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Does a vibrator count as pelvic exercise? @GussieGrips Do orgasms help your pelvic floor. THEY HELP MORE THAN YOUR PELVIC FLOOR. You need cheering up. #FVFWomensFestival
@GussieGrips No science to back it up for sure. But sports science principles? Doing something better than nothing! Do a single person study and see how you crack on #FVFWomensFestival
@GussieGrips If we want boys who grow up not to be "accidentally abusive because they go their sex-ed from porn then maybe we should be teaching them about female pleasure and vibrators. #FVFWomensFestival
Q. for @LucyHunterB are the government holding off strengthening the equality act because of S35.
I think people invest too much in the government having a strategic approach. #FVFWomensFestival
I think people invest too much in the government having a strategic approach. #FVFWomensFestival
@LucyHunterB I don't think there was a great strategic plan, I don't think they want to amend the equality act. The EHRC have said where we are is fine, small numbers. #FVFWomensFestival
They came in behind scotgov to argue that GRC legal sex would superceded biological, before the Scot GRC change #FVFWomensFestival
With the conversion bill there will be casualties @MagiGibson. Have to try and get more input to it. As a former teacher and as a parent I took my duties very seriously & so did the Scot education system #FVFWomensFestival
@MagiGibson Scot Education system has slipped. You need to have a say, a full say on what happens to your child. Parents in England are taking children out of the schools they're in so the schools won't damage them #FVFWomensFestival
And @GussieGrips is now saying that we already have casualties - child detransitioners. MSPs were in tears listening to their stories.
Q. for Susan Smith @ForWomenScot. Is the press complicit? the Scotsman defamed JK Rowling. This week NS finally asked the tough questions and flip-flopped. #FVFWomensFestival
@ForWomenScot Once you get down to basics its indefensible. Some print media has been good but very little forensic examination on the TV and a lot of people get their news from TV #FVFWomensFestival
@ForWomenScot One of the things about the Tavistock was that it appeared on Newsnight, and then you see it enter into the national consciousness #FVFWomensFestival
Is repealing the GRA the only way to stop this @marstrina No. Men have been trying to simulate women for a very long time, you won't end that. #FVFWomensFestival
@marstrina To overturn a law has to sue. GRA: would be very difficult to conceive of a test case. It was brought in by a fudge. It was to prevent issues with marriage, which is technically made redundant by marriage equality but 20 years is a lot of water under the bridge #FVFWomensFestival
@marstrina Now @PankhurstEM says we absolutely must overturn the GRA. Service providers are terrified that they cannot turn away men because of the GRA. Also, it's a pointless piece of legislation because we will hit back with the Equality act etc. #FVFWomensFestival
Q for @MagiGibson and @Gillian_Philip are you aware pre-school books are pushing GI?
Magi. Yes, I find this very troubling. Should be about incl. but don't need to intro children to these notions. Why are we talking to children about these notions? #FVFWomensFestival
Magi. Yes, I find this very troubling. Should be about incl. but don't need to intro children to these notions. Why are we talking to children about these notions? #FVFWomensFestival
@MagiGibson @Gillian_Philip Children can grow up and play with their pals without us getting at them with all this stuff.
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@MagiGibson @Gillian_Philip @Gillian_Philip Agreee with Magi, children's books should represent the variety of human experience. But this is a confusing thing for a kid to be told that you can change sex. #FVFWomensFestival
Final speaker today is @GussieGrips on "how I was radicalised by Nicola sturgeon" #FVFWomensFestival
@GussieGrips I peaked a long time ago I work in women health and I have been exposed to medical misogyny for 30 years. They've been trying to do something about it but it's been 2000 years and it takes a while #FVFWomensFestival
@GussieGrips I'd give my opinion, and they listened and nothing changed. I'd speak to MSPs, I'd speak to the HoLs but last year Shona R said no man would ever pretend to be someone else to do harm to women #FVFWomensFestival
Hi there, we're back with @LucyHunterB talking about the Scottish Parliament & women. What the GRR Bill has taught us
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@LucyHunterB Going to look back over the last year & want to start a conversation. #FVFWomensFestival
@LucyHunterB Audience participation! Hands up if anyone attended proceedings in person (some). Hands up if watched online (lots). Hands up if you spoke to MSPs (lots)
Almost all hands up in the end #FVFWomensFestival
Almost all hands up in the end #FVFWomensFestival
Susan Smith from @ForWomenScot now giving an update on the bill and its effect on women. #FVFWomensFestival
@ForWomenScot What has happened since the bill has passed is unprecedented - and many of that is thanks to the people here today #FVFWomensFestival
@ForWomenScot amazing that on "the most consulted piece of legislation in history" they were so taken surprise by some of the downsides of the bill. Who could have known? #FVFWomensFestival
Magi and Gillian both touched on we need to be really clear about definitions. Language matters. Young people believe trans means the same as same sex attraction #FVFWomensFestival
They think being gay, being a butch lesbian etc. is the same as being trans #FVFWomensFestival
3 types of people when thinking about future bill.
