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Susan Dalgety

Women won't forgive Nicola Sturgeon after Gender Recognition Bill controversy

For five years, women across Scotland tried to tell the First Minister that her plans to introduce self-ID – where anyone over 16 can change their legal sex by simply filling in a form – would put women at risk.

She dismissed their concerns as “not valid”.

They held rallies outside the Scottish Parliament, urging her to speak to them. She ignored them.

Women in her own party pleaded with her to change her mind. She turned her back on them.

Even when the United Nations warned that self-ID was a charter for violent and predatory men to abuse women and girls, Sturgeon stuck to her guns.

And when the UK Government intervened to block the Bill from becoming law, she threatened to take it to court.

Then, Isla Bryson, aka Adam Graham – a double rapist who claimed he was a woman – was sent to Cornton Vale, Scotland’s only all-female prison, and Scotland said: “Enough”.

In her resignation statement, Sturgeon tried to minimise the impact of the gender controversy.

But she did admit that one of the reasons she felt her time was up was because she had become too divisive a figure.

She’s right. A different First Minister would have found a way to modernise gender recognition without putting women at risk.

And a real feminist would not have repeatedly refused to accept that a double rapist was a man.

The controversy exposed her as a control freak incapable of changing tack. But worse, she turned her back on the women of Scotland. They will never forgive her.

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