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- cherub0
So I'm listening to a live debate by parliament on the gender recognition act.
This question is for you scots.
I once asked where the toughest men in the uk were, geographically, and was told by someone on this very forum... "the toughest men in the uk are from the extreme north (Scotland)" ...further down south you go toward Brighton the more LGBT culture you see. So I took that to mean perhaps Scotland is more traditional with respect to gender.
Two scottish MP's that stood up to speak in this debate. One lesbian, one gay. If we broke this down into percentages, that's an LGBTQ representation of 100% by Scotland.
If parliamentary representation is based on the populace, are 100% of Scottish people gay and lesbian? If no, why are 100% of your politicians in this debate from the LGBT community?
Scottish Muslim population is no larger than 2% and Scottish Jewish population is currently less than .5%
What would be the outcry, if suddenly your parliament became ENTIRELY (100%) Muslim? Or Jewish?
Wouldn't it go something like... "wtf, how did this happen?" "Muslims taking over Scotland ffs!!!"
Explain yourself, Scotland. Is LGBT the minority or the majority? If it is the minority, why do you elect LGBT politicians as if it is the majority?
click the link to watch, can't embed live video directly
- These are the questions we really to be asking ourselves.palimpsest
- there are 59 Scottish constituencies in parliament. 2 gay MPs. 2% of Scotland identifies as LGBT. Most gay men are obsessed with masculinity,kingsteven
- most gay women are tough as fuck.kingsteven
- You should smoke either more or less crack.Nairn
- Perhaps the voters aren’t idiots who assume an LGBT candidate could only know how to represent LGBT citizens and no one else.nb
- Unfortunately the LGBT politicians in this video didn't do what you just claimed they could do.cherub
- You can't even get them to say "Heterosexual rights" much less defend it.cherub
- you really don't understand how parliament works. this is an e-petition debate (when a publicly submitted petition gets 100k votes there is a debate)kingsteven
- it's compulsory then. that explains why it wasn't held in the normal place.cherub
- The Scottish parliament supported reform in 2017 as did a public consultation in 2020 conducted by the UK parliament and the EU (the current act was judgedkingsteven
- behind human rights standards) so the petition is to stop the gov't dragging their feet and pass the reform that already has supportkingsteven
- because only 7 of the 59 Scottish MPs in the UK parliament are Conservatives it would be a good chance to stick it to them even if they weren't gaykingsteven
- so representational in that the vast majority of scots dislike the gov't - even if you weren't entirely wrong about everything elsekingsteven