Bullies, Transphobes and the Scottish Parliament

The Times reports that some SNP members are getting increasingly jumpy about doing a deal to bring the Greens into the Scottish Government.

So they should since the Scottish Green Party (SGP) leader (Patrick Harvie) stands accused of calling his former MSP  colleague, Andy Wightman, a 'transphobe' which is no way for a minister, or potential minister, to behave, if you ask me.

Wightman, widely respected on a cross party basis during his time in the Scottish Parliament, has also described the SGP leadership as 'censorious, bullying and intimidatory'.

Seems fair given that Wightman was threatened with disciplinary action for supporting a vote to allow victims of sexual crimes (predominantly women) to choose the sex, rather than the gender, of the person who examined them.

Surely the Scottish Parliament should probe and look into these allegations before the respective leaders of the SNP and SGP stitch up some grubby deal? 




 

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