DIVISIONS amongst the Labour Party are beginning to show after the UK Government decided to issue a Section 35 order and block gender reform legislation which was overwhelmingly passed by the Scottish Parliament.
While a majority of Scottish Labour MSPs supported the bill in Holyrood, Keir Starmer recently stated that he had “concerns” about allowing 16-year-olds to legally change their gender – an explicit provision of the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill passed by MSPs, which extends applications for Gender Recognition Certificates to 16 and 17-year-olds.
Labour MSP Monica Lennon has said she is “very disappointed” at Starmer’s comments and claimed he was “undermining” Scottish Labour.
