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How can Maggie Chapman be so wrong about everything?

How can Maggie Chapman be so wrong about everything?

Update: 2025-09-15
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Is Maggie Chapman a fool, ambitious, or both? Well, if she is idiotic enough to think that carrying on the way she has this past few years, shaming even the shameful Scottish Greens, will result in her rising in the ranks, she’s even more stupid than she appears.

The politician who, if she had any fewer brain cells, would have to be watered twice daily, has argued that eight-year-old children should be allowed to decide on their own “gender identity”, and be eligible to undergo a legal ‘sex change’; is enthralled with the most extreme trans ideology imaginable, and has shilled for hulking, male rapists (there are no other sort, because the crime of rape requires a penis) to be locked up in prison with vulnerable, terrified women.

Chapman appears to have joined the Andrew Tate school of feminism, and is a fully fledged men’s rights activist.

After all, you have to be a pretty sick puppy to celebrate ‘sex work’ as a job like any other, which Chapman does.

Currently, Ash Regan , a Scottish politician, is making a valiant attempt to overhaul Scotland’s prostitution laws. Regan, along with any feminist concerned with the abuse of women and girls, believes that selling sex should not be criminalised, because prostitutted people are victims of sexual exploitation, but that buying sex should be a criminal offence. The punters, almost ALWAYS men, create the demand, are doing the exploiting, and need to be deterred.

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Ash Regan

This approach, known as the Nordic Model, was first introduced in Sweden in 1999, as part of its end violence against women strategy. It has since been debated and implemented in countries around the world. It works, because it takes the stigma and responsibility off the women, and places it firmly on the men.

It is a human rights approach, and the only way that men will be persuaded that paying for sex carries a risk for them.

Of course Chapman is against it because “sex work is work”, and you will know, that if somebody trots out the mantra “trans women are women”, they will also believe that men have the right to purchase access to the inside of an actual living, breathing human being, for one-sided sexual pleasure.

‘Sex workers are experts on their own safety,’ posted Chapman on X. ‘Ash Regan's Prostitution Bill claims to protect them, while completely ignoring their voices.’ Regan has done nothing of the sort. I know for a fact that she has widely consulted women who know of what they speak, when it comes to why we should challenge the ‘right’ of men to pay for sex. One of those Regan spoke to is the amazing feminist activist and sex trade survivor, Fiona Broadfoot, who has done more for women and girls in her time Chapman could even dream of.

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Nobly going along with the woke shock troops, Chapman supports the type of faux-feminism that that benefits men, or at the very least poses no challenge to them. She argues, therefore, that prostitution is merely a form of labour, and that the only harm that comes to the women is if they are arrested by the police.

I have interviewed dozens of women who have managed to escape prostitution. They speak of the pain of a dry, bruised vagina being penetrated by multiple men. The horror of having his semen or other bodily fluids anywhere near her face. His beard rubbing her cheek until she bleeds. They tell me about how their necks get sore from whipping their head away from his tongue as he tries to kiss her. About being unable to eat or drink or kiss her children, because of what she has had to do with her mouth. This is not the sanitised version of “sex work” we hear about so often.

Arrogant as hell, thick as a brick, and a misogynistic piece of work, Chapman is a disgrace to politics. Obviously, the Scottish Parliament is not fit for purpose, and full of cranks, but Maggie Chapman actually manages to discredit it.

She declared at a protest in Edinburgh, shortly after the Supreme Court ruling on “what is a woman?” that the Supreme Court judges were motivated by ‘bigotry, prejudice, and hatred”.

Prior to that, we know that she was a massive <a href="https://www.holyrood.com/news/view,exedinb

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How can Maggie Chapman be so wrong about everything?

How can Maggie Chapman be so wrong about everything?

Julie Bindel