Self-ID - An Insult To People's Intelligence

Nicola Sturgeon's barmy bill on Self-ID was steamrollered though the Scottish Parliament.

MSPs were whipped into supporting the absurd notion that grown men should be able just to self declare that they are women or girls - with no safeguarding or medical oversight. update

Mandy Rhodes hit the nail on the head in this excellent piece for Holyrood Magazine.

MSPs can’t just abdicate responsibility for good law and place the onus on outside agencies or individuals to then take up the cudgels and challenge their poor decisions. That’s not how our democracy should work. 

Our parliament must surely be more than just a talking shop where debate has shrunk to little more than expressions of one’s own experience of trauma or an opportunity for self-congratulatory speeches and mutual adoration.

Where is the challenge, the robust scrutiny? MSPs aren’t commentators, or bystanders. They are elected to be our representatives, to lead us and to make good law that protects and upholds all that we perceive to be right and just. That is their fundamental duty and not one to be farmed out.

As everyone now accepts the vast majority of Scots are opposed self-ID - yet elitist politicians have set themselves on a collision course with public opinion, science, reason and common sense.