The Scottish Greens have ditched a general election candidate who called JK Rowling a “torn-faced cow” on social media.
Sophie Molly, who was the party’s Westminster hopeful in Gordon and Buchan, had been accused of “bringing the party into disrepute” through her posts on X.
Local members had written to the ruling executive urging them to deselect the musician. On Wednesday senior members agreed to block her candidacy.
READ MORE: Scottish Green members ask party to deselect candidate
On Thursday, Ms Molly told her X followers she was quitting the party and joining the SNP.
She said: “I’m leaving the @ScottishGeeens and joining the @theSNP. They will afford me the respect and dignity that a proud trans woman like me deserves. I will no longer be voting Scottish Greens.”
Earlier this month, the candidate – who is a trans woman – criticised a book called The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht, which includes essays from a number of gender-critical women, including the Harry Potter author.
Ms Molly said the book was “deeply transphobic”, adding: “It puts the safety of all trans people at risk. Promoting hate does nothing but harm society. Trans people are not removing anyone’s rights.
“The Gender Critical have removed trans people’s right to feel safe in public spaces.”
Ms Rowling responded: “I’m seriously impressed that you’ve been able to read and review an unpublished book of which there are currently only two copies in existence, neither of which have been lent to you.”
The writer then highlighted previous comments by Ms Molly under a different X handle. These included: “JK Rowling is a man larping as a woman. Pass it on!! Let’s shame the torn faced cow.”
Larping is an abbreviation of live action role-playing.
In response to another post by the Green candidate, Ms Rowling wrote: “I’m just interested in the language you use about women you don’t like, Sophie. ‘Torn-faced’, ‘b*tch’ etc.”
A Scottish Greens spokesperson said: “We can confirm that Sophie Molly will not be standing as a candidate for the Scottish Greens.”
READ MORE: SNP hit out as ITV snub party from first televised debate
Earlier in the day the party’s co-leader Patrick Harvie said a Scottish Green MP at Westminster would be “a clear voice for change.”
He said his party would highlight “environmental destruction” and global injustices like in Gaza.
“That’s the kind of voice that I think Scotland’s political landscape needs at Westminster,” he said.
“It’s not coming from any of the other political parties as we see Tories doubling down on their support for the fossil fuel industry, Labour ripping up their green investment pledge, and the SNP now back to trying to face both ways on climate and the oil and gas industry.”
Asked if he expects to see SNP voters turn to the Greens following the break-up of the Bute House Agreement, Mr Harvie said: “My worry at the moment is that we will now see the SNP watering down on pledges like the climate agenda on the Heat and Buildings Bill – they’ve already started to unravel parts of it.”
He said any watering down of policies would be a “signal and reminder to every SNP voter” that only the Scottish Greens will advocate for climate and social change.
Speaking outside the UK Government headquarters in Edinburgh, he also said that while Labour offers a change of government, Sir Keir Starmer will not deliver political change.
Mr Harvie accused Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of “overruling Scotland”, and said: “I think we’re going to see the same kind of approach from a Labour government abusing the power of the UK, undermining devolution.
“I think it’s a really serious worry that we’re going to see a change of name plate, a change of party rosette, a change of government – but not a change of politics.”
The headline isn’t great, as usual with the papers. The candidate did more than call the torn faced cow a torn faced cow
She sounds positively intellectual, by Scottish Green standards.
Ahh, this must be related to the trans identifying candidate who said the Greens had betrayed trans people.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Interesting post on wings about this nutcase. Wouldn’t trust them to run a bath never mind sit in parliament.
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Yes yes please reply and tell me how you’re too good for wings/don’t read anything by people you disagree with etc.
Its has detail that news sites cant/wont report thats relevant in this instance. You dont need to need read it.
To summarise
– actively encourages the public to abuse the police scotland hate crime reporting form, potentially leading to delays in legitimate incidents being processed
– threatened public figures with police action.
– publicly sharing anti scientific view points ignoring the recommendations of the cass report
And they were on “suicide watch” as recently as two months ago which brings into question whether they’re fit to serve as a member of parliament if they’re subject to an ongoing mental health crisis.
I’m just amazed this person managed to become a candidate.
She is.
> She said: “I’m leaving the @ScottishGeeens and joining the @theSNP. They will afford me the respect and dignity that a proud trans woman like me deserves. I will no longer be voting Scottish Greens.”
In what world is a trans person going to get more respect in the fucking SNP than the Greens?
Well that was awfully predictable. They’ve been losing their minds at an alarming rate over the past few weeks.
JK Rowling is indeed a torn-faced cow, and a deeply dangerous individual.
Im sad to say that I still think the SGP were right to deselect Molly – I really don’t think she was coping with suddenly being in the public eye, she got a massive amount of abuse including being doxxed and having revenge porn posted of her, she was trying to rile prominent transphobes into public debates which I think would have ultimately done more harm than good as I don’t think Molly conducts herself particularly well and I think she’d be too stressed to effectively counter their points.
I wouldn’t say Rowling is a torn faced cow, more akin to a festering length of rotten gowl rope
The phrase fuck around and find out springs to mind.
It’s rare that a headline understates how ridiculous someone has been, as opposed to the other way around.
Are we not allowed to voice our dislike of JK now?
