Adult Human Females - Abstruse Legal Argument
Ed Davey can't say it. Keir Starmer is lost in confusion. The Green Party are split from top to bottom. So, First Minister, do you think a woman is an adult human female? https://t.co/PrZ762o0Jn
— Iain Macwhirter (@iainmacwhirter) September 22, 2021
Herald columnist Iain Macwhirter with his take on 'Woman - adult human female' and how an abstruse legal argument has managed to find its way to the top of the political agenda.
"Stonewall says that women do have a right to single sex spaces but do not have a right to exclude transwomen from them, because such exclusion would be discriminatory under other provisions of the Act. This abstruse legal argument used to be very much on the fringes of political life. But it is about to become centre stage. Nicola Sturgeon says she has found a way of achieving self-ID without diminishing women's sex-based rights. Good luck with that. We'll know if and when she agrees that a woman is an adult human female."