Nicola Sturgeon Refuses To Define What A Woman Is.

The prime minister, who described herself as a “feminist at my fingertips” last year, said it would “simplify” the debate over trans rights. Scottish leader Tory Douglas Ross suggested that her response was a leadership failure and would be “worrying to many people”. Mrs Sturgeon’s SNP-Green government is currently enacting legislation through Holyrood to reform gender recognition laws. The changes will make it faster and easier for trans people to obtain a certificate confirming their legal gender. Under the current system, this takes at least two years and a medical diagnosis. But Holyrood law proposes abolishing medical diagnosis in favor of self-declaration, with the timetable reduced to six months. Critics say the changes could help male sexual predators abuse the system. However, ministers argue that this is not the case, and the law will not abolish one-sex venues for women, such as shelters for domestic violence. The debate over trans rights has led to divisions in the SNP and other parties, as well as leaving politicians apparently confused by what seem relatively simple questions. Some transgender advocates argue that men who change their gender to become trans women are women just as if they were biologically born women. Critics say that a woman is an “adult woman” and that people who are born biological males, while they can change sex in the eyes of the law, can not change their biological sex. Last year, Labor leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was wrong to say that only women have a cervix, adding: “It’s something that should not be said, it’s not right.” In March of this year he also refused to say whether a woman could have a penis. Boris Johnson recently said that “biology” was a fundamental factor in distinguishing between men and women. In an interview with The Times, Sturgeon declined to use the word “woman.” He said: “I’m not going to do it, I’re just not going to get into this discussion on a level of simplistic and silly titles.” The Prime Minister continued: “Trans people are one, perhaps the most, who are stigmatized and discriminated against to the detriment of minorities in our society. “And whenever we simplify this debate too much, trans people really suffer, and I think it’s important, it’s such a small minority, that we take the issues of protecting and strengthening the rights of trans people really seriously.” Ms Sturgeon also said she was confident that Holyrood would vote on gender reform and that the SNP would remain united on the issue, despite many internal disagreements. Treasury Secretary Kate Forbes, a devout Christian, and SNP MP Joanna Cherry QC both had reservations about the reforms. Scottish leader Tory Douglas Ross said a woman was an “adult female” human being and was “surprised” that a politician with Ms Sterzon’s experience had not prepared for the question. He told the Herald: “It’s a question that is actually very simple when you analyze it. Biologically, we have males and females and females are adult females.” “This is a very moving issue, it is an issue that clearly divides many views and unfortunately the discussion around it is very toxic. “But as a politician and as a leader, you have to give a clear answer and Nicola Sturgeon who can not do it will be a concern for many people.” Former SNP MP Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, now a senior member of Alex Salmond’s Alba party, asked why Sturgeon refused to define what the word women meant. She wrote on Twitter: “How can politicians legislate for us if they do not say who and what we are biologically? “Talking about ‘sexism’ and ‘misogyny’ is hot if you do not know what a woman is.” Last year, Ms Sturgeon dismissed criticism of her gender reforms as “invalid”. He told MSP: “Gender reformation reform is about changing an existing process to make it less degrading, intrusive and traumatic for one of the most stigmatized minorities in our society. “We need to focus on the real threats to women, not the threats that, while I think some of these views are very honest, in my view, do not apply.” Lucy HunterBlackburn of MurrayBlackburnMackenzie, a political analyst, said: ». The feminist group For Women Scotland said: “Nicola Sturgeon’s refusal to nominate women is depressing, but not unexpected. “This is a First Minister who claims that she opposes sexism in politics, but can not meet and talk to women who are affected by her policies. “Her history of dealing with harassment and abuse within her own party leaves much to be desired. “Self-recognition, which we know has had a disproportionately detrimental effect on the most vulnerable, including minority women, seems to be its living political goal. Her proposals for identity are not about “trans people”, but about whoever chooses, for whatever reason, to change their gender by law. “Its ministers will not even say that they would prohibit sex offenders from obtaining Gender Identity Certificates that provide unprecedented levels of privacy. “All the evidence of harm to girls in school who are forced to use mixed sex facilities, to women in prison, to hundreds of girls who are confirmed as the opposite sex and are on a path to lifelong medical treatment must be rejected and rejected. “If the determination to pursue this backward, sexist policy is not misogyny – albeit wrapped in a blue and pink bow – we do not know what it is!”