How the gender self-ID ‘disaster’ could get worse for the SNP

SNP MSPs and pollsters have warned leader John Swinney there is 'huge danger’ for the party unless it finds a clean break from Nicola Sturgeon’s stance TThe SNP must drop gender self-identification policies or face “disaster” at the 2026 Scottish election, leader John Swinney has been warned.The First Minister is facing calls to make clear that the plan pushed by his predecessor, Nicola Sturgeon, to make self-ID easier for transgender people is now dead.Swinney has also been urged to overhaul Scottish Government guidance, which has allowed transgender people to self-identify in order to access single-sex spaces such as women’s toilets and changing rooms.Failing to make a clean break with Sturgeon on the issue could prove “hugely dangerous” going into next year’s election, pollsters, political pundits and SNP sources told The i Paper.It follows the landmark judgement by the Supreme Court, which found that protections for women in the 2010 Equality Act are meant for those born biological...