Men: sexual kink. Not women.
Girls: not trans, but persuaded by social culture, changing body, sometimes by same-sex attraction. Need support #fvfwomensfestival
Men: sexual kink. Not women.
Girls: not trans, but persuaded by social culture, changing body, sometimes by same-sex attraction. Need support #fvfwomensfestival
We've now got @DalgetySusan with Gender reform, is compromise possible? #FVFWomensFestival
@DalgetySusan Talk today is inspired by the great Joanne Lomont. Like Anas Sarwar, but he has let every woman and girl in Scotland down #FVFWomensFestival
He has been cowardly over this issue #FVFWomensFestival
Now @Gillian_Philip is talking about TERFing in publiching #FVFWomensFestival
@Gillian_Philip Used to be a childrens author and now a truck driver, truck drivers much less sexist. They'll help if she struggles with a pallet, but they don't care that she's a woman. #FVFWomensFestival
@Gillian_Philip For 10 years was working for a publishing company, going on tour, making presentations, speaking in schools, writing etc. #FVFWomensFestival
Welcome back to #FVFWomensFestival with @marstrina who will be giving a potted history of feminism!
@marstrina Marina: Scottish feminism debut! Feminism comes in waves like hot flushes! Feminism is the largest and most radical movement in the world. #FVFWomensFestival
@marstrina It aims to change the social institutions of the world and free half of the population. People with no shared or cultural history will find it difficult to think of a shared present or future #FVFWomensFestival
Now @MagiGibson: One of the two cancelled women poets in Scotland since 2015 for speaking against self-ID #FVFWomensFestival
@MagiGibson Now removed from Scottish Book Trust for removing to sign up for new code of conduct has been on register for over 30 years. #FVFWomensFestival
@MagiGibson Poetry can be political and feminist. The very act of women writing poetry is feminist. Salma, Indian poet removed from school when menstruating. husband said he would throw acid on her face for writing. #FVFWomensFestival
Now speaking @PankhurstEM (trigger warning): Josie Jackson specialised in teen and barely legal "punched in face, get ripped, inside come out of you, viewed as object" #FVFWomensFestival
@PankhurstEM Women in this industry experience violence and degradation and this is the point. It's not a fantasy, this is a reality for these girls #FVFWomensFestival
@PankhurstEM Violent slaps, choking. Women are heard and seen having an orgasmic reaction to violence and pain. Normalises idea we get off on pain. #FVFWomensFestival
We now have @MaraMatria speaking #FVFWomensFestival
@MaraMatria What has changed in the last year - Elaine Miller has proved that journalists don't know what a vulva is!
@MaraMatria In terms of childbirth and repo rights. New report called Embrace. #FVFWomensFestival
@jane_mclenachan now speaking! #FVFWomensFestival
@jane_mclenachan Many of you will be familiar with social care and social work fields but by way of a quick reference to the regulatory context across the UK we're governed by the social service council but what we know #FVFWomensFestival
@jane_mclenachan (h/t to the evidence-based social work alliance - have a look at their twitter feed!)
First speaker @mickbrick54 now speaking! #FVFWomensFestival
@mickbrick54 Last year was fearful of the year ahead last year, telling the truth in this country is a revolutionary act. We continue to tell the trust. #FVFWomensFestival
@mickbrick54 We are burnished to steel. We are told there is no evidence predatory men have ever had to pretend to be anything else to abuse women. #FVFWomensFestival
