Shona Robison was on Radio 4 this morning, and amongst her many misrepresentations, this was the key one.
Shona is stating that their reforms to the GRA does not give people any more rights than the 2004 Act, but merely makes the process simpler.
This statement is designed to make listeners believe that same sort of cohort of people in 2023 and beyond, will seek GRA as in 2004.
In 2004 the law was designed for a very small number of people with gender dysphoria so severe that presenting to live as the opposite sex was seen as a treatment management programme for that dysphoria.
Since then, gender ideology has come along and the proponents of that, including Stonewall, have vastly expanded the definition of ‘trans’ so that even they say that those with gender dysphoria are a small subset of the trans umbrella. All of these people are now able to get a GRA. It is no longer open to a small subset with a gender dsyphoria, but a vastly expanded group that anyone can obtain a GRA. And with no gatekeeping.
There is no definition or measurement placed on the alleged ‘conditions’ (living ' as a woman') to get a GRA, so it’s open to all.
And the bigger lie underlying all of this, as Shona knows, is that the GRA is a distraction. Its an important symbolic victory for either side of the debate, but the SNP have aligned themselves and are progressing the movement of an agenda which says that you do not need at GRA to enter women’s spaces.
Women’s spaces and services and sports, with the approval of the SNP, are open to all men. Not even men who say they are trans, because questioning the presence of a male in a woman’s space or service would be transphobic.
Rape Crisis Scotland is run by a male who identifies as a woman and who does not have a GRC and who thinks that women survivors who do not want to share their services with males are bigots who need to reframe their trauma. Because that is the sort of Scotland the SNP want.
So no, Shona, despite her radio interview today, categorically is not interested in single sex spaces, does not value them and the SNP position is categorically to remove them to make space for males.
Just had to get that off my chest.