We have written to @AmnestyUK @amnesty @AmnestyScotland about the report which defamed our organisation and others.

Breaking off from JR for a moment to bring you latest issue of The Frontline, with a powerful piece by Iryna who lives in Sumy, NE Ukraine; @SusannaRustin on the power of women’s voices and @hollowood_zoe on *that* magnificent speech. Amazing women! frontlinewomen.substack.com

"As Susanna Rustin writes, every time she is dispirited about sexism the voices of women lift her up. This week, the courageous voices of Sandie, Alison, Norma and Zoe have lifted up thousands of women across the country. Sisters, when courage called, you were there."

Another case re unions. Today in the Outer House. Catch up below.

Thank you @tribunaltweets2 for live tweeting @adfemtus hearing today. And congratulations to Norma and Alison for taking the case. Outcome expected in around 12 weeks.

Observing the Equality Act is "kowtowing" and unions can make up other versions of the law they like better. Who knew? I guess employers can, too, then? What on earth has gone wrong with people? It's like waking up in the Night of The Living Dead.

A novel defence here - essentially saying that unions are not obliged to follow the law.

Interesting how many @UKLabour MPs are members of Community, 88 at my count and several cabinet ministers (see link) @Jonathan_Hinder did you know your union is in court today defending its Equality Strategy that appears to conflate women and non-binary persons to create on homogeneous group? See @tribunaltweets2 community-tu.org/who-we-are/…

Got to love chauvinist (in both senses) Americans. Dave is all over a thread about UK law using US examples.

Lads, the women are saying “NO”… That’s your cue to sod off. It’s really simple. What kind of socialist protests against women organising collectively within their own political party?

Good luck to Alison and Norma - the indomitable @adfemtus - at the Court of Session this morning. Trade union policies must comply with the Equality Act in relation to the protected characteristic of sex.

LWDS women are at the Court of Session in Edinburgh today to support @adfemtus at their hearing in the case against @CommunityUnion. We'll try to post some updates, but it won't be a @tribunaltweets-style running record - we're not sufficiently skilled!

A few screenshots in thread featuring posts from Ellie Mulreany who was discussed at the tribunal yesterday.

Morning. My report on Day 2 of Peggie v RCN: Trans-Organisational Madness. Weird things happen when gender ideology gets into an organisation. It's a sort of fear/taboo cognitive dissonance which prevents rational institutional thought. genderblog.net/peggie-v-rcn-…

Day Three in Calgary, and the end of an extraordinary Recovery Capital Conference. If yesterday was emotional for me personally, today gave me the chance to stand back and think about what I have actually been witnessing here. Across these three days we have heard from medicine, research, government, Indigenous communities, workplaces, families, recovery organisations and people with lived experience. And I think I finally understand what has impressed me most. It is the ambition. Not the ambition to create another programme, publish another strategy or manage addiction slightly better. The ambition to build a system around the belief that people can recover. That sounds obvious. It isn't. Systems reveal what they really believe about people through what they are designed to achieve. If our highest ambition is survival, we build around survival. If it is risk management, we build around managing risk. But if we genuinely believe people can recover, the architecture has to look different. Treatment and good medicine matter enormously. But so do family, housing, employment, community, relationships, responsibility, belonging and purpose. That is recovery capital. Much of my own work over the years has taken place in the awkward spaces between these worlds: government and community, treatment and recovery, policy and practice, professional systems and peer-led civil society. Perhaps that is why I have found the conversations here so interesting. I've spent years thinking about what makes a system genuinely recovery-oriented rather than simply capable of describing itself that way. There is a difference. You can put recovery into a strategy, an organisational chart and a set of performance indicators. The harder task is creating the culture, incentives and relationships in which recovery actually happens. And eventually every system, however well intentioned, faces the same danger. It can become very good at measuring its own activity rather than asking whether people's lives are changing. That is why independence, evidence and the voice of people who understand recovery from the inside matter so much. Sometimes the useful question is still the simplest one That's a lovely performance indicator. Now show me whether people are recovering. Coming to Alberta from outside this system has given me an interesting vantage point. I recognise much of what is being attempted here from decades working across recovery, treatment, advocacy and policy in Britain, but I am also looking at it with fresh eyes. I have found myself thinking not only about what Alberta is building, but about what makes recovery-oriented reform durable. How do you protect the original purpose as organisations grow? How do you translate principles into culture? How do you measure what actually matters? And how do you build something capable of surviving political cycles because its value can be demonstrated in people's lives? Those questions travel rather well across borders. There have been things this week I agree with, things I want to understand better and things I will probably continue arguing about. That is exactly how it should be. But I leave enormously encouraged by the willingness here to ask bigger questions. What would our systems look like if we designed them around what people might become, rather than merely around the problems they currently present? I came to Calgary hoping I might contribute something to that conversation. I'm leaving having learned a great deal myself, made some wonderful new connections, and with quite a few ideas about where this conversation might go next. And my belief in recovery, if anything, strengthened. #RecoveryCapital #RCC2026 #ROSC #AddictionRecovery #LivedExperience

Correlation is not causation, of course. However... @andyburnham a dozen of your colleagues appear to be itching to use the next few months to try to widen that gap.

In Holyrood, yesterday evening, a ScotPAG event: Ramifications of the draft Conversion Practices Bill attracted a wide range of attendees. Thank you 🙏 @murdo_fraser for hosting. @MeghanSCUP @WRNScotland @ForWomenScot @DalgetySusan

Man say that "no means no, I don't consent" is not a valid argument for women to use against encroaching men. RED FLAG!

Black women are women. Women do not make up 98% of sex offenders. Men make up 98% of sex offenders. Proportionally speaking, there are more trans-IDed men in UK jails for sex offences than in the male prison population as a whole. Stop comparing black women to men.

.@lnmackenzie1 said she felt “pretty shocked” that a professional healthcare body had included "eunuch identity" in its guidance to nurses “on how to offer clinical care”. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09…