While the NHS waits, the roads crumble, and actual women face growing risks behind bars, John Swinney and his SNP crew have found a new pet project: spending your taxes to defend the right of biologically male prisoners — who identify as women — to be housed in female prisons. Yes, seriously. This is the hill they’re choosing to die on — and they’re billing the public for the funeral.
🚨 Welcome to the Gender Justice Circus
Let’s be clear: this isn’t about compassion. It’s about political theatre. The SNP isn’t protecting the vulnerable — they’re appeasing the loudest fringe at the expense of real women’s safety. They’ve taken the rare, complex issue of gender identity and turned it into a one-size-fits-all policy disaster, where violent offenders can self-identify into a female prison wing with nothing more than a statement and a straight face.
If that sounds like madness, it’s because it is. Women behind bars — already some of the most vulnerable in society — now have to worry about being housed with male-bodied inmates under the banner of “inclusion.”
🪓 When Inclusion Becomes Intrusion
And you’re paying for it. That courtroom drama? Funded by your paycheque. Those legal appeals? Stamped with your national insurance. Meanwhile, Scottish women’s groups — the ones actually speaking up for prisoners — are dismissed as “bigots” for pointing out what a third-year law student could tell you: rights must coexist, not collide.
You wouldn’t put a fox in the henhouse and call it progressive farming. But that’s exactly what’s happening — and if you dare question it, expect to be labelled as outdated, transphobic, or worse.
This isn’t reform. It’s surrender to ideological fan fiction with real-world consequences.
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If Swinney truly cared about trans inmates, he’d advocate for specialised units — secure, fair, and separate from both men’s and women’s facilities. Something that protects everyone’s dignity and safety. But no — that takes effort, nuance, and guts. Easier to wave a virtue signal and send the invoice to the Scottish taxpayer.
So now women in prison, many of whom are there due to abuse, trauma, and poverty, must also carry the burden of the state’s political cowardice. That’s not progress — it’s cruelty dressed in a rainbow cloak.
🔥 Challenges 🔥
Are you really okay with your taxes funding legal crusades that erase biological reality in one of the few places safety should come first? If not, it’s time to speak — loudly. Comment on the blog, not just on Facebook. This isn’t just a debate. It’s a warning. 🛑⚖️
👇 Let’s hear your take. Do women in prison deserve safety or slogans? Comment, share, and don’t let this get swept under the tartan rug.
The most powerful voices will be featured in the next issue. 🗣️📣
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