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"Use simple language, everyday words whenever you can. No jargon. No abbreviations."
Easier, inclusive communication leads to better outcomes for individuals, communities, services and Scotland.
@ScotGov and its partners have today published the Inclusive Communications Toolkit for public bodies.
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Dr Kath Murray retweeted
Proof copies! Now for spotting any errors, etc. My debut essay collection 'Strange Times' out soon! Typography/ design by Gerry Cambridge. Back cover blurbs from Suzanne Moore, Polly Clark, and Gerard Carruthers - will share soon! Turtle by KitchenSink. All failures my own. 🐢
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If this were any field other than medicine the conduct alleged here would be worthy of criminal investigation.
‘For Cass, the scandal that has unfolded in Brighton “dwarfs” that of the Tavistock’s Gids. She called on the GMC to immediately suspend Hall. “I really would want to ask why he still has a licence to practise.”’
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‘For Cass, the scandal that has unfolded in Brighton “dwarfs” that of the Tavistock’s Gids. She called on the GMC to immediately suspend Hall. “I really would want to ask why he still has a licence to practise.”’
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Dr Kath Murray retweeted
I don’t think many MPs understand the terrifying significance of placing this highly contested area into **criminal law**
We would be entering the territory of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible: teenage children denouncing parents
This was a really good, wide-ranging conversation with the wonderful @MrMennoTweets. In this part we discuss the iniquitous draft Conversion Practices Bill. If you're not up to speed on it please watch, and follow the links for further reading
Dr Kath Murray retweeted
The state and pension funds are not going to multiply the amount of money they have available, so what this is about diluting pension and benefits for women, overwhelmingly, and generally trapping women more firmly in abusive households, Inc in old age. Cos Scottish Greens.
Dr Kath Murray retweeted
Speaking on the stage of a venue whose director has made it perfectly clear to me they will *never* allow me to hire again, despite my having sold it out several times for both my own shows and others I programmed, our former First Minister dares talks about 'cancel culture'. Which *she* has been part of creating. Fun.
Dr Kath Murray retweeted
This is the most South Ayrshire thing I have ever heard.
Dr Kath Murray retweeted
Good reporting here. This is a very damning sentence:
“Although Doyle at first denied to the tribunal he knew Hall before this, it emerged during the tribunal that he had previously had a number of mentoring meetings with the GP.”
The GP referred to in that statement, Hall, is the trans one who was prescribing the drugs to confused children, not the safeguarding one who was worried about it.
GP says she was forced out of job after raising concerns about gender treatment bbc.in/48bBcgS
Dr Kath Murray retweeted
Extraordinary testimony from Baroness Cass yesterday on the profile of children who will be part of the *Puberty Blockers Trial*. Little kids who have been 'socially transitioned' from early childhood. Harmed by their parents - reinforced by the State... @Transgendertrd 1/
Dr Kath Murray retweeted
OK, it’s come round a bit faster than I expected.
Scottish Green activists push for legal recognition of polyamory trib.al/11BrUjn
Dr Kath Murray retweeted
1/ This is getting silly. Quite apart from the merits of the debate this letter from the under secretary of state to the pre legislative scrutiny committee is unacceptably brief, inadequately addresses the concerns and is just pure lazy. What on earth are civil servants doing?
Dr Kath Murray retweeted
If Salman Rushdie’s fatwa happened today, how many of these signatories would sign a letter supporting him? Most would be too afraid, many would think he deserved it. I doubt Rooney herself would support him.
The comparison is fatuous and disgraceful.
If you ever sought out the novels of Sally Rooney in bookshops – when that was still possible – you’d know they sit in the fiction stacks adjacent to the novels of another SR whose books have been withdrawn in dastardly political circumstances. Until last week, “Rooney” and “Rushdie” had little in common beyond being shelfmates; now they have more than just a physical proximity.
@tanjil_rashid_: This is censorship by other means newstatesman.com/comment/202…
“None of these people ever imagined that women’s and girls’ rights could be removed at the whim of employers and the state and, unfortunately, women can no longer rely on what would once have been their obvious champions: trade unions.”
I wrote a new piece about women’s rights and whether or not I want trans people dead. (Spoiler: I don’t)👇
jkrowling.com/opinions/an-up…
A case in point.
Yet another union betraying women.
The British Medical Association (BMA), the doctors’ trade union, has published a lengthy statement opposing the NHS’s new single-sex guidance.
It repeatedly raises concerns about trans people’s privacy, dignity and safety. But where is the recognition of women’s need for those same protections?
Women get a brief mention - but only to suggest that those who don’t look feminine enough may be challenged when using single-sex spaces.
Nothing about why female patients and staff need those spaces in the first place.
Link to full statement below 👇
Dr Kath Murray retweeted
Yet another union betraying women.
The British Medical Association (BMA), the doctors’ trade union, has published a lengthy statement opposing the NHS’s new single-sex guidance.
It repeatedly raises concerns about trans people’s privacy, dignity and safety. But where is the recognition of women’s need for those same protections?
Women get a brief mention - but only to suggest that those who don’t look feminine enough may be challenged when using single-sex spaces.
Nothing about why female patients and staff need those spaces in the first place.
Link to full statement below 👇
“Rowling underscores the class dimension… rebuking all those affluent women with carefully cultivated, status-seeking opinions. The ones who denounce ordinary women who find their freedom of expression assailed, their changing rooms invaded…” 🎁 article
telegraph.co.uk/gift/45c3be9…
Dr Kath Murray retweeted
1/ We’ve written to the Secretary of State for Equalities concerning misinformation that appeared in an article she wrote over the weekend. It’s important that the debate around the draft conversion bill is accurate and the Minister should promote this.
gaymensnetwork.co.uk/letters
Dr Kath Murray retweeted
I wrote a new piece about women’s rights and whether or not I want trans people dead. (Spoiler: I don’t)👇
jkrowling.com/opinions/an-up…
Dr Kath Murray retweeted
The same should apply to pronouns in emails.
I apply this prohibition to myself. It’s tempting to have a gender critical email signature, but I am able to see that doing this risks alienating the recipient. If they are a student, that’s out of order. 1/2 telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
Dr Kath Murray retweeted
It cannot be said often enough that drawing parallels between Rooney and Rushdie is incredibly offensive, and in many cases I think deliberately so (particularly since a lot of those supporting Rooney have never defended Rushdie to begin with).
If you ever sought out the novels of Sally Rooney in bookshops – when that was still possible – you’d know they sit in the fiction stacks adjacent to the novels of another SR whose books have been withdrawn in dastardly political circumstances. Until last week, “Rooney” and “Rushdie” had little in common beyond being shelfmates; now they have more than just a physical proximity.
@tanjil_rashid_: This is censorship by other means newstatesman.com/comment/202…