JK Rowling mocks Sturgeon over heckling

It’s really not Nicola Sturgeon’s week. Fresh from being slapped down by the Supreme Court over her Indyref2 bid, the First Minister suffered the indignity of being heckled last night. Speaking at a Zero Tolerance charity event on tackling male violence against women, Sturgeon could only stand in awkward silence as an unidentified woman took her government to task over its controversial ‘self-ID’ gender reform plans. The heckler told Sturgeon:

“You are allowing paedophiles, sex offenders and rapists to self-ID in Scotland and put women at risk. Women campaigning for women’s rights are not against trans people. Shame on you for letting down vulnerable women in Scotland, not allowed to have their own spaces away from any male.”

And to add insult to injury, JK Rowling weighed in on Twitter. The prominent unionist and Scottish Labour supporter crowed:

Scenes. In spite of all careful precautions, the First Minister has been accidentally exposed to some freedom of speech.