The lives of transgender people run the risk of being “almost unnecessis” after the sentence of the Supreme Court on the definition of a woman, according to former Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
The former SNP leader, who spoke for the first time about the historical ruling, also raised companies on the provisional orientation issued by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
The Supreme Court ruled last month that sex is defined by biological sex under the Equality Law.
Sturgeon said the court authority could not be questioned, but said that the key issue was how the ruling resulted in practice.
The ruling of the Supreme Court followed years of legal disputes that he begged in 2018, while Sturgeon was prime minister.
Since then, the EHRC has published a provisional update about what it means for the operation of single -sex spaces.
It establishes that in places such as hospitals, stores and restaurants, trans women should not be allowed to use facilities for women.
Speaking to journalists in the Scottish Parliament, the former SNP leader said: “I would worry a lot if that interim guide became the final guide.
“I hope that is not the case because I think Potentially makes the life of trans people can hardly live.”
An outstanding defender of transgender rights, the Sturgeon government introduced controversial reforms of gender recognition that would have facilitated people in Scotland to change their legally recognized sex.
The reforms were ultimately blocked by the United Kingdom government.
Sturgeon said that “fundamentally” disagree with the claims to apologize for opponents of gender recognition reforms.
The former prime minister said no one could question the authority of the Supreme Court.
However, he said that there were questions about how the trial would be put into practice in a way that protects women and allows trans people to live with “dignity” and security.
‘Impossible difficult’
Sturgeon told journalists: “I think that some of the first indications would generate concerns in my mind that we run the risk of making the life of trans people can hardly live and I do not believe that most people in the country Windet Dater.
“It certainly does not make a single woman safer to do that because the threat to women, as I think we all know, comes from predatory and abuse men.”
She said that it was not “inevitable” that the trial makes the lives of transible transposable people difficult, but said there was a danger that could happen depending on the way in which the ruling was interpreted.
The SNP MSP told reporters that this happened, so changes in the law as it is, what should be consulted.
The Scottish government has said that it accepts the ruling of the Supreme Court and is waiting for the complete EHRC guide, which is expected in the summer.
The case followed years of heated debate on transgender and women rights, including controversy over the transgender rapist Bryson Initialle in a women’s prison and an ongoing employment court that involves a cream of female docter documents.
The case of the Supreme Court was played by the campaign group for Women Scotland.
His co -director Susan Smith said Sturgeon had been “false.”
She said that single -sex spaces were needed to provide women “privacy, dignity, security at the time they are vulnerable.”
The activist told BBC Scotland News that it was “frankly incorrect and quite disturbing” to affirm that life would be “cannot be lived” for a section of society if they could not access those services.
The Scottish conservative vice president, Rachael Hamilton, said: “Nicola Sturgeon hunched the women and divided Scotland with their reckless gender self -mood policy, however, it still cannot apologize.”
She added: “Nicola Sturgeon needs to raise his hands and apologize to the women of Scotland.”
