

There was also a huge public backlash against the reforms after trans predator Isla Bryson was initially sent to a women's prison after being convicted of two rapes. The legislation would have allowed Scots to change their legal gender in only six months by signing a statutory declaration, removing the need for a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria.Īlister Jack, the Scottish Secretary, blocked the bill after it was passed by MSPs using an order tabled under Section 35 of the Scotland Act on the grounds that it undermined UK-wide protections for women. The former first minister was named Celebrity Ally of the Year at the Rainbow Honours awards in London after her government pressed ahead with the Gender Recognition Reform (GRR) Bill. Her defence came after Ms Sturgeon insisted women's safety would not be endangered by the reforms as she accepted an award in London for promoting LBGT rights. Ms Robison admitted that Miller was a "predatory man" but argued that opposing the self-ID reforms would be akin to discriminating against all trans people because of the behaviour of an individual. Miller then drove her to his house and subjected her to a series of sexual assaults over the following 27 hours. She said she had accepted the offer and got into the Jaguar car because she was cold and believed the “lady” to be non-threatening. The High Court in Edinburgh heard how trans butcher Andrew Miller's victim had been unable to get a bus home and so started to walk when she was approached "by a lady in a car" who offered to give her a lift.

Shona Robison, who steered the Gender Recognition Reform (GRR) Bill through Holyrood when serving in Nicola Sturgeon's government, was challenged over her claim that men did not have "to pretend to be anything else to carry out predatory and abusive behaviour".

Scotland's Deputy First Minister has defended her insistence that there was "no evidence that predatory and abusive men" could exploit the SNP's self-ID gender reforms after a trans butcher sexually assaulted a primary school girl.
