Mick Hartley

I don't have full access to The Herald Scotland, but I like the start of Kevin McKenna's article on the Sandie Peggie case – NHS trans tribunal is about much more than a nurse's fight for her job:

What better way to side-track the liberal left from their main goal of relieving poverty and opposing capitalism than by promoting an imaginary dogma of oppression? There’s a reason why corporate power and public sector influence has swung behind the campaign for trans rights. If you can convince sincere and well-motivated people that this is the moral crusade that defines the age then you can be left relatively undisturbed to amass your profits.

And what better way of doing this than by conjuring up an ethereal and contrived suite of slogans and declarations: trans rights are human rights; love is love?

The case of Sandie Peggie against NHS Fife is one of those cut-through moments when the general public have been afforded a glimpse behind the veil that’s been carefully drawn over the trans debate by Scotland’s political class.