The Maggie Chapman saga is a new low for the Scottish Parliament
The Scottish Parliament's equalities committee has voted against removing Green MSP Maggie Chapman as deputy convenor following her attack on the Supreme Court.
At a rally in Aberdeen in the wake of the judgment in For Women Scotland Ltd v. The Scottish Ministers, in which Lord Hodge found for a unanimous panel that the term 'sex' in the Equality Act 2010 referred to biological sex, Chapman, an outspoken advocate of gender ideology, decried 'bigotry, prejudice and hatred that we see coming from the Supreme Court'.
This prompted the Faculty of Advocates to call for Chapman's resignation as deputy convenor of the Holyrood committee responsible for equalities legislation, human rights and civil justice. The legal body accused the Green MSP of an 'egregious breach' of the Judiciary and Courts (Scotland) Act 2008, which states that MSPs 'must uphold the continued independence of the judiciary.'
Chapman has been defiant, saying that she appeared at the rally not in her capacity as deputy convenor but as an MSP representing her trans and non-binary constituents.
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