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Sturgeon backtracks

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JamesMacGill · 10/08/2025 18:58

https://www.itv.com/watch/news/i-should-have-paused-trans-legislation-in-scotland-sturgeon-admits-in-itv-news-interview/bj5x2fh

She’s just realised women aren’t hysterical fibbers.

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SidewaysOtter · 10/08/2025 23:40

Whatever. We’re still not buying your fucking book.

Alucard55 · 10/08/2025 22:46

She's an absolute disgrace for what she did to women.

Countdown2023 · 10/08/2025 22:38

She doesn’t get to play the victim card. No amount of apologising will save the SNP on this front. She threw women under the bus and was absolutely vile in the way she did it.

LimpysGotCancer · 10/08/2025 21:12

Theswiveleyeballsinthesky · 10/08/2025 19:21

I fervently believe that the rights of women and the interests of trans people are not irreconcilable at all.

she only wishes she paused so she could rethink strategy not because she believed the bill itself and its aims was flawed

Exactly this.
And how could its aims possibly not be flawed?
If you've got women who want toilets, changing rooms etc that are for women only, and you've got men who want access to those spaces, in what universe could those interests NOT be irreconcilable?!

I know we've been at this for years now but it still occasionally all hits me afresh that there are educated people in the highest offices in the land who don't see this, and I become absolutely dumbfounded by it all over again.

RedToothBrush · 10/08/2025 21:06

She's got a book to flog so she has to try and appear that she's still relevant enough for anyone to buy her book.

She'll be in The Works bargain bin in by Christmas.

All those feckless husbands who want a cheap present for their over opinionated wives will be delighted.

Plasticwaste · 10/08/2025 21:03

Is she going to get into a broom cupboard to tell herself off?

zanahoria · 10/08/2025 20:59

"At the point I knew it was becoming, or felt, it was becoming as polarised,"

I hate the way she, like many other politicians, portray themselves as an honest broker above all the bickering. She lead the campaign to promote a toxic ideology that was unpopular with voters

Helleofabore · 10/08/2025 19:30

JamesMacGill · 10/08/2025 19:20

Does this make her ‘far right’ now?

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Goodness knows.

We have been recently told
about how libellous it is to post ‘guilt by association’ . So I cannot comment 😁

Helleofabore · 10/08/2025 19:28

Just posting this link here for the dramatic unfurling from @RealFeminist

www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5389404-see-if-embdy-hud-fuckin-telt-me?reply=146320469

siliconcover · 10/08/2025 19:27

TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 10/08/2025 19:19

Thanks for the link, I'm not watching it because I canna stand the women, but did she play the victim card?

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Oh, she will DEFINITELY play her victim card!

Theswiveleyeballsinthesky · 10/08/2025 19:21

I fervently believe that the rights of women and the interests of trans people are not irreconcilable at all.

she only wishes she paused so she could rethink strategy not because she believed the bill itself and its aims was flawed

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JamesMacGill · 10/08/2025 19:20

Helleofabore · 10/08/2025 19:15

Expedient with a book dropping.

Does this make her ‘far right’ now?

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TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 10/08/2025 19:19

JamesMacGill · 10/08/2025 18:58

https://www.itv.com/watch/news/i-should-have-paused-trans-legislation-in-scotland-sturgeon-admits-in-itv-news-interview/bj5x2fh

She’s just realised women aren’t hysterical fibbers.

Thanks for the link, I'm not watching it because I canna stand the women, but did she play the victim card?

IwantToRetire · 10/08/2025 19:18

In a new interview with the broadcaster, Ms Sturgeon said: "I didn't, I think, anticipate as much as I should or engage as much as I should on some of the concerns that might then be triggered.

"At the point I knew it was becoming, or felt, it was becoming as polarised, I should have - I say in the book I wonder if I should have - I am going to say it categorically: I should have said 'right, ok, let's pause, let's take a step back because I fervently believe that the rights of women and the interests of trans people are not irreconcilable at all.

"I should have taken a step back and said 'how do we achieve this?'.

ITV News at Ten presenter Julie Etchingham asks the former first minister: "So you're basically admitting that you should have just paused that legislation?"

Ms Sturgeon, clarifies, "paused, yes".

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25378952.nicola-sturgeon-i-paused-gender-reforms/

Nicola Sturgeon: 'I should have paused controversial gender reforms'

Nicola Sturgeon told ITV News she should have paused gender reforms in light of significant concerns about women's rights.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25378952.nicola-sturgeon-i-paused-gender-reforms/

Helleofabore · 10/08/2025 19:15

Expedient with a book dropping.

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