A storm of words: The UK’s latest constitutional clash parsed
Reading time: 1 minute
Helen Dale
The looming constitutional court clash over Scotland’s proposed gender reforms is the subject of a new article by writer and former practising lawyer Helen Dale.
Ms Dale, who has law degrees from Oxford and Edinburgh, details the background to the bill and the rationale for the UK government’s opposition to it.
She writes: “In brief, this is what’s happened: Holyrood has passed a piece of legislation that collapses legal sex into biological sex, meaning that men can become women and women can become men, but only if they were born in Scotland or are ‘ordinarily resident’ there. However, there is already law in force throughout the rest of the UK that either makes this impossible or at least difficult: all set about with fever-trees, much like Rudyard Kipling’s great, grey-green, greasy Limpopo River.”
Share this article:
Subscribe to our newsletter to not miss articles like this one:
SUBSCRIBE
