Nicola Sturgeon says her sexuality isn't binary

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In the sun newspaper and I think also on STV news (according to my DM)

Besides Layla Moran has first dibs on being a pansexual politician, and Moran has the kind of ditzy persona that allows her to sort of get away with that. Sturgeon doesn't have that.

My working assumption about Sturgeon is she's bisexual, and more towards the gay end of the bi spectrum, but for a long time she chose to present as straight. There's nothing massively unusual about that. Read Christopher Hitchens' autobiography, where he barely mentions his wives but bangs on at great length about his love for Martin Amis.

Sturgeon's sexual orientation would not be half as relevant if she didn't also believe that lesbians don't have the right to reject male bodied people as sexual partners.

Why not just boring old bisexual? Why the confusing my sexuality has never been binary? Why does she bring this up as factor in transgender rights. It's of no relevance and who gives a shit about her sexuality. There's nothing genuine about this woman.

Because it's a step too far for your average nonbinary on the Clapham omnibus and she'd be ridiculed.

She's made so much noise about gender she really can't comment on 'sex'. Bisexuality has that built into the word and the concept - someone attracted to either sex.

Maybe I'm making the mistake of looking for logic again, though. As we all know a cardinal feature of genderism is that it doesn't make sense or cohere.

Can you imagine the laughing in the news room when they were trying to decide on the headline for that?

Oh if only it was Marie LePen. That would really stir stuff up and get the hidden crap rising to the surface exuding bubbles of methane and strange green radioactive phosphorescence. Honestly Nicola, if you are going to have a scandal make it one we can all enjoy, think of the book sales, you might even get a Netflix mini series out of it.

I can't be doing with either of them but how gloriously sweet would it be if he was a sell out and she ... wuzny.

Another Alex Massie comment in the Times:

https://www.thetimes.com/article/6e821865-7854-4d60-8e0b-05a648809152?shareToken=4b148c1d6ad9420f85202f0c1e9d367a

Haha, yeah, that'd be funny.
I never look at anything else than music that's on at Usher Hall but I did today and I realized I have no desire to go to any of the "An evening with...." or similar events.

I skipped a page from this thread earlier so didn’t see the old article I posted had already been posted. Still can’t believe she said that though about cutting doors.
Off to watch the interview now…

Good for her.
Frankly, her cool, calm, common sense delivery when the myriad men in power in Westminster were flapping about like headless chickens (or partying, whatever, meh we’ve mostly forgotten about that now, haven’t we?) got my CEV husband and I through many dark days and nights.
For that alone, I am truly grateful and very prepared to give her the benefit of the doubt.

As for her sexuality? Seriously, who gives a shit? We all deserve to be who we are.

Aye, and she coolly, calmly sent covid patients back to care homes. And coolly, calmly deleted her WhatsApp messages. And common-sensically told us that Isla Bryson was neither man nor woman, but 'rapist' gender.

And told schools to cut the bottom off the classroom doors 🤷‍♀️

@SionnachRuadh I think it's telling that she left no serious successors in the next generation, and they had to rewind the clock 20 years and bring Swinney back. The only one of the younger generation with real ability is Kate Forbes, and she's leaving next year.

Very much agree that leaders should be judged partly on how they manage their succession. My experience (in scientific research) has always been that the really bright people are always looking out for people who can challenge them intellectually and very keen to nurture the next generation of talent.

It's a sign of the lack of progress towards sex equality under Sturgeon that in 2025 Forbes still can't find a satisfactory way of combining motherhood with a high-level political career. Perhaps she’d have been more inclined to sacrifice time with her pre-school children if she could see a path to becoming FM in the next couple of years - regardless, she's walking away from a successful career before obviously reaching her ceiling. I think that's a pity and an indictment of the system.

I hope, for the sake of everyone in her position, that walking back into high-level politics after a break is normalised fairly rapidly. For a variety of reasons I think that the demos would benefit if many politicians split their political careers.

Ok.

Another article in the Times.
She still has no clue, no understanding, no insight, no wish to understand other people's views, not an ounce of humility.

https://www.thetimes.com/article/29160158-03f7-4afc-bce6-38a425c72df0?shareToken=d101faeab3d56de20fdd7cc918badcf6

And wanging on, self-promoting and not doing her day job on BBC breakfast this morning.

that Times article - ffs.

"However, in Frankly, Sturgeon writes: “Whatever the reason, when confronted with the question ‘Is Isla Bryson a woman?’ I was like a rabbit in the headlights.
“Because I failed to answer ‘yes’, plain and simple, to the basic question, I seemed weak and evasive."

As opposed to saying "Yes" and looking like an even bigger idiot?

The Times are doing their best to make sure nobody who wants to know what is in the memoir needs to buy it with their extensive coverage of it:
https://www.thetimes.com/article/b6919dfa-615e-4d34-a3fc-65fe1c92aff9?shareToken=8f9200544cf49ea3626f1b8abc2f38db

Jesus Christ. She's doubling down.

'In Frankly, Sturgeon states that while political opposition to her reforms were growing in 2022 and that campaigners’ anger was “bordering on hysteria”'

'Sturgeon said, for the first time, said that Bryson is a “biological male” but admitted she might “sometimes still seem as if I’m struggling with how to define Isla Bryson”.

She said this was “not out of any concern for Isla Bryson” but “out of concern for how that then affects the wider trans community, and that is difficult”.'

Difficult?! Did she never think how fucking difficult things might be for women in jail confronted by rapists? Or women unable to complain about men in their spaces for fear of being hauled in for her damn Hate Crime Act infractions?!

Hell mend you, Nicola Sturgeon.

I didn't think my opinion of her could have gone down any further, guess i was wrong about that.

So have I got this right? She's not actually rowing back on anything, she's just saying she didn't make herself clear enough, e.g. Bryson is a woman?

" I think that rapists probably should lose the right to self identify their gender".

This is nonsensical, in terms of trans ideology, in which you are either trans or you are not. It is not about "being allowed" to be who you are, surely?