The SNP just will not stop defying the law.
Public bodies will be forced to consider gender identity under a proposed Scottish human rights bill that threatens to undermine the Supreme Court’s ruling on sex.
The draft Human Rights Bill for Scotland, due to be discussed at Holyrood in the coming weeks, contains a clause that would force public bodies to consider “gender identity” when forming policies and delivering services.
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That would directly contradict the Supreme Court ruling in April 2025, which clarified that the definition of a woman is based on someone’s biological sex, not what gender someone feels they are.
On account of how biological sex is real and inescapable, while what _______ people feel they are can be anything and everything and is of interest only to the feeler.
SNP ministers have repeatedly attempted to frustrate how the Supreme Court ruling is implemented by fighting legal challenges over its schools and prisons policies.
On both occasions, the campaign group For Women Scotland (FWS) has successfully argued the policies, which allowed for biological males to enter female-only spaces, were unlawful.
Do two occasions amount to “repeatedly”? Clumsy writing is clumsy.
FWS said a Scottish human rights bill could become the latest example of the Scottish government attempting to bypass the Supreme Court ruling. The group warned that it was “almost guaranteed to be another law that will end up in the courts”.
A FWS spokeswoman said: “Putting gender identity into Scots law is hugely problematic. The Equality Act recognises the right not to believe in the concept of gender identity yet the Scottish government plans to legislate for a compulsory belief in it and for public bodies to take it into account.”
Which will be like legislating for a compulsory belief that people are whatever movie star or footballer or rock star or charismatic tv host they say they are.