Scotland’s new gender bill imperils the Union

Oct 29, 2022 by Andrew Symes

By Mary Harrington, unherd:

Holyrood’s vote puts Scotland on a collision course with Westminster.

Far from being a rabid bunch of far-Right ideologues, the Tories at Westminster are blinded by a reflex liberalism in which moral questions are treated as a matter for individual conscience.

The latest evidence of these political tendencies came on Thursday, as — unimpeded by even the faintest opposition from Westminster — Scotland moved a step closer to allowing people to ‘self-declare’ their gender with Holyrood’s vote on the Gender Recognition Act ‘reform’. This is a measure that would effectively render the sex marker on a birth certificate a matter for individual preference and some minimal paperwork.

Nine SNP MSPs defied the whip to vote against the Bill, with the SNP’s community safety minister, Ash Regan, resigning from her post at the last minute to do so. Away from the corridors of power, the policy has prompted fierce opposition by campaign groups. But still more than the SNP’s apparent disregard for the voices of ordinary women, what should concern us is Westminster’s myopia in allowing this legislation to proceed….

[…] should the Scottish Bill pass, the question “What is a person?” will have a different government-endorsed answer depending on which side of the (invisible, entirely porous) border between England and Scotland you’re standing.

A political union cannot remain internally divided on such a fundamental question.

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