UK 'nuclear option' over Scotland's gender bill is not a party-political bid for war

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : The Equality Act already makes separate provisions to facilitate "positive action" in recruitment or elsewhere.
46% : Others argued that given that Lady Haldane, the judge in question, had accepted in her verdict that many parts of legislation when "read fairly" refer to biological sex, it would be perverse to believe that the single-sex exemptions in the Equality Act do not refer to biological sex.
45% : But other commentators thought precisely the opposite: that Haldane's judgment must be read as eliminating any distinction to biological sex within the Equality Act.
44% : Some lawyers strongly agreed that this was the case, arguing that unless you accept that some parts of the Equality Act 2010 are referring specifically to your biological sex, they become essentially nonsensical.
43% : Yesterday I wrote that the Court of Session's Outer House had ruled in December there was no distinction between your biological sex and gender other than the legal exemptions in the Equality Act and elsewhere.

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