The
Scottish Green Party has suspended Beth Douglas from the role of Rainbow Greens co-convener, after a series of "violent" tweets.
Douglas has been accused of using derogatory language on social media, supporting controversial protests against women, inflaming debate by calling feminists 'fascists' and posing with weapons for Twitter pictures that threaten "cis" people.
A well-known face in the Scottish
trans activist movement, Douglas is a trans woman and has spoken at many demonstrations advocating for the Gender Recognition Reform Bill and the
ideology.
Douglas, who still has the job title in her Twitter bio, has been in the "public facing" representative role for LGBT+ members of the Scottish Greens and attended
Holyrood equality committee evidence sessions.
The use of the offensive word Terf -Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist- used to describe women who criticise gender ideology, features heavily on Douglas's social media, along with unfounded allegations that they are "fascists".
There are also images of Douglas holding an axe and a knife circulating social media. Holding up a knife in a threatening way, one of the captions for the images says "I heard yall hate trans women, knives and axes".
In another image, Douglas is seen with two others flexing arm muscles and looking threatening. The caption said: "...you're cis on #transdayofvisibilty and we're going to beat you up for it".
Cis or cisgender is the ideological word used to describe someone whose gender identity matched their sex. It's overwhelmingly rejected and seen as offensive by those who see women as rooted in their biological sex.
Douglas has acknowledged these images without apology, however, has made no reference to further images of tweets that refer to "throat punching fascists", using a shiv (sharp weapon) on anyone deemed to have misgendered and appeared to like a comment calling for a "b*****s hyoid to be broken" if they use the wrong pronoun.
Social media posts from 2019 suggests a statement was made from Douglas's Twitter handle @pickle_bee that said: "Throat punching fascists and inciting violence are two different things, inciting violence is a terf game as old as time and we see right through your facade".
Douglas described the recent
women's rights rally in Glasgow that was counter-protested by a group called
"Furries against Fascism", as having "mein kampf"- Adolf Hitler's infamous book- and said "anti-fascist prayers" were needed.
This comes amid increasing tensions between trans activists and women's rights campaigners that peaked when a pro-GRR demonstration hosted a sign calling for
"Terfs" to be "decapitated".
Scottish Conservative MSP Pam Gosal told the Scottish Express: “Beth Douglas has often posted many threats- including violent ones- to those who are opposed to her views in relation to gender reform.
“The Scottish Greens should have disassociated themselves from this individual and her remarks, but have allowed Beth Douglas to continue in a prominent role within their party. Anyone advocating violence should not be given the green light to continue in such a public-facing role in any political party.”
The Scottish Greens told the Scottish Express: “This individual is suspended from the party. We have nothing further to add.”
