The former SNP leader was scathing of the Scottish Government's proposed gender recognition reforms.
Alex Salmond has accused Nicola Sturgeon of "throwing away" momentum for Scottish independence by pushing through gender recognition reforms at Holyrood.
The survey was carried out at the same time as a row over the imprisonment of double rapist Isla Bryson was raging in Scotland. The saga led to Scottish Justice Secretary Keith Brown pausing the movement of transgender prisoners into women’s jails if they have a history of violence. In a video clip shared widely on Twitter, the former First Minister said: "But to get to a position where you say to a majority of our people that you cannot have single-sex spaces – prized and worked and strived for – because of some daft ideology imported from elsewhere and, as we’ve seen imperfectly understood by its proponents in Scotland, borders on the totally absurd.
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