Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s former First Minister, is calling out what she sees as a major misunderstanding of a recent UK Supreme Court ruling on the legal definition of a woman. Speaking over the weekend at the How the Light Gets In festival in Hay-on-Wye, Sturgeon said the ruling has been “massively misinterpreted,” and she’s standing firm in her support of the trans community.
“I will always be an ally of the trans community,” she said at the event, according to The Sunday Times. While she acknowledged the Supreme Court’s decision sets out what the law currently is, she made it clear that doesn’t mean lawmakers can’t or shouldn’t work to change it. “It’s the job of politicians to decide what the law should be or has to be,” she said.
