Mick Hartley

Ah, Scotland, the land where the trans cult still lives on in all its demented glory – notably, as Gillian Bowditch points out in the Sunday Times, with state-supported breastfeeding for men:

Last week, Scottish Trans, a taxpayer-funded trans rights charity, said that the Supreme Court’s ruling damaged the legal protections of men “who are able to breastfeed”. These are, apparently, men who identify as women and who use hormone therapy or drugs to stimulate a form of lactation.

In its submission to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), which is producing guidance on the implementation of the Supreme Court judgement, Scottish Trans said there was now significant uncertainty over legal protection for “breastfeeding men.”

Why are we indulging these flat-earthers, let alone funding them? Breastfeeding men are an oxymoron — a feature of an Orwellian dystopia that the Scottish National Party and the Greens have attempted to will into existence. The Equality Network, of which Scottish Trans is a part, has received £2.5 million in public money over the past five years. Its funding is ongoing.

More pertinently, why are natal men who believe they can feed babies using drug-induced lactation not being routinely investigated by social services for this grotesque and dangerous form of experimentation?

At the very least, any form of taxpayer funding for organisations making a mockery of the law, of women and the will of the electorate ought to be pulled. Scottish Trans can promote the case of “breastfeeding men” but not on the public purse.

Because this is Scotland under the SNP.

Meanwhile, NHS Fife revealed that it had spent more than £220,000 of public money defending itself in the employment tribunal brought by nurse Sandy Peggie, who was suspended after complaining about having to share a changing room with a biologically male transgender medic.

NHS Fife argues that its liability is capped at £25,000 and the rest of the costs will be reclaimed through the national clinical negligence and other risks indemnity scheme, which is funded by the Scottish Government‘s Health and Social Care Directorate, itself funded by — you’ve got it — the taxpayer.

This utter waste of public resources would be infuriating at any time, but in an administration which has imposed the highest rates of income tax in the UK, and at a time of economic uncertainty, it is verging on the criminal. It doesn’t matter how often it is called out; nothing changes.

It’s not merely that taxpayers are funding splinter groups, vanity projects and cultish ideologies at odds with the electorate’s priorities for government, it’s that the SNP has lost sight of what government is for and where its remit and boundaries lie.