Mick Hartley

Back to Scotland – the gift that keeps on giving for gender nonsense.

Councillors in Edinburgh are considering whether to remove funding from a service that does not support trans women..

Alex Staniforth, a Scottish Greens councillor, has lodged a motion calling for a review of how the local authority allocates funds to domestic abuse services..

The move is a reaction to an announcement from Edinburgh Women’s Aid (EWA), one of Scotland’s largest domestic abuse charities, that it will not allow trans women or non-binary males to use its 24-hour refuges or group counselling services..

This, of course, after the ongoing disaster of the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, where a man claiming to be a woman was appointed as top banana.

Staniforth, a Scottish Greens councillor who identifies as non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, has tabled a motion that will be debated at a meeting of the full council.

Staniforth expressed the concern that if trans women are not welcome to use single-sex services they have no alternative provision. “If there is a blanket ban on trans people accessing the service that is not acceptable,” the councillor said.

“It would be completely inappropriate for [a trans woman] to try to access men’s services. We wouldn’t allow any other minority women to be just cast aside completely like that.”

Ah, I think I see the flaw in his argument: trans women are not "any other minority women", but are, in fact, men. That's the problem, right there.

Asked whether a separate service for trans-indentified people might be a solution, Staniforth said: “Would we want separate refuges and services for people of colour?"

But how would he feel if a service for "people of colour" was invaded by people who blacked up?