What on earth does Nicola Sturgeon mean by saying 'shame on you' to Murdo Fraser in that clip?! 🤯
He correctly highlighted how divisive the proposals around GRA reform have been. That the strength of feeling and level of concerns are so strong that hundreds of women made an effort to turn up outside parliament during a Thursday afternoon. Most protests are nowhere near that size. The fact that so many women were there means there's a lot more who weren't able to make it.
I wonder if Sturgeon is slowly losing her mind. Like many other politicians, she thought GRA reform was a piece of cake - an easy and cheap win that would get her into the history books and give her yet another chance to show the middle finger at Westminster. Another feather in the 'Scotland is the bestest and mostest progressive place in all the lands and I made it happen' cap.
She must realise deep down now what a giant fuck up this all is. She has painted herself into a corner by blindly bowing down to the gender zealots.
Violent sexual offenders in women's prisons, medical scandal on children, the obvious stupidity of saying women's rights and single-sex spaces will be protected while enabling any male to change the sex marker on their birth certificate thereby placing them in the legal category of female which has ramifications on policies and provisions.
She's going to be in the history books alright, but not for the reasons she assumed.
The Tories in Westminster deftly dodged a bullet despite being the ones that kicked off all this shite in the first place.
By retaining the medical diagnosis but promising to make the process super easy, free and online, the Tories have made a sly and calculated move on the gender zealots. They can no longer bleat about how aaaaaawful the whole process is. If they want to wail about how all this still isn't good enough, they will have to admit that their real aim is to get rid of the entire medical gatekeeping process (even though in reality the vast majority of GRC applications are accepted and the panel are very accommodating and helpful to applicants). Polls show that most of the public agree there should be some sort of diagnosis underpinning the privilege of being able to change your birth certificate. (Even though falsifying factual information is not a human right, but the gender zealots have been successful in pushing this narrative because when the GRA was established, same-sex marriage wasn't around and the state pension ages between women and men were different.)
Sturgeon was a fool and fell hook, line and sinker for a shiny turd. Under the heat, the coating has come off and the turd is starting to smell....real bad. She didn't leave a way out for herself the way the Tories at Westminster did. And she must know this. I wonder if we will see increasingly bizarre and irrational behaviour from her as this issue takes centre stage. The attention of the general public was previously focused on Brexit and the pandemic. Maybe she will jump into an indy referendum soon, not because she wants one or believes in one, but she might think it will distract the media and the public again and it's easier to push through legislation that most people don't agree with when their attention is elsewhere. As per the Denton's handbook this is a tried and tested method of gender zealots.