UK: Misogyny bill is set for the ‘woke’ scrapheap

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'How can we legislate to criminalise misogyny when we can’t even agree what a woman is?” So said one SNP backbench MSP, commenting on The Times’story that Nicola Sturgeon’s proposed bill outlawing hatred of women has been shelved. It is destined for the scrapheap of “woke” legislation, we are told. Yet the irony is that it is another of Sturgeon’s quintessentially woke enthusiasms that has scuppered it.

The misogyny bill has been kicking around St Andrew’s House since March 2022 when St Nicola’s favourite barrister, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws KC, proposed imprisoning men for up to seven years for “stirring up hatred” against women. However, Humza Yousaf, following his boss, said that “of course” transgender women would be protected by the legislation, as well as “cis” women.

Many women loathe that appellation and were furious at the thought that natal men could be protected from abuse by other men. Imagine how the trans doctor Beth Uptonmight have deployed a misogyny law against the nurse, Sandie Peggie, in that stushie over changing rooms in a Kirkcaldy hospital? Isla Bryson might have accused Sturgeon of misogynistic hate crime for sending him — sorry, her — to a male prison.'