Transgender people’s lives at risk of being made ‘unliveable’, says Nicola Sturgeon
by Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6X3NW)
Former Scottish first minister expresses concern about interim advice from EHRC
The lives of transgender people in the UK are at risk of being made unliveable", Nicola Sturgeon has said in her first public comments about the supreme court ruling on the legal definition of a woman, which was prompted by legislation she oversaw in the Scottish parliament.
The UK supreme court ruled that the terms woman" and sex" in the Equality Act referred only to a biological woman and to biological sex. This was the conclusion of a long-running court action by the gender critical campaign group For Women Scotland, who objected to a law passed at Holyrood aimed at improving women's representation on public boards being extended to transgender women.
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