Anti-Trans Lobby Demands Scotland Reinstate Gender Policing in Public Bathrooms

BREAKING: Anti-Trans Lobby Gives Scotland 14 Days to Rebuild Gender Apartheid, Or Else

In today’s edition of “Gender Criticals Try Legal Ultimatums”, the group Sex Matters — not to be confused with actual sex education or, say, facts — has sent the Scottish government a letter demanding it comply with the UK Supreme Court’s ruling on “biological sex.” Because nothing screams women’s liberation like obsessing over someone’s genitals in a public loo.

They’ve generously given ministers 14 days to fall in line before unleashing the legal equivalent of a tantrum, insisting that every public body in Scotland immediately implement policies based on “biological sex.” You know — that retro concept where what’s in your trousers defines your entire social worth.

Chief executive Maya Forstater (yes, that one) wants the Scottish government to take “immediate action” to enforce strict single-sex toilets and changing rooms. Apparently, this is what feminism looks like in 2025: door policies for bathrooms and measuring womanhood by biology textbooks from 1957.

The Scottish government, for its part, has said it accepts the Supreme Court ruling and is waiting for official guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Reasonable, right? Not if you’re Sex Matters, who have decided “consulting experts” is just code for “dragging your feet.”

Let’s rewind. The Supreme Court recently ruled that trans people with a Gender Recognition Certificate don’t count as women for the purposes of certain equality laws in Scotland — a deeply chilling blow to legal recognition and dignity for trans people. But instead of a measured rollout of guidance, Sex Matters wants a full-speed crackdown.

They’re demanding that the Scottish government not only rewrite guidance now, but also issue a public edict commanding every public body in Scotland to exclude trans women from women’s spaces — hospitals, shops, gyms, changing rooms, you name it. You know, all those terrifying places where apparently the presence of a trans person is the real emergency.

EHRC, not exactly known lately for radical inclusivity, has published some interim guidance that already restricts trans women from women’s spaces in key services. But don’t worry — Sex Matters insists this isn’t just “guidance,” it's a mandate, and anyone not acting on it is practically a criminal in their eyes.

Oh, and if any government materials so much as mention trans people accessing single-sex spaces? Sex Matters says suspend them immediately. Because nothing says women’s rights like legally erasing trans people from public life.

In an interview with BBC Radio’s Good Morning Scotland, Forstater accused the Scottish government of “passing the buck” and warned of the horror of “men in women’s toilets” — because in her worldview, every trans woman is apparently a man in disguise and every changing room a battleground.

Meanwhile, Social Justice Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville calmly explained that, yes, the government is doing actual work: reviewing policy, consulting legal frameworks, and generally behaving like adults. But nuance doesn’t trend on Twitter, and Sex Matters wants panic, not process.

Scottish Conservatives, naturally, couldn’t miss the opportunity to pile on. Shadow Equalities Minister Tess White claimed the government is “pandering to gender ideologues” — as if basic human dignity is some niche fad. She says this is all “common sense.” Ah yes, common sense — the favoured term for regressive fear-mongering since time immemorial.

Let’s be clear: what’s happening here isn’t about protecting women. It’s about excluding trans people — particularly trans women — from public life. From toilets. From hospitals. From society. All under the smug guise of “clarity” and “lawfulness.”

Former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon summed it up best: the ruling could make life for trans people “almost unliveable.” And groups like Sex Matters seem absolutely fine with that — as long as their vision of gender gets enforced, no matter who gets harmed along the way.

But hey, give it 14 days. Maybe Scotland will fold to the bullies. Or maybe, just maybe, it’ll remember what actual equality looks like — and who it should be standing up for.