We’ve attended multiple Scottish election hustings across the country. Most recently: Coatbridge, Motherwell, and the EIS hustings in Glasgow.

Across events, candidates were asked about sex-based rights, the Supreme Court ruling, and how this should apply in schools, workplaces and public services.

The answers were very different.

Here’s what candidates are saying about sex-based rights 👇 Some were clear - defining sex as “adult human female” and supporting single-sex spaces across education, sport and public services. They emphasised the need for legal clarity following the Supreme Court ruling.

Some candidates accepted the ruling but called for “flexibility”, “complexity”, or case-by-case approaches, with one even describing it as a “step backwards”.

This sort of in-between isn’t going to work. Men cannot be women - and when you give that inch, you are accepting this ideology which is an odd stance for people who want to lead a country.

Women and girls’ safety depends on reality. The real step backwards is women having to fight for their rights at all.

NHS 'failing women and girls' and has 'appalling culture of medical misogyny', health secretary says news.sky.com/story/nhs-fail…

A relaunch of England’s Women’s Health Strategy aims to tackle what has been described as “medical misogyny” in the NHS.

The plan focuses on addressing concerns that women are being failed by the system, with measures including faster diagnoses, improved pain management, and linking funding to patient feedback.

Wes Streeting says women have been “ignored, gaslit, humiliated and disrespected” by the system. You could argue he is describing the effects on women caused by “gender identity” policies. 🧵 2/ When women are treated by male staff who pretend they are female, we would argue this can be experienced as humiliating and disrespectful.

When female nurses such as Sandie Peggie raise concerns about sharing changing rooms with male colleagues who say they are women and face disciplinary action, we would describe this as dismissive and unjust - in other words, gaslighting.