitled to single-sex activities (sports, for example), spaces (rape shelters), all women shortlists (provided for in law to balance the under representation of females)? All supported by the Equality Act? #HarvieHatesWomen
#QuestionsForHarvie @patrickharvie Why do you state that women's rights "has to include all women, & that includes transwomen", include males who have self ID'd as women? Including people like Alex here, a "trans lesbian"? #HarvieHatesWomen https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/meet-the-trans-woman-queering-gender-with-her-full-beard_n_55affb34e4b0a9b948538d24?ri18n=true
#QuestionsForHarvie @patrickharvie Do @scottishgreens support, and will you continue to support, the sex-based protections for women and men in the Equality Act? #HarvieHatesWomen
As someone who has voted Green (in the distant past (before they decided their hatred for women was more important than, oh, climate change) I am sick of elected representatives accusing women expressing their democratic right to retain their legal protections of being
transphobic, hateful, hostile, right wing & wanting to ban abortion (yes, he really is this mad to suggest liberal women want this). I can only conclude that @scottishgreens have nothing to offer female voters as @patrickharvie opens his mouth it's to prove #HarvieHatesWomen
