If only the SNP were obsessed with independence and services

If only the Scottish Government and the SNP were as obsessed with independence and services, fighting poverty, funding local government properly, sorting out the mess that is the Scottish NHS, fixing education, improving the economy, you know that long list of really really important things that effect the majority of people in Scotland. No, what do we get from Sturgeon, we get her gender warriors using the party and the government to promote their gender ideology that the majority of people are just not interested in. We learn through a freedom of information request that The Scottish government is planning to put tampons and sanitary towels in male toilets in case they are required by transgender civil servants, and all of this is in a bid to climb the Stonewalls controversial Workplace Equality Index (WEI). Stonewall also requested ministers to remove ‘gendered’ words from official policies as part of its advice on becoming more LGBT friendly. The Scottish government’s WEI ranking fell to 127 in 2020, from 72 in 2019.

The freedom of information request also noted that civil servants could use the title ‘Mx’ on the government’s computer systems and staff directory, instead of Mr, Mrs or Ms.  The revelation comes a month after it emerged the Scottish civil service agreed to delete the word ‘mother’ from its maternity leave policy after pressure from Stonewall. Documents released under Freedom of Information laws uncovered how Leslie Evans, the permanent secretary, agreed to make the change in a bid to climb the lobby group’s controversial Workplace Equality Index (WEI). The legend that is the competent and brilliant Lesley Evans, a woman who is protected by Nicola Sturgeon while being a serial disaster in her role in the Scottish Government.

We know from a poll by Scot Goes Pop that only 20% of people in Scotland support self ID, so it is fair to say that right now, in Covid-19 pandemic Scotland, a Scotland facing ever worsening access to public health, to economic security and rising prices increasing poverty , that the Scottish Government should be focussing on, I’m sorry, the real and important issues right now. That is not to say that protections for transgender people are not important, they are, but not at the cost of good governance and the crisis we are facing right now in Scotland across the board in all of our services and day to day living.

SNP MSP’s need to focus on the issues that effect the majority right now and not trying to figure out ways to get people booted out of the SNP who may hold a different view to themselves, that is not a progressive inclusive party in any shape or form. The Scot Goes Pop poll also found by asking the following question that

Some people believe that biological sex cannot be changed, and that individuals who change their legal gender from male to female should not have unrestricted access to female-only spaces such as changing rooms, toilets, hospital wards and women’s refuges.  How do you think society should treat these beliefs?

These beliefs should not be tolerated because they are bigoted or transphobic: 20%

These beliefs should be respected as a legitimate part of democratic debate: 53%

Don’t Know / Prefer not to answer: 27%

So to sadly paraphrase Ruth Davidson, Nicola Sturgeon GET ON WITH THE DAY JOB!