Kirk fiasco shows SNP must stop dragging its feet on single-sex spaces
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A Church of Scotland community centre in Fife might seem an improbable location for a fresh controversy over single-sex spaces but it is a wholly apposite, and indeed typical, one.
A mother objected to biological males using the female toilets at the venue while her daughter's drama class was using the centre at the same time.
Initial assurances that this would be attended to were then supplanted by fresh 'guidance' from the Kirk's 'safeguarding department' that toilets were not necessarily to be considered single-sex at all. The Kirk has now returned to its first position.
The Church of Scotland may be forgiven its confusion. It is merely following a baleful example set by the Scottish government, which insists it is not yet in a position to implement the law on single-sex spaces as clarified by the Supreme Court in the case of For Women Scotland vs Scottish ministers.
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