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Nicola Sturgeon Brands Double Rapist Isla Bryson 'a Biological Male'
SCOTLAND, AUG 11 – Nicola Sturgeon said rapists likely lose gender self-identification rights amid debate over transgender offender Isla Bryson and Scotland's gender recognition laws.
- In her first television interview ahead of her memoir Frankly, Nicola Sturgeon said that anyone who commits the most heinous male crime against women probably forfeits the right to be the gender of their choice, ITV News At Ten.
- The controversy began when Scottish Prison Service initially placed Isla Bryson, a convicted rapist, in Cornton Vale women’s prison before transferring her to HMP Edinburgh after public outcry.
- She acknowledged that `We'd lost all sense of rationality in this debate` and said she `should have been much more straightforward` on Bryson's gender, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon admitted.
- Following the controversy, the SNP changed policy so all newly convicted or remanded transgender prisoners are placed according to their birth sex, and Michelle Thomson criticized Sturgeon’s late comments.
- Broader debate over self-ID laws intensified when MSPs passed the controversial Gender Recognition Reform Bill, later blocked by Westminster, highlighting ongoing conflicts.
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Nicola Sturgeon defends trans community despite saying trans criminals forfeit 'the right to be the gender of their choice'
It was "probably was not the best phrase to use," said the former Scottish first minister The post Nicola Sturgeon defends trans community despite saying trans criminals forfeit ‘the right to be the gender of their choice’ appeared first on Attitude.
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