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The Distance

'Gender Identity' Has Claimed Its First Major Political Casualty In Scotland's Nicola Sturgeon

She will not be the last

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Matt Osborne
Feb 15, 2023
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Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye

Having wedded herself to disastrous “self-ID” legislation, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is divorcing the Scottish government.

“That Nicola Sturgeon's resignation has come today is, clearly, a surprise to just about everyone in Scottish politics,” lies Phillip Sim, an actual journalist employed by the BBC.

Sim mentions Sturgeon’s ‘gender reform’ legislation dismissivley in his last sentence. However, he reports that Sturgeon “said she had been wrestling with the decision for some weeks,” which amounts to the same thing.

How many is “some weeks”? According to dictionaries, that word means more than one, but not many. Let’s be fair and say that by “some weeks,” Sturgeon is admitting that this has been on her mind for eight weeks.

What was happening exactly eight weeks ago? Oh yes, Nicola was passing the Gender Recognition Reform Bill to make “self-ID” the law of the land, allowing any man to '“identify” as a woman with some paperwork and a th…

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