🧵An important factual thread from @Broonjunior KC, in contrast to some of the deliberate misinformation doing the rounds. Also worth reading interview from Baroness Kennedy, a lifelong advocate for women's rights who led the working group on misogyny. theguardian.com/law/2021/feb/2…
🧵An important factual thread from @Broonjunior KC, in contrast to some of the deliberate misinformation doing the rounds. Also worth reading interview from Baroness Kennedy, a lifelong advocate for women's rights who led the working group on misogyny. theguardian.com/law/2021/feb/2…
Baroness Kennedy’s report clearly recommended that the proposed offences in a misogyny bill should apply where the victims are ‘women or those who perpetrators perceive to be women’ this aligns with existing legislation protecting people from abuse that is motivated by prejudice.
If a man threatens to rape a woman, he is unlikely to know if the victim is born a woman or a trans woman. That behaviour should logically be seen as misogynistic. Again, this aligns with existing legislation protecting people from abuse motivated by prejudice. This is not new.
@HumzaYousaf No one who agrees that a man can be a woman is a feminist, whatever their personal history. Feminism does not centre the rights of males, irrespective of their internal delusions.
@HumzaYousaf No one perceives a man to be a woman, but your law will be used by men, against women who say "no men in female spaces". Never has one man done so much harm to Scotland in living memory.