Women's rights activists are like ANTI-SEMITES, says Scottish minister: Fury over Lorna Slater's 'grossly offensive' comparison between feminists fighting trans rights laws to racists
Lorna Slater is a minister in Nicola Sturgeon's government in Green-SNP deal
- Ms Slater, 46, spoke out after feminists criticised new sex change legislation
- She asked why the BBC was allowing voices against the law to be heard
- Slater said: 'We wouldn't put balance on the question of racism or anti-Semitism'
- But women campaigners said some may feel her remarks were extremist bigotry'
One of Nicola Sturgeon's coalition ministers has been branded 'grossly offensive' after comparing feminists worried about new transgender laws to racists or anti-Semites.
Lorna Slater, 46, who was given a ministerial post under Ms Sturgeon's SNP's deal with the environmental political group, made the remarks in a blast at the BBC.
She railed against the corporation over its inclusion of voices who oppose new legislation in Scotland which allow anyone over 16 change their legal sex by self-identification only.
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