A Scottish paradox

If a man says he's a woman, then, in Scotland, he is a woman - except, apparently, for rapist Adam Graham, aka Isla Bryson.

Brendan O'Neill:

Surely the broader problem here is the idea that ‘trans women are women’? That any man who says he is a woman is a woman? If you accept this idea, then you have to accept it for Bryson too, right? This is what I would like to ask Sturgeon: Do you think Bryson is a woman? Do you think his self-identification as female makes him female? If you do, why haven’t you put him in a women’s prison? And if you don’t, will you finally admit that JK Rowling and the many other critics of self-ID have a point when they say men are not women? 

Comments

[AlanS]

Just as well for her that her gender bill has been vetoed by the UK government. If it had become law, wouldn't Bryson have had a legal right to be held in a women's prison?

[Mick H]

Well...yes.