Nicola Sturgeon has denied she is a 'destroyer of women's rights' after JK Rowling wore a T-shirt bearing the jibe
The first minister said Ms Rowling was entitled to her views but that predatory men"are the risk to women, not trans women".
"This is a statutory process, there are criminal implications for anybody who abuses that - it is not a process without significant conditions attached to it."The bill will stop the need for a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria, as well as reduce the time a person would be required to live in their acquired gender from two years to three months - though there would be a three-month"reflection period".
Ms Sturgeon, speaking ahead of the SNP conference in Aberdeen tomorrow, said the current process is"stigmatising, it's traumatic, it's asking people to effectively prove they are mentally unwell", adding that anyone caught abusing the process outlined in the new bill will be committing"a criminal offence".
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