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Queer Scot @queerscot.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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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Queer Scot @queerscot.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah I'm done with you

Queer Scot @queerscot.bsky.social · 2d

Not the same. Scottish Labour as an example are not a separate party from Labour. The Scottish Greens are not a branch of Green Party of England and Wales which is obvious from the name.

I'm suggesting the op used UK when in fact should have said England and Wales

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 2d

🚨BREAKING: Shetland has joined the global Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign against the genocidal regime in Israel!

Shetland to boycott Israel. Islands council backs Green motion to join boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign.

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Queer Scot @queerscot.bsky.social · 2d

Scotland where the Scottish Greens exist and are a separate party as are the Green Party Northern Ireland

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Queer Scot @queerscot.bsky.social · 2d

The Green Party is mentioned and that's not UK wide 🤷

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Queer Scot @queerscot.bsky.social · 2d

Hello darkness my old friend 😁

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Queer Scot @queerscot.bsky.social · 2d

Scotland exists just saying

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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 3d

An excellent new article outlining all that is wrong with the Cass Review, condemning its harmful impact on UK policy and practice, and calling it a failure of evidence-based medicine. Written by those involved in trans children's healthcare in Australia.

www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...

Cass Review does not guide care for trans young people

Good medicine is guided by the values of the patient, not those of a clinician, politician or commentator. The Cass Review, lacking expertise and compromised by implicit stigma and misinformation, doe...

www.mja.com.au

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Queer Scot @queerscot.bsky.social · 4d

Guess it's email day again 🙄

Email to Neil Gray MSP

Looking at this I'd say this is a de facto ban on trans healthcare with only moving to informed consent as a possible solution

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clinic-files-some-people-in-scotland-will-never-get-a-gender-clinic-appointment-on-a-224-year-waitlist/

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Queer Scot @queerscot.bsky.social · 4d

Ah but, ah but, the SNP are progressive lol 🙄

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Queer Scot @queerscot.bsky.social · 5d

This is a de facto ban on trans healthcare

Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 5d

Glasgow Gender Clinic now has a waiting time of 224 years. The average across the UK is now 25 years.

This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 5d

This amazing article from @vic-parsons.bsky.social via @wearequeeraf.com shows the absolute criminal state of trans healthcare in the UK.

Scotland has a 224 year wait for a first appointment. Yes, you read that right.

www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 5d

"That flotilla was trying to do what the governments of the world have failed to do"

@ross-greer.bsky.social speaking at the emergency protest for the Global Sumud Flotilla in Edinburgh.

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Queer Scot @queerscot.bsky.social · 6d

I think they actually like it though...

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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 6d

my number one reason for supporting independence is now that it would let us end the government-mandated harassment of queer kids

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 6d

The UK 'just protecting children'

"Teachers say trans pupils 'limiting food and drink' to avoid school toilets"

news.stv.tv/politics/tea...

Teachers say trans pupils 'limiting food and drink' to avoid school toilets

The new guidance said students will be asked to use toilet facilities which correspond to their biological sex.

news.stv.tv

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Ross Greer (he/him) @ross-greer.bsky.social · 6d

Our thoughts, prayers and solidarity are with the victims and the whole community at Heaton Park synagogue. This horrific attack coming on Yom Kippur will only compound the pain felt by our Jewish friends and neighbours.

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Queer Scot @queerscot.bsky.social · 6d

It might sound extreme but I did actually suggest UDI to Neil Gray MSP one day as surely it can't be any messier than where we are now 🙃

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Queer Scot @queerscot.bsky.social · 6d

Not where I wanna be but every time I see "women and girls" I now just assume they're not talking about people like me 😢

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Queer Scot @queerscot.bsky.social · 6d

Just change the law instead of being a transphobe!!

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Queer Scot @queerscot.bsky.social · 6d

One of the reasons I blocked that Labour guy who's really against independence as yeah right now I'd take it, even if it made me poorer, so I'd have some human rights

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Queer Scot @queerscot.bsky.social · 6d

I had a young lass who'd left home due to abusive parents move into my spare room and she was shocked that we had pads in the bathroom cabinet for my gf. I was like where else would they be 🤔 but her dad had totally shamed them about periods 😒

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chiller @thechiller.bsky.social · 6d

It shouldn't be legal to pass legislation restricting people's access to public spaces without being able to demonstrate that their access to that place causes harm.

And "I've got feelings about it because I hate those people" isn't harm, it's in the history books under "Jim Crow laws".

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Queer Scot @queerscot.bsky.social · 6d

They also, somehow, need to prove it is or isn't your birth certificate

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