It is not often that we see Nicola Sturgeon squirm visibly in TV interviews – she is normally a master of the medium. But when ITV News correspondent Peter Smith asked her repeatedly this week whether ‘transwomen are women’, she was obviously struggling. Yes they are, she insisted. Except when they aren’t. But they still are…
The revelation that trans sex offenders have been housed in Scottish women’s prisons has blown apart Nicola Sturgeon’s landmark Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, which would allow any man to become a woman by self-declaration and without any medical intervention. Trans on demand has been blocked by the UK government on the grounds that it might have an adverse effect on the safety of women. And it rather seems as if it might.
Astonishingly, the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) had been routinely allowing trans offenders to self-declare their gender for years, in anticipation of the legislation.
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