Good piece in the Herald www.heraldscotland.com/politics/19554065.sturgeon-booed-holyrood-demo-ignoring-womens-rights/
Excerpts:
They also repeatedly chanted “women won’t wheest”, as they demanded MSPs respect women’s rights, single-sex spaces and single-sex services, rather than allowing men who identify as women to use them too.
Scottish ministers intend to push ahead with gender recognition reforms by the spring despite privately acknowledging the public may not back their specific plans.
An internal memo admitted last year’s consultation on the proposals “cannnot be taken as representative of the wider Scottish public or indicative of levels of public support”.
She said: “Women’s rights are being severly impacted by many pieces of legislation that are being brought forward. We’re losing the term of what a woman means.
“It’s not just self-ID, this government has chosen, for whatever reason, to ignore biology and believes that gender has a higher value than sex, and we’re saying that’s not correct. Sex must count.”
One of the counter-protestors supporting trans rights, Jordan Andrew, 29, from Edinburgh, described the main demo as “Scotland’s biggest collection of bigots”.
They said: “They’ve turned up to protest something they have no idea about. They don’t even know the correct name of the legislation, so who can anyone taken them seriously?
“They’re backed by right-wing evangelicals.
“They’re not interested in women’s right, they’re only interested in transphobia.”