Here’s the text of yesterday’s BBC live post by David Wallace Lockhart, in case it ceases to be valid shortly:
Scottish Labour offers chat with JK Rowling to win back support
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has told BBC Scotland News that he’s ‘more than happy’ to have a conversation with Harry Potter author JK Rowling in order to try and convince her to support the Labour party.
Sarwar says he has ‘a lot of respect for’ the Harry Potter author and adds that he’s ‘proud’ of the backing she’s previously given Labour.
Asked why he has voted for legislation in Scotland aimed at making it easier for someone to change their legally-recognised sex, the Scottish Labour leader says he did so after the SNP gave a ‘cast iron guarantee’ it wouldn’t negatively impact the UK-wide Equality Act.
He adds that has proved not to be the case and says it’s a ‘tragedy’ trans people now don’t feel more protected and women don’t feel more reassured.
The Glasgow MSP has said he wants a ‘grown up approach’ that removes the ‘indignity’ of the process of changing sex, but still protects single sex spaces ‘based on biological sex’.
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