New self-ID gender laws in Scotland

[Neath_Jack]

The U.K. government blocks it. Leaving aside anyones’s perfectly valid views on the merits (or otherwise) of the new law that’s a pretty outrageous move with potentially huge implications for devolution, Scotland and the future of the U.K. as a whole.

Do you reckon Sturgeon anticipated this to happen?

 

[exiledclaseboy]

Do you reckon Sturgeon anticipated this to happen?

Oh aye. She won’t be disappointed by the move. The U.K. government has played right into the SNP’s hands. But it suits them both. The Scottish government gets to (quite rightly) cry foul about a constitutional outrage while the U.K. government can claim to be on the side of women’s rights (as if anyone would believe that). It’ll end up in the Supreme Court and if the Scottish government loses that case it’ll be twice in a matter of months that a U.K. institution would have denied Scotland its democratic right. Manna from heaven for the Scottish nationalists.

 

[Neath_Jack]

Oh aye. She won’t be disappointed by the move. The U.K. government has played right into the SNP’s hands. But it suits them both. The Scottish government gets to (quite rightly) cry foul about a constitutional outrage while the U.K. government can claim to be on the side of women’s rights (as if anyone would believe that). It’ll end up in the Supreme Court and if the Scottish government loses that case it’ll be twice in a matter of months that a U.K. institution would have denied Scotland its democratic right. Manna from heaven for the Scottish nationalists.

Yeah, completely agree with that.