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"Nicola Sturgeon fails to understand equality laws and the Scottish Greens are actively hostile to the assertion of women’s sex-based rights, research suggests.
A study of campaign rhetoric found Sturgeon’s claim in an interview that “the tension between women’s rights and trans fights is an artificial one” was “a fundamental misunderstanding of the law in the area” on her part.
The research, by Murray Blackburn Mackenzie (MBM), the policy analyst that writes about gender controversies, went on to highlight the apparent militancy on trans rights issues of the Green Party, the SNP’s potential coalition partner in the new parliament.
Its spokespeople asserted “trans rights are women’s rights” but refused to discuss “what is a woman?” because, as Lorna Slater, the party’s co-leader, told a BBC debate, it is an “anti-trans dog whistle question”.
The “factcheck” of ten key areas of debate by the analyst drew attention to an exchange between Patrick Harvie and Sky’s Adam Boulton, in which the Greens’ co-leader was asked whether a transwoman was a woman “even if they have male genitalia?”
Harvie replied: “Well it’s not just my view, it’s the law.” (continues)
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nicola-sturgeon-fails-to-understand-equality-laws-research-finds-89227p30k
MBM Twitter: twitter.com/mbmpolicy/status/1390209199972491264
'MBM factcheck on claims made about women’s sex-based rights and gender recognition reform during the 2021 Holyrood election campaign'
MAY 6, 2021
murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/2021/05/06/mbm-factcheck-on-claims-made-about-womens-sex-based-rights-and-gender-recognition-reform-during-the-2021-holyrood-election-campaign/