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https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-arent-scotlands-politicians-standing-up-for-sandie-peggie/
To give you a flavour of proceedings so far, on Monday, Upton – a doctor, remember – said biological sex was a ‘nebulous’ term. This is a case that was always going to attract attention and divide opinion. On one side there are those who agree Peggie should not have been expected to undress in front of someone male. On the other are those who think Upton was being bullied when Peggie said the presence of a man in a changing room made her uneasy. The facts of this tribunal – including NHS Fife’s decision to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds of public cash defending itself – are extraordinary. More extraordinary, still, is the refusal of some of Scotland’s most senior politicians to acknowledge that anything unusual might be going on.
Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon is a full-blown ‘trans women are women’ activist whose dogmatic adherence to gender ideology shaped the government and party she led. There was no place in cabinet or in the upper echelons of the SNP for anyone who didn’t share her faith. Many of Sturgeon’s colleagues toed the line for reasons of ambition rather than belief. But Sturgeon is long gone, brought down two years ago, in part by the public backlash to her cherished reform of the Gender Recognition Act to allow trans people to self-ID. (The new law was later blocked by then Conservative Scottish Secretary Alister Jack on the grounds that it was unworkable.)
Sturgeon’s successor, Humza Yousaf, preferred not to talk about trans issues. What had, under Sturgeon, been a central part of the SNP’s mission, was ignored. But neglect didn’t make it go away.
The same rules apply to the current First Minister, John Swinney. He might wish that the whole damned mess caused by Sturgeon’s monomania would vanish but it will not. Voters do not think it right for male criminals to be sent to women’s prisons. Nor do they reckon it fair for men to be allowed to punch women in boxing matches or race them in marathons. And they most certainly don’t think men should be in women’s changing rooms. Labour’s Anas Sarwar is as hopeless as Swinney when it comes to this matter. In common, it seems with all of their fellow travellers, these two men of the ‘centre left’ have abandoned women, leaving opposition to gender ideology to parties of the right.
https://archive.ph/Q0lSs
To give you a flavour of proceedings so far, on Monday, Upton – a doctor, remember – said biological sex was a ‘nebulous’ term. This is a case that was always going to attract attention and divide opinion. On one side there are those who agree Peggie should not have been expected to undress in front of someone male. On the other are those who think Upton was being bullied when Peggie said the presence of a man in a changing room made her uneasy. The facts of this tribunal – including NHS Fife’s decision to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds of public cash defending itself – are extraordinary. More extraordinary, still, is the refusal of some of Scotland’s most senior politicians to acknowledge that anything unusual might be going on.
Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon is a full-blown ‘trans women are women’ activist whose dogmatic adherence to gender ideology shaped the government and party she led. There was no place in cabinet or in the upper echelons of the SNP for anyone who didn’t share her faith. Many of Sturgeon’s colleagues toed the line for reasons of ambition rather than belief. But Sturgeon is long gone, brought down two years ago, in part by the public backlash to her cherished reform of the Gender Recognition Act to allow trans people to self-ID. (The new law was later blocked by then Conservative Scottish Secretary Alister Jack on the grounds that it was unworkable.)
Sturgeon’s successor, Humza Yousaf, preferred not to talk about trans issues. What had, under Sturgeon, been a central part of the SNP’s mission, was ignored. But neglect didn’t make it go away.
The same rules apply to the current First Minister, John Swinney. He might wish that the whole damned mess caused by Sturgeon’s monomania would vanish but it will not. Voters do not think it right for male criminals to be sent to women’s prisons. Nor do they reckon it fair for men to be allowed to punch women in boxing matches or race them in marathons. And they most certainly don’t think men should be in women’s changing rooms. Labour’s Anas Sarwar is as hopeless as Swinney when it comes to this matter. In common, it seems with all of their fellow travellers, these two men of the ‘centre left’ have abandoned women, leaving opposition to gender ideology to parties of the right.
https://archive.ph/Q0lSs