The author recently accused the Scottish First Minister of being a 'destroyer of women’s rights', which Sturgeon has now refuted.
The First Minister described herself as a “passionate feminist”, when asked about theRowling, who has sparked backlash for her views on issues relating to gender identity and the trans community, shared a photo of herself wearing the garment in support of a protest outside Holyrood on Thursday against the reform of the Gender Recognition Act.
The Scottish Government has introduced the Gender Recognition Reform Bill, which aims to improve and simplify the application process for the Gender Recognition Certificate by making it less lengthy and intrusive., the Bill does not introduce any new rights for trans people but will mean that trans people can have better access to their human rights.
A majority of MSPs on the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee of the Scottish Parliament voiced their support for the general principles of the Bill in a report released on Thursday, with the first vote on the legislation due for the end of this week.Rowling showed her support on Twitter for the more-than 100 strong protest outside Holyrood, which featured speakers including former Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont.
She said: “No, I’ve spent my entire life campaigning for women’s rights and I’m a passionate feminist with lots of evidence behind that.Sturgeon said the Bill is about “reforming an existing process” and “doesn’t give any more rights to trans people and it doesn’t take any rights away from women”.“Any man who seeks to abuse any process to attack women, we should deal with that, we shouldn’t stigmatise further an already stigmatised group of people,” she said.
“This is a statutory process, there are criminal implications for anybody who abuses that – it is not a process without significant conditions attached to it.”"The threat to women in our society today is not from trans women.
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