SCOTTISH Greens MSP Maggie Chapman, above, last week told BBC Scotland News the trans community is now worried that “people are coming after their right to exist” as a result of the ruling.
But judges sided with campaign group For Women Scotland, which brought a case, arguing that sex-based protections should only apply to those born female.
Chapman, a prominent supporter of trans rights, told the BBC’s Good Morning Scotland programme the decision would “stoke the fires of the culture war” and trans people now feared they could lose access to facilities they’ve used, in some cases, for decades.
She said:
The response by For Women Scotland and other associated groups was very, very clear – they are taking this as a victory and that is potentially dangerous about where they go next. We’ve already heard people say they want to repeal the gender recognition act 2004, and trans people are worried that people are coming after their right to exist.
Billie Robertson, a hotel worker from Arran who now lives in Ayrshire, told BBC Scotland News she had been left in shock by the news and was concerned about the impact on day to day life.
She said:
It feels like I’ve been placed in an ‘other’ category. The court said transgender rights aren’t going to be affected, but there’s been no further discussion on ‘this is where you can and can’t be, so here’s alternatives’. It just feels like a very definitive statement without any follow-up for the group of people who are affected.
However Rachel Hamilton, of the Scottish Conservatives, told Good Morning Scotland the court’s decision was ” basic common sense” and would being “clarity” to the trans debate.
She said:
The reason we ended up at the Supreme Court is because there was confusion in Scotland. Now we have a clear and unambiguous decision on what is a biological woman.
She said the Scottish government must set out a ministerial statement on how they would move forward with the Supreme Court ruling.
Christian groups cock-a-hoop
Most pleased with the ruling, naturally, are conservative Christian groups in the UK who have been at war with LGBT communities for years, and have lately been joined by American bigots, such as Lois McLatchie Miller, above, of the US hate organisation, ADF International.
Speaking to Premier Christian News, Lois McLatchie, spokesperson for ADF, described the ruling as “a landmark ruling for truth”.
We can welcome this ruling as Christians. We can see it as a victory for a woman, but also a victory for truth. And the truth is helpful for everybody. The truth is helpful as we approach how to love and support people who are confused about their own gender and point them to a greater knowledge that they are loved and accepted in their own bodies, their own skin, and don’t need to change gender to feel that affirmation.
To this garbage she added that Christians must pointmtrans people “to a greater truth: that they are made in the image of God, made perfectly, not in the wrong body.”
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