Nicola Sturgeon's ruling on the Supreme Court's legal definition of a woman in her first public comment said in her first public comment that the lives of transsexuals in the UK are at risk of being "unrealized" as a legislative prompt she oversaw in the Scottish Parliament.
The Supreme Court of the UK ruled that the terms “women” and “sex” in the Equality Act are referred to only as biological women and biological sexual behavior. This is the conclusion of the long-term action of the Scottish Women’s Critical Campaign Group, who opposed a law passed in Holyrood to improve the public board representatives of women, extending to trans women.
Sturgeon said the Supreme Court's ruling "in definition...the law of land" - cannot be challenged, but expressed deep concern about the interim recommendation issued by the Commission on Equality and Human Rights, which involves a ban on transgender bans on transgender and other gender services.
“For me, the question, I think for a lot of people, how to translate it into practice now; this certainly protects women, but also allows trans people to live their lives in dignity and security and recognized ways.
“I would be very worried about this temporary guidance being the final guidance, and I hope that is not the case because I think it has the potential to make the lives of trans people almost impossible to drive.
“Of course, this doesn’t make single women safer to do so, because the threat to women comes from predatory and abusive men.”
The former first minister and SNP leader added that the verdict would make transgender lives “incredible” not inevitable, but that certain explanations could put trans rights at risk.
"If that's the case, it's the law I think needs to be looked at," she told reporters in the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday.
Since the ruling, Scottish media and well-known gender critical activists have been calling for Sturgeon to respond, which has prompted the joy of gender critical activists and sent shockwaves through the trans community.
Sturgeon has been a staunch advocate of trans rights, and her final years of the Premier League have been dominated by increasingly toxic and polarized debates surrounding flagship gender recognition reforms at the end of 2022.
The bill received cross-party support in Holyrood, making it easier and invasive to legally change gender, extending the new self-identity system to children aged 16 and 17. However, this was immediately blocked by Rishi Sunak's British government as it involved the entire UK Equality Act.
After this unprecedented veto, Sturgeon accuses some opponents of using women’s rights as “acceptability to mask the acceptability of transphobia” and told the News Agency podcast that some criticism of the legislation also “is also “a bit misogynistic, often homosexual, possibly homosexual, and possibly racist.
On Tuesday, Sturgeon rejected many critics’ suggestions that she apologized to them after the ruling.
“What I respect from the root is disagreement,” she said. “I recognize different views on this, I always recognize different views on this, but I think both directions rely on that.”
But Scottish Women's co-director Susan Smith said Sturgeon's statement was "frankly" "frankly" and it was "frankly wrong and disturbing". Smith told the BBC Scottish News that a single-sex space is needed to provide women with “privacy, dignity, security when vulnerable”.