Mick Hartley

The queen of weaponising the trans debate shows zero comprehension or remorse. From the Times:

Nicola Sturgeon has claimed there “was nothing I could have done” to have improved the tone of the debate on trans rights, in a reversal of her previous position.

Apart perhaps from slagging off her opponents as homophobes, bigots and racists.

“This issue is not as toxic and divisive amongst the general public as it is amongst campaigners on both sides of the debate,” Sturgeon said.

“I reflected in the book that maybe I could have done more to avoid the issue becoming so toxic and polarised. I have to say, the reaction of some of the campaigners on the other side of this debate to me suggested that I might have been wrong about that.

Asked whether she expended too much political capital on her self-ID law, which would have allowed anyone aged 16 or over to obtain a gender recognition certificate by signing a declaration, she denied doing so.

Sturgeon’s name will forever be linked with Isla Bryson.

A spokeswoman at For Women Scotland, the group which secured last year’s landmark Supreme Court ruling, said Sturgeon remained “in her own bubble, convinced of her own righteousness and as disconnected as ever from the ordinary men and women of Scotland.”

She added: “Few lawmakers have tried to destroy women’s legal rights with the single-minded determination of Ms Sturgeon, leaving the rest of us to mop up the chaos caused in hospitals, prisons, and the violence against women sector. Now, it seems, she can’t even take responsibility for her failures and continues to blame women’s rights campaigners for the ‘toxic’ debate while she — who held all the cards — alternately ignored us and smeared us.”