Nicola Sturgeon: Some gender Bill opponents using women’s rights to ‘cloak’ transphobia

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said there were gender Bill opponents using women’s rights to conceal their transphobia

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Some opponents of gender recognition reform are using women’s rights as a “cloak of acceptability” for transphobia, Nicola Sturgeon has claimed.

But the First Minister stressed not all opponents of her Government’s Gender Recognition Reform Bill hold this view.