This week, the UK government made the ground-breaking decision to block Nicola Sturgeon’s Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, which had been passed in the Scottish parliament last year.
One of the most dangerous and controversial aspects of the Scottish legislation was that it would enable children as young as 16 to obtain a gender-recognition certificate and thus legally change sex. So it was more than a little alarming to hear the UK education secretary, whose government had just blocked the bill, endorsing precisely this aspect of it.
Speaking to Kay Burley on Sky News on Tuesday, Keegan was asked whether she thought 16 was too young to be able to legally change sex. Her response was: ‘No I don’t, actually. I was working at 16. I was paying taxes at 16. I could make decisions for myself at 16.’
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