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[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

A trans woman who raped two women before she changed gender will not serve her sentence in a female jail, Scotland's first minister has said.

Isla Bryson was remanded to Cornton Vale women's prison after being convicted of carrying out the rapes when she was a man called Adam Graham.

Bryson decided to transition from a man to a woman while awaiting trial. Nicola Sturgeon has now said Bryson will not be incarcerated at Cornton Vale.

It’s rather a big blow to the SNP and Scottish government after they made such a massive deal about self-ID. Handing the Tories in Westminster who blocked the Scottish Parliament’s legislation, using constitutional rules to block legislation that has effects outside the scope of Edinburgh for the first time, a massive victory - all the more bitter for the SNP as it was a calculated attempt to rile up nationalist sentiment ahead of a renewed push for another independence referendum.

They seriously misjudged the public’s opinion on the trans issue.

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

all the more bitter for the SNP as it was a calculated attempt to rile up nationalist sentiment ahead of a renewed push for another independence referendum.

I'm not over there, so my knowledge on the subject is spotty (at best), but it seems kind of weird that they're in a rush to cut loose from the UK, but at the same time eager (from what I vaguely remember reading in passing years back, when the UK itself split from the EU) to burrow into the EU's warm embrace.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Don’t try to make sense of it.