Ruling can't become tool for hatred

AMID the toxic debate around trans rights and gender identity, it is too easy to forget this issue impacts on real lives.

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Almost 20,000 people in Scotland identify as trans or having a trans history, according to the most recent census.

April's UK Supreme Court ruling that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex was a common sense judgment.

The law needs to be based on scientific reality and if you believe women need specific protections in law, it is obvious that you can't have legislation that allows anyone a claim to be one.