Scotland's War on Women

A New Law Makes It a Crime to Accurately Describe Biological Sex

Scotland’s Hate Crime and Public Order Act, which went into effect today, criminalizes “stirring up hatred" on the basis of disability, age, religion, race, sexual orientation, and transgender identity.

What is missing from the protected classes?

Women.

The Scottish Parliament had earlier voted down an amendment to add sex to the protected groups.

That means the law, which was the brainchild in 2021 of Humza Yousaf, Scotland’s First Minister, protects men who claim they identify as women. Someone who calls one of those self-identifying trans men by the pronouns he or him, could face prosecution leading to a hefty fine and a prison term of up to seven years. Or at least that appears to be what the law provides. Even some of its supporters admitted its language was ambiguous and that it threatened to encourage a tsunami of complaints to the police as well as having a chilling effect on free speech. Yousaf tried downplaying concerns about the law, claiming that, “Unless your behavior is…