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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 11h

Anyway if you're interested in a left wing movement that wants to deliver real change based in the present and planning for the future, rather than naval-gazing about past glories - Join the Scottish Greens.

Joined GPEW already? Good news, you can be a member of both!

members.greens.scot/join

Join the Scottish Greens

Join the Scottish Greens to be a part of the movement that will change Scotland. Membership gives you the right to vote in our open democratic structures, receive invitations to members only events ac...

members.greens.scot

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Queer Scot @queerscot.bsky.social · 20h

Omg 🤣

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Patrick Harvie MSP @patrickharvie.bsky.social · 1d

The whole point of human rights law is that the Government can be held to account when they breach people's rights.

If the Home Secretary doesn't like it, that's why she needs to hear it.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 1d

The system isn't broken, it's rigged. It's time for real change.

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 1d

I think it would have surprised even the most pessimistic if you'd told people during the 2024 campaign that a year into Government Starmer's team would be negatively briefing against the ECHR and Council of Europe for daring to question their assault on trans rights

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 1d

📺Scottish Greens Party Political Broadcast.

Tuesday 14 October, 18:25 STV & 18:55 BBC One Scotland.

Scottish Greens Party Political Broadcast.

Live on Tuesday 14 October, 18:25 on STV & 18:55 on BBC One Scotland.

An image of Gillian Mackay and Ross Greer in a woodland area.

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Queer Scot @queerscot.bsky.social · 1d

Scottish Greens conference this weekend so I'll probably spend it in the toilet lol

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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 1d

The Supreme Court decision is “clear”.

A clear breach of trans people’s human rights:

Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 1d

Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int

Strasbourg 14/10/2025

www.coe.int

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Patrick Harvie MSP @patrickharvie.bsky.social · 2d

👏👏👏

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 2d

We’re too smart and abortion rights are too embedded and socially accepted for the ADF to succeed here, say guys who’ve uncritically promoted anti-trans activists funded by the same people and using the same lawyers for a decade

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Rainbow Greens @sgprainbowgreens.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder: Our Future Relationship with GPEW

Tomorrow evening we will be discussing our relationship with the @greenparty.org.uk

If you’re an LGBTQ+ member of the Scottish Greens, please get in touch and come along.

Member Discussion: Our Future Relationship with GPEW (Green Party of England & Wales)

Tuesday 14th October at 7pm.

Please email: rainbow@scottishgreens.org.uk for a link to join online.

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Queer Scot @queerscot.bsky.social · 2d

They have anti-LGBT and landlord politicians heavily involved and have never called it out

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Guy Ingerson @guyingerson.bsky.social · 2d

Due to unforeseen circumstances and poor health (I’m on the mend), I’ve not been as active as usual.

However, I will be helping to facilitate the Rainbow Greens discussion on relations with the Green Party of England & Wales tomorrow evening.

Hope to see you there!

Rainbow Greens @sgprainbowgreens.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder: Our Future Relationship with GPEW

Tomorrow evening we will be discussing our relationship with the @greenparty.org.uk

If you’re an LGBTQ+ member of the Scottish Greens, please get in touch and come along.

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Queer Scot @queerscot.bsky.social · 2d

With our conference coming up shortly it definitely won't be decided then however there may be other means to make it happen before the Scottish elections....

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Queer Scot @queerscot.bsky.social · 2d

members.greens.scot/join

Join the Scottish Greens

Join the Scottish Greens to be a part of the movement that will change Scotland. Membership gives you the right to vote in our open democratic structures, receive invitations to members only events ac...

members.greens.scot

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Queer Scot @queerscot.bsky.social · 2d

I will be voting against any motion for the Scottish Greens to work with Your Party

Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 4d

Great discussion at TWT on how the left must unite — Your Party and the Greens — to keep Farage out of Downing Street.

But unity isn’t uniformity. Your Party will be truly anti-imperialist: no diplomatic ties with a genocidal, apartheid Israeli state and no greenwashing NATO.

Join us: yourparty.uk

Photo of Zarah, Zack Polanski, Amna Abdullatif from We Deserve Better and Abubakr Nanabawa from The Muslim Vote

Zarah speaking to a packed room at The World Transformed

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Queer Scot @queerscot.bsky.social · 2d

Meeting on Tuesday for the Rainbow Greens to discuss this very thing. As with everything in politics the process is slow though

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Queer Scot @queerscot.bsky.social · 3d

They also argue for seperatism from men including giving up male children and becoming 'political lesbians' and features quite a few of the current 'gender critical' movement

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 5d

Following the trans action in Brighton last night in protest of the deeply transphobic FiLiA organisation, I encourage everyone to watch this video (originally created for BBC) where Julie Bindel and other ‘gender critical’ transphobes admit to violence and arson!

Bindel is a hypocrite!

V. Engle, Angry Wimmin, BBC 4, 11 October 2007

YouTube video by Dylan Sebastian Evans

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Queer Scot @queerscot.bsky.social · 3d

Just the whole "protect the dolls" thing. I am not a doll but a real human being..... Heck I'm definitely not even the most feminine woman

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Queer Scot @queerscot.bsky.social · 3d

Bravery is outwith the SNP's dictionary

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Queer Scot @queerscot.bsky.social · 3d

Actually not a fan of being called a "Doll" 🙄

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 3d

Men like Piers Morgan have found women in trans women who it is socially acceptable to abuse.

Every time they do this stuff they are telling you how they'd treat cis women if they could get away with it.

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Queer Scot @queerscot.bsky.social · 8d

Gave the cats a treat though of course one of them is asleep on the old one so can't move it yet lol

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Rainbow Greens @sgprainbowgreens.bsky.social · 8d

Meting next week to discuss after the election of @zackpolanski.bsky.social if it's time to rebuild links between the Scottish Greens and Green Party of England and Wales

Rainbow Greens meeting for a member discussion on our relationship with GPEW on the 14th October at 7pm

Any member wishing to join should email rainbow@scottishgreens.org.uk

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Gillian Mackay MSP @gillianmacmsp.bsky.social · 8d

More and more people are joining our movement.

The Scottish Greens have already started improving the lives of millions. But we can and will go further.

Be part of it - members.greens.scot/join

Gillian Mackay - Scottish Greens co-leader - asking people to join the movement.

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