Nicola Sturgeon, the figurehead of the Scottish independence movement, has dramatically announced that she will resign after eight years as Scotland’s first minister https://t.co/CSjeqLi8le pic.twitter.com/0TrGRA8D6G
— CNN (@CNN) February 15, 2023
They ain’t never let a bitch relax.
She just needs a massage and a bubble bath and they be saying she can’t?
Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon unexpectedly resigned Wednesday following months of outrage over relaxed transgender laws that allowed a rapist to be sent to a female prison.
Sturgeon, 52, said she was stepping down “proud” of having been “the first female and longest-serving” first minister, calling it the “privilege of my life” to have led the country’s devolved government for eight years.
She noted how many will be “upset” by her shock announcement while quipping that others will “cope just fine.”
“For every person in Scotland who loves me, there is another who, let’s say, might not be quite so enthusiastic,” she noted of her critics.
Sturgeon insisted that outrage over her divisive Gender Recognition Reform — which allow anyone over 16 to change gender designation without medical diagnosis — had not been the “final straw.”
The reform was hailed by transgender campaigners as a landmark move. But anger boiled over last month when it emerged a shaven-headed rapist was sent to a female prison after declaring she was a transgender female.
“I have been, and will always be, a feminist,” Sturgeon said of her critics, including “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling who accused her of being a “destroyer of women’s rights” with the laws.
“But I will also stand up for any stigmatized, discriminated against, marginalized and vulnerable group in society,” she said.
Still, she maintained that her “really hard” decision to quit was “not a reaction to short-term pressures” like those transgender reforms.
Instead, she decried the “brutality” of life as a leader, saying it “takes its toll on you.”
This whole “women in charge” thing is totally out of control.
It’s just too stupid.
But of course, as soon as you hand them any enfranchisement, they were going to put themselves in charge of everything.
Women are a plague.
Good Riddance @NicolaSturgeon 👋
Don’t think you can get off the hook that easy though.
You’ve left many Scots injured from this Vaccine.
The Scottish Covid Enquiry is just around the corner. Is the pressure mounting up?
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— Nohj85 (@Nohj_85) February 15, 2023