Scottish gender bill represents "all that is wrong"

What’s the point of an independent Scotland? That’s been the question that has haunted the SNP since well before the referendum it lost in 2014. Given Nicola Sturgeon’s party wants to break free from Britain but keep the pound and the monarchy, that it wants to make a blow for ‘independence’ by leaving a democratic UK and re-joining a thoroughly anti-democratic EU, it’s often been hard to make out what SNP-led independence is really all about, other than getting away from the pesky English.

But now we know. Following the passing of the Gender Recognition Reform Bill in the Scottish parliament on Thursday, in the face of bitter opposition from feminist campaigners and even some SNP MSPs, we have our answer. An independent Scotland is about the freedom of male sex offenders to enter women’s prisons, and for confused 16-year-olds to be all but encouraged to see transitioning as the answer to their problems. That this new regime of so-called gender self-identification is being imposed against the wishes of, according to the polls, two-thirds of the Scottish public makes a mockery of the SNP’s high-minded rhetoric about democracy of late.