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The Scottish Greens have ditched a general election candidate who called JK Rowling a “torn-faced cow” on social media.
Sophie Molly, who was the party’s Westminster hopeful in Gordon and Buchan, had been accused of “bringing the party into disrepute” through her posts on X.
Local members had written to the ruling executive urging them to deselect the musician. On Wednesday senior members agreed to block her candidacy.
READ MORE: Scottish Green members ask party to deselect candidate
On Thursday, Ms Molly told her X followers she was quitting the party and joining the SNP.
She said: “I’m leaving the @ScottishGeeens and joining the @theSNP. They will afford me the respect and dignity that a proud trans woman like me deserves. I will no longer be voting Scottish Greens.”
Earlier this month, the candidate – who is a trans woman – criticised a book called The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht, which includes essays from a number of gender-critical women, including the Harry Potter author.
Ms Molly said the book was “deeply transphobic”, adding: “It puts the safety of all trans people at risk. Promoting hate does nothing but harm society. Trans people are not removing anyone’s rights.
“The Gender Critical have removed trans people’s right to feel safe in public spaces.”
Ms Rowling responded: “I’m seriously impressed that you’ve been able to read and review an unpublished book of which there are currently only two copies in existence, neither of which have been lent to you.”
The writer then highlighted previous comments by Ms Molly under a different X handle. These included: “JK Rowling is a man larping as a woman. Pass it on!! Let’s shame the torn faced cow.”
Larping is an abbreviation of live action role-playing.
In response to another post by the Green candidate, Ms Rowling wrote: “I’m just interested in the language you use about women you don’t like, Sophie. ‘Torn-faced’, ‘b*tch’ etc.”
A Scottish Greens spokesperson said: “We can confirm that Sophie Molly will not be standing as a candidate for the Scottish Greens.”
READ MORE: SNP hit out as ITV snub party from first televised debate
Earlier in the day the party’s co-leader Patrick Harvie said a Scottish Green MP at Westminster would be “a clear voice for change.”
He said his party would highlight “environmental destruction” and global injustices like in Gaza.
“That’s the kind of voice that I think Scotland’s political landscape needs at Westminster,” he said.
“It’s not coming from any of the other political parties as we see Tories doubling down on their support for the fossil fuel industry, Labour ripping up their green investment pledge, and the SNP now back to trying to face both ways on climate and the oil and gas industry.”
Asked if he expects to see SNP voters turn to the Greens following the break-up of the Bute House Agreement, Mr Harvie said: “My worry at the moment is that we will now see the SNP watering down on pledges like the climate agenda on the Heat and Buildings Bill – they’ve already started to unravel parts of it.”
He said any watering down of policies would be a “signal and reminder to every SNP voter” that only the Scottish Greens will advocate for climate and social change.
Speaking outside the UK Government headquarters in Edinburgh, he also said that while Labour offers a change of government, Sir Keir Starmer will not deliver political change.
Mr Harvie accused Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of “overruling Scotland”, and said: “I think we’re going to see the same kind of approach from a Labour government abusing the power of the UK, undermining devolution.
“I think it’s a really serious worry that we’re going to see a change of name plate, a change of party rosette, a change of government – but not a change of politics.”
The headline isn’t great, as usual with the papers. The candidate did more than call the torn faced cow a torn faced cow
She sounds positively intellectual, by Scottish Green standards.
Ahh, this must be related to the trans identifying candidate who said the Greens had betrayed trans people.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Interesting post on wings about this nutcase. Wouldn’t trust them to run a bath never mind sit in parliament.
Edit*
Yes yes please reply and tell me how you’re too good for wings/don’t read anything by people you disagree with etc.
Its has detail that news sites cant/wont report thats relevant in this instance. You dont need to need read it.
To summarise
– actively encourages the public to abuse the police scotland hate crime reporting form, potentially leading to delays in legitimate incidents being processed
– threatened public figures with police action.
– publicly sharing anti scientific view points ignoring the recommendations of the cass report
And they were on “suicide watch” as recently as two months ago which brings into question whether they’re fit to serve as a member of parliament if they’re subject to an ongoing mental health crisis.
I’m just amazed this person managed to become a candidate.
She is.
> She said: “I’m leaving the @ScottishGeeens and joining the @theSNP. They will afford me the respect and dignity that a proud trans woman like me deserves. I will no longer be voting Scottish Greens.”
In what world is a trans person going to get more respect in the fucking SNP than the Greens?
Well that was awfully predictable. They’ve been losing their minds at an alarming rate over the past few weeks.
JK Rowling is indeed a torn-faced cow, and a deeply dangerous individual.
Im sad to say that I still think the SGP were right to deselect Molly – I really don’t think she was coping with suddenly being in the public eye, she got a massive amount of abuse including being doxxed and having revenge porn posted of her, she was trying to rile prominent transphobes into public debates which I think would have ultimately done more harm than good as I don’t think Molly conducts herself particularly well and I think she’d be too stressed to effectively counter their points.
I wouldn’t say Rowling is a torn faced cow, more akin to a festering length of rotten gowl rope
The phrase fuck around and find out springs to mind.
It’s rare that a headline understates how ridiculous someone has been, as opposed to the other way around.
Are we not allowed to voice our dislike of JK now?
Misogynist abuse against JK Rowling? How original