Badenoch accuses the SNP government of confusing sex and gender amid trans row

THERE is “serious potential” that Scotland’s public bodies are breaking the law by allowing trans people into sex-single spaces, Kemi Badenoch has said.

- Craig Meighan

Speaking to reporters on her first visit north of the Border since becoming Conservative leader in November, she accused the SNP Government of confusing sex and gender.

Ms Badenoch said ministers have not done “anything, in my view, anywhere close to giving the appropriate guidance” to public organisations.

She said the “concept of gender identity”, as used by the SNP, “is not often established in law”.

And she warned that while the party has “dropped its plans for self-ID, the ideology is still there”.

Her comments in Glasgow came as the Scottish Tories continue to attack the Scottish Government on single-sex spaces, as leader Russell Findlay said women’s rights have been “set on fire” by the SNP.