The United Nations expert on the rights of women and girls has told SNP ministers to immediately implement the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of “sex” in law. Reem Alsalem, newly re-appointed as the UN special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, said there should be no “pause” in action to ensure the sex-based rights of women were upheld and the Scottish government should “actually get on with it and do it” “I do not think we should pause or put on hold any action awaiting this guidance, and I don’t think the Supreme Court said that either,” she said.
In an interview with The Sunday Times, Alsalem also said that organisations had “punished” those who stood up for their sex-based rights. Referring specifically to Sandie Peggie, the nurse at the centre of an employment tribunal against NHS Fife, Alsalem said that public bodies that failed to support a woman’s right to single-sex spaces were going “against what is now the law of the land”.
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@sj_zero @HebrideanHecate Weirdly, Alsalem is sound on this. I’m a bit boggled that she is still in post.
It's funny how much human attempts to make life safer/better cause our problems
A hundred years ago, we let the men of the community drive off creeps and perverts
Now they are protected by law and we have to fight to get it to accept some reality