The Supreme Court has unanimously backed the biological definition of a woman. Women’s rights campaigners across the country are celebrating at the news while author and Sex Matters campaigner Helen Joyce told Spectator TV that she feels ‘vindicated and amazed’ by the decision. But politicians in the Scottish National party won’t be feeling quite as jubilant. As lawyer and lecturer Michael Foran told me on today’s episode, what will now happen with the gender bill is down to the Scottish government. With just a year to go until the Scottish parliament elections, letting the trans debate rear its head again could spell trouble for the SNP.
The party has in recent years become embroiled in the trans debate. It was under Nicola Sturgeon that the issue first ramped up when she pushed her gender reforms through Holyrood. Humza Yousaf then took the UK government to court after former Scottish Secretary Alister Jack blocked the bill with his unprecedented use of a Section 35 order.
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