Women in Scotland are being put in danger because self-ID policy is still being pushed by SNP ministers, public bodies and charities, according to Tory leadership frontrunner Kemi Badenoch.
The former equalities minister launched a strongly worded attack on the ‘dangerous’ approach still being taken by the Scottish Government and said gender self-ID must be removed from policy-making.
She accused national charity Rape Crisis Scotland (RCS) of a ‘muddled’ understanding of the law after a rape support centre in Glasgow severed ties with it because it wanted to provide a single-sex service staffed by an all-female workforce.
She also claimed that people are trying to push forward their own ‘political agenda’ in such organisations.
Ms Badenoch said: ‘This issue with Rape Crisis Scotland is an example of what happens when people do not actually look at what the law says and start bringing in policy that is derived from campaign groups.
‘Many of the campaign groups try to rewrite policy that is not what the law says and I think that Rape Crisis Scotland got very muddled in its understanding of what provisions it needed to provide.
‘There are a lot of people who have gone into these organisations not to serve the women but to deal with their own political agenda or to push forward their own political campaigning...We need to get the politics out of a lot of service provision.’
She added: ‘We need to get the concept of self-ID out of a lot of public policy-making where people think that is what the law is. That is how we ended up with the Isla Bryson case, where we had a rapist going into a women’s prison.
‘It is very dangerous, it is bad for women...I’m actually quite worried we have policy-makers who don’t understand.’
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