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The women’s rights activist who appeared in the Scottish Parliament to protest the SNP’s gender recognition reform bill has revealed herself to be pelvic physiotherapist and comedian Elaine Miller.
Yesterday, MSPs voted to pass the controversial Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill by a vote of 86 to 39.
After the bill was passed, a women’s rights activist, named Mrs Miller, stood up in the Scottish parliament and chanted: ‘If this parliament doesn’t respect women’s rights, then you don’t have decency.
“And if you’re not going to be decent to the women who are being raped right now in the prisons you’re in charge of, if you’re not going to be decent, then I’m going to be indecent.”
The women’s rights activist who appeared in the Scottish Parliament to protest the SNP’s gender recognition reform bill revealed herself as Elaine Miller, an Edinburgh-based pelvic physiotherapist and comedian.
After the bill was passed, Miller yelled from the public rostrum: “If this parliament doesn’t respect women’s rights, then you have no decency.”
Elaine Miller is an Edinburgh-based comedian and pelvic physiotherapist, who combines her hobby of standing up with work to run the comedy show under the stage name ‘Gusset Grippers’.
She then lifted her skirt to reveal a wig, adding: “If you think this is the first time there will be a minge, you are wrong.”
Ms. Miller is an Edinburgh-based comedian and pelvic physiotherapist, who combines her hobby of standing up with work to run the comedy show under the stage name ‘Reinforcement clamps’.
“The objective of the show is for the public to leave knowing what a pelvic floor is, what it is for and where to take it if they think it is a bit broken.
“It’s evidence-based and therefore counts as CPD, possibly the funniest thing,” their website says.
Focusing on the female anatomy, the show, which promises to be ‘frank, factual and funny’ and features a 5’4” singing vulva, played at the Edinburgh Fringe and earned five-star reviews.
Ms. Miller made her World Fringe debut in Perth, where she won the prestigious Comedy Award, before sold-out shows in Melbourne and the Adelaide Fringe.
But in August of this year, The times reported that a male worker at the Fringe venue where the show was taking place challenged the female attendees because he believed he was ‘transphobic’.
The staff member is said to have tried to dissuade the audience from attending the performance, saying it displayed “blatant misogyny”.
During this year’s Fringe, Ms Miller reported being harassed on the street three times, telling the publication: “My show is not transphobic and neither am I.”
Ms. Miller promotes pelvic health with comedy using the hashtag #LaughDontLeak and has spoken on the subject around the world, including Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland and across the UK.
He has collaborated with Monash University in Melbourne, Australia to explore the use of humor as a health promotion tool.
Ms Miller said her goal is to “break the taboo surrounding incontinence that affects 1:3 women, 1:9 men, and yet 70-80 percent of them can be cured with pelvic floor exercises.” and physiotherapy”.
She also speaks on podcasts as well as TV breakfast shows on the radio, where she joked that during a slot on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour she “learned that ‘saying ‘bumhole’ to Dame Jenni Murray is almost a betrayal.”
His reach from social media, radio, podcasts and television means that more than 590 million people have heard his #LaughDontLeak message, according to his website.
This, he says, is just one reason he was awarded a scholarship by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.
Miller said she decided to specialize in pelvic health after “having three babies with giant heads in four years.”
Elaine Miller is ‘passionate about pelvic floors’ and has written a comedy show about her work.
“I quickly became fascinated with the science of continence and the wonders of the pelvic floor after my babies were born,” she says on her website.
speaking to the viewer Earlier this year, the mother-of-three said she had been subjected to abuse, including being “spit on the street” and having posters for her comedy show defaced.
She told the publication: ‘I am a mother and have dealt with young children and teenagers and this is very familiar. It’s bigoted, misbehavior.’
The healthcare professional has also reported being avoided by fellow comedians and staff, some of whom she has worked closely with for years.
She told the Scottish Daily Express: ‘It’s the strangest thing for adults… adults. I walk into a room and their backs are turned to me.
‘This is not appropriate adult behaviour.’
In the image, the protesters in front of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh.
Yesterday’s stunt was not the first time Ms Miller has interrupted politicians over the gender recognition bill.
Last month, Miller earned praise from Harry Potter author JK Rowling for confronting one of Nicola Sturgeon’s ministers over the SNP’s gender reforms.
Ms Rowling said Miller “spoke for women across Scotland” when she stood in the public gallery at a Holyrood committee hearing on Tuesday to accuse Shona Robison of failing to address women’s concerns. women.
Ms Miller said she had witnessed a ‘rude’ Ms Robison ‘draw squares around her notes’ instead of engaging with women’s valid concerns about the impact of gender reform.
She left the audience after her verbal attack on the minister.