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"Nicola Sturgeon’s Scotland: A place where an equalities officer feels free to declare in public how much he wants to beat up non-compliant women."

— Nicola Sturgeon

January 1, 1970

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Cameron Downing, the former SNP equalities officer, had been sentenced in Edinburgh to six-years imprisonment for sex offences. In 2022, Downing tweeted he wanted to beat "the f*** out of some terfs and transphobes" as well as "I f***ing hate terfs and transphobes with such a passion." See Gender-critical feminism, for an article on the pejorative TERF acronym.

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Cameron Downing, the former SNP equalities officer, had been sentenced in Edinburgh to six-years imprisonment for sex offences. In 2022, Downing tweeted he wanted to beat "the f*** out of some terfs and transphobes" as well as "I f***ing hate terfs and transphobes with such a passion." See Gender-critical feminism, for an article on the pejorative TERF acronym.