Posted on 01/17/2023 4:32:44 AM PST by jerod
The U.K. government on Monday blocked a law voted by Scotland’s parliament on gender recognition, the first time that the London-based government has stopped a Scottish law from passing, in a move that will deepen divisions between Scottish nationalists and the U.K.
The controversial Scottish law, passed in November, makes it easier for transgender people to get official government recognition of their acquired gender by removing any need for a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria and lowering the age from 18 to 16.
“I have not taken this decision lightly,” said the Secretary of State for Scotland Alister Jack. He added the law “would have a significant impact” on equalities laws that govern the U.K. as a whole.
U.K. government officials have expressed concerns in recent weeks that the new legislation could undermine women’s rights as laid out in a 2010 law. Kemi Badenoch, the government’s women and equalities minister, has said she worries the new legislation could be used by predatory males to self-declare themselves transgender and access women-only bathrooms or even shelters for abused women...
...“This is a full-frontal attack on our democratically elected Scottish Parliament and its ability to make its own decisions on devolved matters,” wrote Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP’s leader.
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Northern Ireland will eventually break away...and it could very well be soon. Ditto Scotland.Maybe not soon but it will happen.
Has Arlen Specter chimed in?…
Idiots. Proves there are reasons, both historical as well as this one, why they should never self govern.
The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn.
Imagine how much cash got spread among Scottish Parliament members to persuade them to pass that idiotic anti-female globohomo legislation.
Scotland is not exactly a poofter place. That has to be a bought deal. Courageous to strike down the woke and toxic idiocy.
There is a full on effort to completely destroy the UK by making sexual perversion mainstream and overwhelming illegal immigration.
Same as here.
WTF is wrong with Scotland these days? Bravehart must be spinning in his grave.
My impression of Scotland is that it’s a miserable place filled with people whose life goal is to get the hell out of there. Turning into a transgender haven might be the political equivalent of Gillette or Disney building a business model around sexual deviancy after the company has already begun to decline for other reasons.
Not like they aren’t accustomed to seeing men in skirts, but seriously…
Is it too late to stop the insanity?
The Government will now tell you what Gender you are ? LOL
Scotland your Sturgeon is rotten throw it back
“...devolved matters.” ?? As in non-evolutionary?
Or...Devolution...
There have always been problems there. That’s why my ancestors left and came here in the mid-1700’s before the Revolutionary War.
Scotland hasn’t been the same since Culloden.
Must be from all those centuries of wearing kilts.
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