Despite denouncing the Supreme Court judgment that backed the biological definition of a woman, Green MSP Maggie Chapman has bafflingly managed to survive an attempt to remove her from her role as Deputy Convener of the Equalities Committee in the Scottish parliament. It seems the eco-activists can get away with anything these days…
When Chapman took to the streets of Aberdeen some weeks ago to fume about the ‘bigotry, prejudice and hatred that we see coming from the Supreme Court’, women’s rights campaigners, fellow politicians and legal experts were quick to hit out at her remarks. Not only does she hold a leadership position in Holyrood’s equalities committee (a group that has been urged to interact with For Women Scot in the wake of the judgment) but, under the Judiciary and Courts Act, MSPs must uphold the independence of the judiciary – which the eco-zealot quite demonstrably failed to do. Scottish Tory MSP Tess White last week tabled
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