Nicola Sturgeon, Courting Populism, And The Trans-Rape Prison Fiasco

<p>The UK is currently in the throes of dealing with a complicated rape case, one causing a Jekyll and Hyde response from the assembled populace. This is all par for the course for the United Kingdom in the troubled 21st Century.</p> <p>On the one hand, we&rsquo;ve caught and imprisoned a rapist, no bad thing for sure.</p> <p>But we&rsquo;ve put her in the wrong prison or perhaps put her in the right prison. Although if you speak to some people we&rsquo;ve put him in the right prison now. We&rsquo;re now at the cutting edge of where the black-and-white clouds of the legal profession meets the rainbow of social engineering.</p> <p>And it&rsquo;s causing a storm.</p> <p>Now before we start talking about&nbsp;<a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nicola-sturgeon-trans-isla-bryson-b2274489.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Isla Bryson</a>&nbsp;there&rsquo;s the matter of how to write this sort of article without getting into perpetual trouble with everyone.</p> <p>Given I generally take a zero-fucks given centrist position on most issues I suspect I&rsquo;ll be in trouble with everyone anyway. Even so, it pays to lay your cards on the table in the first instance.</p> <p>I will be using female pronouns because I&rsquo;m a liberal and I think people can choose their own pronouns. I happen to believe this is true even if they&rsquo;re double rapists &mdash; which Isla Bryson happens to be. It could be she is a manipulative sociopath but I can&rsquo;t prove this &mdash; so with no evidence to the contrary I&rsquo;ll stick to her chosen pronouns.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/lucid-nightmare/nicola-sturgeon-courting-populism-and-the-trans-rape-prison-fiasco-2af13254adcb"><strong>Learn More</strong></a></p>