Obvious but she wouldn't see it

NICOLA Sturgeon must flinch every time she sees the now infamous pictures of Isla Bryson arriving for sentencing at the High Court in Glasgow in 2023.

- CHRIS MCCALL DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR

Despite having not legally changed gender, Scottish Prison Service (SPS) guidance at the time stated that trans criminals should be sent to the jail that matched their self-identified gender they were living in prior to conviction.

Thus, a man who committed rape and was sentenced to eight years behind bars was initially sent to Cornton Vale and not Barlinnie.

Suddenly, the inherent risks of gender self-ID were laid bare for all to see.

Sturgeon and her many followers have never been able to come up with a satisfactory explanation since.