SNP Equalities Minister claims there shouldn’t be ‘blanket ban’ on males in women’s spaces despite Supreme Court ruling

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The MSP for Glasgow Kelvin – who was pictured at a controversial rally in 2023 where activists called for feminist “Terfs” to be decapitated – was quizzed at a hustings in Glasgow on Wednesday night.

David Henry, a Workers Party of Scotland candidate in Edinburgh, said he’d asked her why the Scottish Government was not properly enforcing single-sex spaces following the 2025 ruling.

He said Ms Stewart responded by speaking about transgender people, even though his question was posed due to his 81-year-old mother, who has dementia, being attacked by a man placed in a hospital ward among vulnerable women.

“We can absolutely do that. What we cannot do is to blanket ban people from places.”

Ms Stewart added: “I think it’s perfectly possible to be able to protect single-sex spaces, but also to make sure that some of the most marginalised people in society also have their health needs taken care of, that their rights are also protected. Is it really beyond us?”

hustings at The Ark centre in Glasgow’s Govanhill showed Ms Stewart saying: “Human rights are not pick and mix, and we should not be pitted against different communities. It is absolutely possible to have differences of opinions, differences of views, and to be able to go together and to live, and to respect each others’ spaces.

Mr Henry said: “I hadn’t even realised she was a government minister when I asked the question. It was about single-sex spaces because of my mother’s experience, and the safety of other women who find themselves in similar situations.”

Edited extracts from article in full at https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/16086016/snp-minister-blanket-ban-males-womens-spaces/

She’s a politician who’s shown that she’s not to be trusted by Scottish women. At least she’s not pretending to have changed her views while an election is looming.

“Human rights are not pick and mix, and we should not be pitted against different communities. It is absolutely possible to have differences of opinions, differences of views, and to be able to go together and to live, and to respect each others’ spaces.

A programmed response if I ever heard one, but then all politicians are a primed with sound bites and meme's and all the answers a bland, generalised and non-committal. It's why nobody listens to them or believes a word they say and if they were paying the slightest amount of attention to the electorate they'd have twigged to that by now.

Also in the Times
https://www.thetimes.com/article/c1d2436a-51d7-4fb4-84f9-b2096bb194c6?shareToken=b2a44677c5ff6b14a057da2baca84110&ver=article

Getting your dick out anywhere you like is not a human right.

Are these people really so tiresomely stupid? Yes we do have blanket bans on things. Adults are blanket banned from things that are for children, people without disabilities are banned from things that are for people with disabilities, women who are not pregnant don't get maternity leave etc

god are they just performatively fuckwitted or genuinely that hard of thinking?

Thanks for the link to the Times article.

Given there are only 2 sexes why would it be difficult to implement a ban, we've being doing so for a long, long time, why would it be so difficult to go back to doing it?

"...because she had been criticised by those with “extreme views on both sides”.
I'm aware of extreme views on one side, what are the extreme views on the other? 🤔

This

What an absolute fuckwit.
Do we need to look at all blanket bans then? I mean, I'm sure it would be good for the economy if we let children work in factory sweatshops. Shall we review the laws around that too?
We could really get a whole Victorian thing going again...no rights for women or children, and just the privileged white men in charge.
The TRAs should be honest that that is clearly what they want. They and the incels could then form a united front.

“Human rights are not pick and mix, and we should not be pitted against different communities. It is absolutely possible to have differences of opinions, differences of views, and to be able to go together and to live, and to respect each others’ spaces."

She should say that to the men who want access to women's spaces.

She's fully immersed in the gender woo, she is a true believer. Which is concerning, considering she's meant to be the equalities minister.

Whenever I see this image my mind always goes to Glinner’s “Tarquin”… Something about the distinctive flubby chin

Whilst I agree with comments about her as an individual, what is worse is that the party she is part of has made her responsible for "equalities".

That is what is really disheartening.

Surely they could have found someone who is at least "neutral".

How can anyone be given the brief of equalities when they dont believe and and clear stated they dont think women should have equality.

A lone individual saying something is one thing, but an Equalities Minister saying it is another.

What a slap in the face to women by the SNP.

Yes. With equalities, it seems handy to check against the race sensitivity. Take dscrimination examples disadvantaging old people, disabled people, or women, versus the same examples, against someone based on having a dark skin: e g . If men are not being put at risk of violent assault, but women are, then try to imagine white people being perfectly safe on hospital wards, changing rooms or prisons, but with officials eagerly ensuring dark skinned people are put at maximum risk of harm.

Can't get it back at the moment, but the EHCR newsletter reports on their battle with Good Law Project, and says it has managed to get a number of organisations to observe the actual law, not the fantasy one.

Which seems good, except that they appear to think the 'incorrect' interpretation was limited to only the handful of organisations they challenged. They cleansed a drop in the toxic ocean.

They could usefully tell Phillipson to release the hounds.

I keep imagining the conversation.

KS: Ok, so you have ruled that single sex spaces should be single sex, right?

Supreme Court: Yes

KS: So I’ve told all of Scotland that this doesn’t apply to activities beginning with B.

SC: It applies to activities beginning with B

KS: Well it doesn’t apply to TW who are really nice and look pretty.

SC: It does.

KS: But surely not to rapists and murderers? They can be trusted.

SC: It still applies.

KS: To Capricorns?

SC: Yes.

KS: Even to people who would be really sad?

SC: It still applies.

KS: OK, that’s clear. I’ll tell Scotland that it’s decided on a case by case basis.

SC: 🤦‍♀️

OK, that’s clear. I’ll tell Scotland that it’s decided on a case by case basis.

thing is, she’ll probably be reelected 🤯

The SNP don’t care about impartiality. They whip the votes to make sure everyone tows the party line. When committees have groups in to give evidence they are nearly always only from the “side” that SNP government wants to push through.

SNP have and will continue to give women a good kicking rather than a slap in the face

Oh it's that one.

Frankly any minister gormless enough to stand under a sign calling for unsurrendered women to be decapitated and not see the problem with this is a walking indication of the severe problem with modern politics rather than a person with the capacity for sensible views on anything. The fact she's still in post having done that is equally ridiculous.