What’s Current: SNP Gender Recognition Act critic barred from standing as MSP

Caroline McAllister, an SNP councillor and convener of the party’s Women’s Pledge group.
  • Women’s Pledge leader Caroline McAllister has been barred from standing as a MSP, leading some to speculate that her criticism of the Gender Recognition Act has stalled her political career.
  • The Supreme Court rules the RCMP pension plan discriminates against women and violates the Canadian Charter for Rights and Freedoms. The ruling states women who enrolled in the RCMP’s job-sharing programme while raising young children were unfairly denied the chance to bolster their pensions.
  • Finland Prime Minister Sanna Marin is receiving “enormous” backlash for posing for a magazine in a blazer with no shirt underneath, sparking debate about sexism in Finland.
  • The Independent reports thousands of Xinjiang women are being targeted in a Chinese campaign to assimilate ethnic minorities through alleged forced abortions, sterilisations, mass internment, and family separations.
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