The Labour Campaign for LGBT+ Rights in Scotland 🏴 Affiliated to @ScottishLabour 🌹 Campaigning for Equality since 1975 🏳️🌈 Out to Win ✊
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LGBT+ Labour Scotland retweeted
Scottish Labour’s existing position is correct. The days of attempting to medicalise LGBT+ people should be consigned to the history books
UK Labour to commit to keeping a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria as part of its planned reforms to gender recognition.
That is another policy divergence from Scottish Labour who, in December, were whipped to back SNP reforms.
theguardian.com/politics/202…
LGBT+ Labour Scotland retweeted
Scottish Labour devolved policy on GRA reform hasn’t been ‘overruled’. Today social justice spokesperson Paul O’Kane reiterated our policy in favour of self-id, which is consistent with how we voted last year. Due to UK gov blocking the Bill, it’ll be settled in court.
Sarwar overruled as UK Labour u-turns on gender recognition and rules out self-id heraldscotland.com/news/2367…
LGBT+ Labour Scotland retweeted
#Pride🌈 is about affirmation and joy, but it is also a protest.
We must resist the Tories' attempt to block us from extending trans rights.
Solidarity for #PrideMonth and always 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
LGBT+ Labour Scotland retweeted
The hard-won rights of LGBTQ people can never be taken for granted.
This is not a retrospective issue. We still have more to do to make Scotland fairer, safer and more equal, including ending conversion therapy. I hope all candidates are committed to robust legislation.
NEW: Kate Forbes tells @Channel4News she would have voted against equal marriage.
But as First Minister she will not 'row back on rights that already exist.'
LGBT+ Labour Scotland retweeted
I sit across from Kate Forbes every week.
My marriage isn’t up for debate.
These rights were hard fought for and hard won for me and hundreds of others across Scotland.
They are celebrated by our allies, families and friends.
Our First Minister must stand up for them.
NEW: Kate Forbes tells @Channel4News she would have voted against equal marriage.
But as First Minister she will not 'row back on rights that already exist.'
LGBT+ Labour Scotland retweeted
As a gay married woman, it matters to me whether my First Minister believes that my marriage is valid.
It tells me whether they believe in my equality and dignity as a citizen.
Any First Minister should be able to answer that question: clearly, directly, and positively.
LGBT+ Labour Scotland retweeted
Candidate views on abortion and same sex marriage are absolutely fair game for scrutiny in a leadership contest.
If you are a progressive, these are fundamental, red line issues.
LGBT+ Labour Scotland retweeted
Central to the disagreement between Holyrood and the UK Government on Gender Recognition is the extent to which self identification as the basis of a Gender Recognition Certificate puts women and girls at risk from predators.
LGBT+ Labour Scotland retweeted
Whether the s35 Order is justified depends on reasons advanced by HMG for saying GRR has adverse effect on UK equality law. For the reasons I have tweeted those reasons do not begin to justify its use. It’s a nuclear weapon used in a minor skirmish.
LGBT+ Labour Scotland retweeted
Great turnout for the Glasgow rally against the blocking of the Gender Recognition Reform Bill!
ALT A large group of people gathered on Buchanan gallery steps in Glasgow to protest the blocking of the GRR Bill, with trans flags flying alongside many homemade signs and banners
LGBT+ Labour Scotland retweeted
We've said it before many times, but it's important to keep saying it - personal abuse and threats of violence are not acceptable in Scottish politics, on any side of any debate.
LGBT+ Labour Scotland retweeted
150 amendments, years of discussion and debate, an overwhelming cross party majority (86 votes for and 39 against) for the act and passed in despite of numerous blocking tactics – GRA can now be viewed as the ‘considered view of the Scottish Parliament’
thepinknews.com/2022/12/22/s…
Thank you for your solidarity Paul!
I was proud to speak outside the UK Government HQ alongside @LGBTLabScot members in solidarity with the trans community.
It is outrageous that trans people are targets in a Tory culture war. The majority of Scottish Parliamentarians stand with them.🏳️⚧️
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
ALT Paul Sweeney MSP talking to trans activists and allies outside the UK Government HQ in Edinburgh earlier today
ALT Paul Sweeney MSP talking to trans activists and allies outside the UK Government HQ in Edinburgh earlier today
ALT Paul Sweeney MSP talking to trans activists and allies outside the UK Government HQ in Edinburgh earlier today
LGBT+ Labour Scotland retweeted
I was proud to speak outside the UK Government HQ alongside @LGBTLabScot members in solidarity with the trans community.
It is outrageous that trans people are targets in a Tory culture war. The majority of Scottish Parliamentarians stand with them.🏳️⚧️
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
ALT Paul Sweeney MSP talking to trans activists and allies outside the UK Government HQ in Edinburgh earlier today
ALT Paul Sweeney MSP talking to trans activists and allies outside the UK Government HQ in Edinburgh earlier today
ALT Paul Sweeney MSP talking to trans activists and allies outside the UK Government HQ in Edinburgh earlier today
LGBT+ Labour Scotland retweeted
If all discussions in the media about trans people's lives were handled like this, there would be no moral panic.
Trans advocate, and friend of the show, @hannahw253 explains Scotland's blocked Gender Recognition Bill and addresses some of the fears linked to it. 👇
#Lorraine
LGBT+ Labour Scotland retweeted
Proud to speak outside Downing Street alongside @LGBTLabour MPs in solidarity with our trans siblings.
The trans community is not collateral damage. Trans rights are not a side issue. And trans people deserve a government that stands with them. 🏳️⚧️
ALT Lloyd Russell-Moyle, Olivia Blake, Angela Eagle, Kate Osborne and Nadia Whittome at trans rights protest organised by London Trans Pride
LGBT+ Labour Scotland retweeted
Cross-party group on global LGBT+ rights warns UK government of "politicising the lives of an already marginalised community". huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/g…
LGBT+ Labour Scotland retweeted
The Scottish Parliament passed the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill because trans people deserve to live with dignity.
The UK government cannot be trusted with trans rights, women’s rights or with devolution. Justice will prevail.
LGBT+ Labour Scotland retweeted
Brilliant from @MonicaLennon7.
A cynical power move by out of control Tories who want to wreck the progress we've made in Scotland so they can make life harder for trans people.
LGBT+ Labour Scotland retweeted
We have invited @ScotSecofState and @ShonaRobison to our meeting next Tuesday so that we can take evidence on the Section 35 order, relating to the Gender Recognition Reform Bill.
Letter to @ScotSecofState: ow.ly/kKR750MsPy4
Letter to @ShonaRobison: ow.ly/Eorh50MsPyc
