I'm confused I thought the case was a stunning victory for women on Monday night? The coverage seemed so positive!
11.12.2025 16:03 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0@finnobeyts.bsky.social
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I'm confused I thought the case was a stunning victory for women on Monday night? The coverage seemed so positive!
11.12.2025 16:03 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Yep, and the plane on the way out is easily the emptiest plane Iโve been on
11.12.2025 15:57 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Europe is not ancient. It is seventy years old, still fragile, and has to be tended with careful, caring hands. Proponents of a racial, let alone religious fundamentalist, vision of European civilisation are an inherent enemy of that concept.
11.12.2025 10:57 โ ๐ 79 ๐ 15 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1Iโm reading his Wikipedia page and Jesus Christ itโs enough to make me think the printing press was a mistake
11.12.2025 11:07 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0To make it even worse, the writer is Jewish and his family fled to the US to escape antisemitism in Europe
11.12.2025 11:05 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I think the opposite, the UK government will be more likely the allow a referendum theyโre more confident in winning
11.12.2025 11:01 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0A second independence referendum does feel fairly inevitable, it might be that Westminster allows both. Rejoining the EU would probably reduce the case for independence
11.12.2025 10:54 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0You could say the heart and the core of the contest disappears with the absence of these 5. And the EBU should always remember that weโd prefer these 5 countries with a clear modern record of putting music over politics in over nations that misuse the contest for propagandistic motives. #eurovision
11.12.2025 07:36 โ ๐ 23 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0How many pieces came out in the New York Times and the Atlantic accusing trans people of erasing the word woman. Here's the Trump administration literally banning the use of the word and not a peep.
11.12.2025 02:16 โ ๐ 1001 ๐ 379 ๐ฌ 10 ๐ 7They always talk about getting rid of the Gillick competency despite it having never existed in Scotland (we have actual laws for that kinda thing)
10.12.2025 22:26 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Hwfg
10.12.2025 17:23 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0I actually donโt think the BBC should give a platform to the far right. They should be treated with, at best, disgust and disdain at every turn.
10.12.2025 08:39 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Probably because they all have a case so thick you wouldnโt notice
10.12.2025 08:38 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Every so often I look at insta comments and Americans genuinely think thereโs an issue with crime here. Iโm not sure if theyโre stupid or just gullible
10.12.2025 08:11 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Jesus
09.12.2025 15:37 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A false equivalence? ๐ฌ
Accused of being sexual predators, esp to children โ
Obsessed with this group and toilets โ
Accused of living an unhealthy 'lifestyle' โ
An entire group assigned a niche fetish as a defining characteristic โ
Accused of 'recruiting'/indocrinating impressionable people โ
this is whose reputation they're trying to whitewash www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...
09.12.2025 12:17 โ ๐ 333 ๐ 127 ๐ฌ 22 ๐ 28LGBT+ people in Scotland should see the Record the same way Scousers see the Sun imo
09.12.2025 11:26 โ ๐ 349 ๐ 76 ๐ฌ 15 ๐ 3Oh yeah I definitely get that a lot too, made for some interesting driving lessons
09.12.2025 10:51 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0When I say Iโm bad at pronouns, I donโt mean it in a transphobic way, I mean if thereโs a he and a she in a sentence, I will get them confused. I regularly misgender cis people.
09.12.2025 10:43 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Thanks for your support Ben ๐
09.12.2025 10:07 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Oh look, coverage that isn't premised on the briefings folks got from FWS or Peggie's lawyers.
08.12.2025 17:23 โ ๐ 35 ๐ 14 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Screenshot of a Tweet from Jackie Baillie (@jackiebmsp) on Jul 23 2025: The SNP should focus on getting NHS waiting times down rather than wasting taxpayersโ money on tribunals attacking hardworking staff [link to scotsman.com: Here's where the blame for NHS Fife-Sandie Peggie case really lies]
Screenshot of a tweet from Melanie Ward MP (@melanie_ward) on Jul 21, 2025: This morning @clairebakermsp & I met with Sandie Peggie, who I have spoken in support of in Parliament. Sandie has 30 yearsโ service as a nurse at the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy & should never have had to take legal action to uphold her right to change in a single sex space.
Screenshot of a tweet from Joani Reid MP (@JoaniReid) on 8th Dec 2025: What happened to Sandie Peggie was a disgrace. Her harassment has been enabled by a warped NHS culture and fostered by a Scottish Government that refused to listen to womenโs concerns. It allowed the ideology of a small group of unrepresentative activists spread like wildfire through our institutions. Those in NHS Fife who played any part in this must be accountable and I struggle to see how they stay in post. They have wasted masses of NHS money on their trans rights crusade. Enough is enough.
Screenshot of a tweet from Holyrood Sources (@HolyroodSources) on 18 Feb 2025: EXCLUSIVE: Anas Sarwar and Jackie Baillie say they support nurse Sandie Peggie. The Scottish Labour leader tells us: "Knowing what we know now, we would not have supported the [Gender Recognition Reform] bill." @CalumAM @akmaciver @geoffaberdein
Jackie Baillie, Mel Ward, Claire Baker, Joani Reid and Anas Sarwar all publicly backed Sandie Peggie in her employment tribunal case.
Yesterday that tribunal ruled that Peggie unlawfully harassed Beth Upton.
Scottish Labour must now apologise to Dr Upton for this catastrophic failure of judgement.
Quite a lot of, simply, lying and unjustified valorisation of a nasty person on the front of papers today. Personally I put a lot of stock in honest reporting but I guess when I do such things as a hobby rather than my job I don't have to dance to the whims of the hate campaign gripping the nation.
09.12.2025 09:02 โ ๐ 111 ๐ 22 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0If I had ยฃ1 for every time for every time Iโd opened my earphones case and found one missing, Iโd have ยฃ2 which isnโt a lot but youโd think Iโd learn eventually
09.12.2025 09:05 โ ๐ 22 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Staggering to watch pretty much every news outlet in the country report that Sandy Peggie has won her tribunal case despite her losing on almost every count, and despite the ruling stating that the Supreme Court FWS judgement does *not* require trans women to be excluded from women's spaces.
08.12.2025 13:54 โ ๐ 170 ๐ 60 ๐ฌ 9 ๐ 2Decision in the Sandie Peggie case.
She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...
Sandie Peggie's claims against Upton dismissed & most of her claims against NHS Fife are dismissed. Questions remain for NHS Fife over the process they pursued, which led to Peggie's harassment claim being partially upheld.
The tribunal ruled Upton's use of female changing facilities not unlawful.
Headline: Pity the Labour Staffers Sub-header: Morale has been hit by the direction and effectiveness of the government and the party
Please feel bad for the staffers making ยฃ50k/yr to monster trans people/disabled people/immigrants/etc.
08.12.2025 11:46 โ ๐ 138 ๐ 26 ๐ฌ 9 ๐ 8Iโm assuming you havenโt seen their leaderโs insta posts about their policies for the next government? There main one is heโs a dentist and heโll clear the backlog
08.12.2025 11:49 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0