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In response to my colleague Finlay Carson, Rhoda Grant said that farmers should get their affairs in order. That is totally offensive. It speaks volumes about the lack of understanding of the intricacies of the challenges that family farms face.
In other words, far from appreciating that the LGBT community has an important role to play in society and that LGBT people are important members of society, they are saying that it would be better if LGBT people did not exist. That is the heinous and offensive message of conversion practices.
That is part of the cultural and behavioural shift that needs to happen. I think that it is helpful to highlight what normal looks like in many other countries.
Some might say that there is an argument for looking at whether the behaviour of an individual is vexatious, and therefore the individual is vexatious.
Children’s hearings proceedings usually focus on the behaviour of the child or the parent and those are set out in the statement of grounds, which is specific and detailed.
We need more information on stock assessments, catch sizes and wrasse behaviour so that we can identify catch limits and manage the wrasse population as a fishery.
Written standards on their own, unless they are imbued with differences of approach and the differences in behaviour and decisions that are made every day, really do not have the value that we would be looking for.
We talked earlier about menopause, and there have been amazing support groups around that—even St Mirren Football Club has created a menopause chat group.