One of Nicola Sturgeon’s coalition ministers has been branded ‘grossly offensive’ after comparing women who disagree with her gender reforms to ‘racists & anti-semites’.
Lorna Slater, 46, who was given a ministerial post under Ms Sturgeon’s SNP’s deal with the environmental political group, made the remarks in a blast at the BBC.
Slater declared: ‘The BBC only recently stopped putting on climate deniers because they required balance.
‘We wouldn’t put balance on the question of racism or anti-Semitism, but we allow this fictional notion of balance when it comes to anti-trans. The whole thing is disgusting.
‘The Scottish Government is in the right place, absolutely. It’s openly supportive of trans rights.’
Lorna Slater, 46, spoke out after feminists criticised new sex change legislation in Scotland
Slater added the Greens were standing some trans candidates for local election and she was ‘genuinely afraid for their safety’.
She added she believed people who were against the new law had been secretly funded by American right-wing groups.
Smith added: ‘It is ironic she likens women’s rights activists to anti-Semites, racists and climate-change deniers, when some might think her intemperate, incendiary, fact-free rant bears all the hall marks of extremist bigotry as well as a denial of the fundamentals of biological science.
She made the remarks in a blast at the BBC over the corporations inclusion of critics of the law
‘Such bullying hectoring should concern any parliamentarian who wants an open, thorough examination of legislation.’
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