Alex Salmond blasts Nicola Sturgeon for damaging support for Scottish independence over her controversial stance on trans prisoners
The former first minister said the furore over trans woman Isla Bryson, a rapist with male genitals who was initially sent to a women’s prison, had led to a decline in support for the cause.
A recent YouGov poll put support for independence at 47%, down from 53%, while backing for the SNP at Westminster was on 42%. Speaking at an Alba party Burns supper in Dundee on Saturday – the same weekend the poll came out – Mr Salmond said: "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.
The row over where Bryson should be held came just after MSPs passed the controversial Gender Recognition Reform bill in Scotland, which makes it easier to officially change gender.
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