In Carrie Kills A Man I wrote about meeting Nicola Sturgeon in 2019 as part of a group of trans and non-binary people; I said that my impression of her was of a genuine ally, but that many in her government were not. As The National reports, she’s spoken out about the Supreme Court verdict and the attempts to spin it into trans segregation.
She told reporters on Tuesday: “The Supreme Court judgement by definition is the law of the land.
“The question for me, and I think for a lot of people, is how that is now translated into practice.
“Can that be done in a way that protect women and also allows trans people to live their lives with dignity and in a safe and accepted way? I think that remains to be seen.
“I think some of the early indications would raise concerns in my mind that we are at risk of making the lives of trans people almost unliveable and I don’t think the majority of people in the country would want to see that.
“It certainly doesn’t make a single woman any safer to do that because the threat to women comes from predatory and abusive men.”