Nicola Sturgeon has vowed to tackle transphobia within the SNP if it exists, insisting she takes on “bigotry” whenever she encounters it.
She was asked during First Minister’s Questions on Thursday whether her Government has broken its promises to transgender and nonbinary people.
It came after she tweeted a video message on the issue, following reports of significant numbers of people leaving the SNP because they do not consider it to be a safe and tolerant place for trans people.
In the message posted on Wednesday evening, which she said was not scripted but “comes from my heart”, Ms Sturgeon said she does not care if people accuse her of being woke and there should be a zero-tolerance approach to transphobia.
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust in London was told by the Care Quality Commission it needed to significantly improve its services and waiting times.
A prominent philosophy professor has vowed not to be silenced after a group of academics criticised the decision to award her an OBE because she advocates that women should not be made to share toilets and changing rooms with transgender women.
Dr Kathleen Stock, 49, a professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex, has been outspoken on gender identity issues and claims many UK universities are becoming trans activist institutions where free academic debate is censored and suppressed.
In an open letter titled Open Letter Concerning Transphobia in Philosophy , 600 of her peers from institutions including the LSE and MIT criticised the decision to recognise her services to higher education, calling it a show of support for what they describe as harmful rhetoric and transphobic views .
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Daily Mail relates a story from Across the Pond about some judges who understand free speech. Good for them.
Judges have insisted that freedom of speech includes the right to offend in a landmark ruling which could help to turn the tide on woke intolerance after a feminist who called a transgender woman a pig in a wig and a man was cleared.
Presiding over a case in the Court of Appeal, Lord Justice Bean and Mr Justice Warby said: Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having.
They added that free speech encompasses the right to offend, and indeed to abuse another . The judgment from two senior members of the judiciary will set a precedent for future cases involving freedom of speech.
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Presiding over a case in the Court of Appeal, Lord Justice Bean and Mr Justice Warby said: Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having. Pictured, supporters of Kate Scottow protesting outside court earlier this yearJudges have insisted that
freedom of speech includes the right to offend in a landmark ruling which could help to turn the tide on woke intolerance after a feminist who called a transgender woman a pig in a wig and a man was cleared.
Presiding over a case in the Court of Appeal, Lord Justice Bean and Mr Justice Warby said: