Well, well, well. Nicola Sturgeon has finally broken her silence over the Supreme Court judgment that backed the biological definition of a woman. Speaking to journalists in Holyrood today, Sturgeon insisted that while she accepts the ruling from the highest court in the land, she remains concerned about the impact on the lives of transgender people. And when she was asked whether she would now apologise to women’s rights campaigners – who she has previously criticised while pushing through her gender reforms – Scotland’s former first minister declined. How curious…
Former SNP MP Joanna Cherry previously called for an apology from the party’s former Dear Leader in the Spectator, writing that: ‘No less a person than Scotland’s former first minister Nicola Sturgeon called women right’s campaigners like us bigots, transphobes, racists and homophobes. An apology to the women of Scotland is in order.’ Yet no apology came. Today, the ex-FM was pressed by a reporter: ‘For Women Scotland and Joanna Cherry feel that their views were ignored during the passage of the GRR bill and say that you owe them an apology following the Supreme Court ruling.
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