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mandy rhodes
@holyroodmandy
MD & Editor of @holyrooddaily "the kind of magazine the Italian Camorra might subsidise...a glossy, vapid pile of nothingness" PPA UK columnist of year & @EHRC
- Isla Bumba tells the judge she has not seen the changing room at the heart of this case to which judge says 'so you don't know what we are talking about'. *head in hands
- Dr Upton: "I don't think there are only two kinds of bodies that can make babies." Naomi Cunningham: "is there a third body..."
- Sandie Peggie says she doesn't believe that women and children should be treated the way they are under Sharia Law.
- Q: “Dad, what side of history were you on?” A: “The side that put on balaclavas and attacked women of my mother’s age in front of a statue of the leader of the suffragettes and taught them a lesson in what feminism was all about. Women need to be put in their place, son.”
- Naomi Cunningham: "when people want to make babies...broadly speaking if you are going to produce babies, you need one that produces sperm and one that produces eggs...." Dr Upton: "not necessarily..."
- Sandie Peggie was repeatedly asked to respect confidentiality while meanwhile consultants shared information, an email group was set up which included consultants, the investigator & Dr Upton to share updates, and noone else was it appears reminded of confidentiality.
- Sandie Peggie says growing up the term 'pakis' was just used in normal language & her first job was working in a shop called 'Paki Ali's' and she had a good relationship with Ali. She says she understands that is not politically correct now but at the time that's how it was used.
- Scottish Government has lost the legal case about ‘what is a woman’ so what now?
- It would be good if Scottish editors could agree on our approach to pronouns in the Sandie Peggie case because our words are being looked at internationally and I don’t know about the rest of you but I came into journalism as a seeker and reporter of truth and words matter.
- I’ve always felt uncomfortable with the whole preferred pronoun thing because I want to be kind but the reality is, that as soon as you call a man a ‘she’ you’re on the slippery slope to where we are now. A man can’t be a woman.
- Female barrister says it is @MForstater 'belief' that TW are male to which Forstater replies 'it is a fact' to which the barrister for Fife Health board reiterates that Forstater is not a biological expert...
- Returning to work following an 8-week suspension, the solution Sandie Peggie was offered was, different department, different work pattern & with senior supervision [note: she had been a nurse of 30 years with an unblemished record] - ED says that was about giving her 'support'.
