This is not a column about transgenderism. It is about something larger than that. For although the increasingly heated, bitter and frankly unresolvable trans issue will not disappear anytime soon, the manner in which Nicola Sturgeon and the Scottish government have handled this issue tells us something important. So this is a column about how the Scottish government thinks, the way it develops policy, and then the way it attempts to persuade voters this policy is appropriate, proportionate and wise. Last week, the government introduced new guidance to schools on how teachers and other interested parties should handle the delicate issue of trans children or, more often and more accurately, children who think they might be trans but do not in fact know who or

Source: The Times August 16, 2021 15:56 UTC