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The BBC Question Time panel for the broadcast from Glasgow on Thursday February 2

MSP to challenge BBC over controversial Question Time trans rights debate
AN SNP MSP has said he will challenge the BBC over the trans rights debate on Thursday’s Question Time after it was accused of broadcasting “vile hate speech”.

Screenshot of gender critical activist Kellie-Jay Keen, who calls herself Posie Parker

Who is Posie Parker? The controversial anti-trans activist heading to Scotland

BBC Question Time host Fiona Bruce is facing questions after a statement about a trans prisoner in Scotland

EXCLUSIVE Question Time's Fiona Bruce in unfounded claim about Scottish trans prisoner

Josh Henderson was among the audience members on Question Time from Glasgow

COMMENT I was in the audience for Question Time – the atmosphere was poisonous

Rumours of students identifying as cats have been rife from the US to Scotland

REAL SCOTTISH POLITICS Why 'Scottish kids identifying as cats' is much more than a harmless rumour

Nicola Sturgeon confirmed the Scottish Prison Service decision during FMQs

FMQs round-up Trans rapist will not be jailed in Scotland's women's prison, Sturgeon confirms

A rally for trans rights and against the UK Government's use of Section 35. Photo by Colin Mearns

COMMENT Gender reform block shows independence is about liberty and equality

Scottish Secretary Alister Jack during a visit to Kilmarnock's 163-year-old Palace Theatre

LETTERS Let’s try to be clear on what Tories think ‘good’ law means

Hundreds joined the protest at Buchanan Street's Royal Concert Hall steps

MPs join hundreds protesting against gender bill block in Glasgow

Gender reform in Scotland has been unilaterally blocked by Alister Jack, the Scottish Secretary

LETTERS Do those opposed to gender reforms think of families like mine?

The row over gender reform has often featured talk of access to single-sex spaces

Letters Women are more likely to be raped by Met Police officers than trans people

'If they get away with overruling the Scottish Parliament this time, who knows what else they will do'

COMMENT Mhairi Black: UK is spitting directly in the face of devolution process

People take part in a demonstration for trans rights outside the UK Government Office at Queen Elizabeth House in Edinburgh.

COMMENT Joanna Cherry: Gender bill might well have faced legal challenge in an indy Scotland

Alister Jack will not face scrutiny from MSPs in Holyrood over his decision to block gender reform legislation

Alister Jack branded 'absolute disgrace' for snubbing Holyrood committee invite

Nicola Sturgeon said the blocking of gender reform legislation has ushered in a 'new and dangerous' phase of devolution

Gender reform block ushers in ‘new and dangerous’ phase of devolution, says FM

The Secretary of State for Scotland makes a statement on the exercise of section 35 of the Scotland Act

COMMENT Section 35 order is not anti-democratic but the SNP have been for some time

Cabaret Against The Hate Speech arranged a counter-protest outside the Scottish Parliament to clash with a gender critical demonstration

EXCLUSIVE Counter-protest planned as controversial anti-trans group heads to Scotland

The EFA said the UK should avoid using its powers to 'create conflict' with devolved parliaments

European parties condemn UK's 'direct attack' on Scotland's devolution

Rishi Sunak's government has triggered a major constitutional row with Nicola Sturgeon and her ministers

RECAP: All the reaction as UK blocks Scottish bill in unprecedented move

Shona Robison during the Stage 3 debate on gender reform legislation

COMMENT Blocking gender reform spells the end of devolution - The REAL Scottish Politics

Nicola Sturgeon has condemned the UK Government's blocking of gender reform legislation as a

Nicola Sturgeon reacts as UK blocks Scottish gender reform bill

Transgender lives – and those of others – are on the front line of the current culture war

COMMENT Steph Paton: It's hypocrisy to back both Yes and the Tories blocking gender reform

Police say that 'no crimes' were recorded at the anti-gender reform protest outside the Scottish Parliament yesterday

EXCLUSIVE Police respond to calls to investigate gender reform protest at Scottish Parliament

Protesters were campaigning against various issues, from sex education in schools to the new gender reform bill

Patrick Harvie calls on police to investigate 'vile abuse' at Holyrood protest

Supporters of the Scottish Family Party take part in an Anti Gender Reform Bill demonstration

Rishi Sunak waiting on 'final advice' over whether to block gender reform in Scotland

A member of the Unionist Clubs Scotland at the anti-gender reform protest outside the Scottish Parliament

EXCLUSIVE Union flags and misinformation: What happened outside the Scottish Parliament today

A member of the Scottish Family Party (left) speaks with a supporter of the Gender Recognition Reform Bill (Scotland) during a protest outside the Scottish Parliament

EXCLUSIVE Expert brands UK threat to block gender reform ‘more about culture wars' than law

Emma Roddick said the survey would

Inverness primary school backed by MSP after LGBT survey uproar

The Scottish Government could face legal challenges in its planned bid to ban conversion therapy

Scottish Government warned of legal challenge to conversion therapy ban

The Scottish Greens have called on lawmakers to ban conversion therapy

MSPs urged to make 2023 the year conversion therapy is banned

Scottish Tory MSP for North East Scotland Douglas Lumsden

SNP MSP accuses Tory of flouting Holyrood rules to film 'flasher' GRR protest

Tory MP Michael Fabricant said opposing gender reform could be an 'own goal for Unionists'

MP says UK Tories opposing gender reform may 'help Scotland get independence'

A former advisor to Boris Johnson is reportedly behind Rishi Sunak's threat to block gender reform legislation becoming law in Scotland

Architect of Johnson's 'war on woke' allegedly behind UK plans to block gender bill

Joanna Cherry MP outside the Scottish Parliament during a No to Self-ID protest on December 21

COMMENT Joanna Cherry: I’m no serial rebel but I simply couldn't support gender reform bill

The Scottish Parliament debated the final stage amendments of the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill for more than twenty-four hours

COMMENT Patrick Harvie: Tory display during gender debate was worse than ‘Keep the Clause’

The EU has welcomed the passing of gender recognition reform legislation in Scotland

Council of Europe and UN welcome passing of gender reform bill in Scottish Parliament

Activists said they felt

EXCLUSIVE 'I'm so relieved': Campaigners react as MSPs vote through gender reform

Supporters of the Gender Recognition Reform Bill outside the Scottish Parliament

Gender recognition reform PASSES in Holyrood after three-day debate

The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh

Gender reform debate suspended as protester says she is a 'duck'

Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross during First Minister's Questions at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. Picture date: Thursday November 10, 2022.

EXCLUSIVE ‘I’ll stay all f**** night’: MSPs angered by Tory delay 's*housery'

Protesters in favour of Gender Recognition Reform outside Holyrood

EXCLUSIVE This was the mood among activists on day two of the gender reform debate

Douglas Ross was warned he was 'skirting' towards contempt of Parliament and was instructed to sit down

Douglas Ross scolded for 'skirting close to contempt of Parliament'

Ryan McLeod (centre right) at the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday

EXCLUSIVE 'I'm used to being overlooked': Trans men speak out on gender reform debate

Members of the Scottish Family Party protest alongside supporters of the Gender Recognition Reform Bill (Scotland) outside the Scottish Parliament

COMMENT It will take lots of work to revive the image of Scotland as a progressive utopia

Annabelle Ewing had to suspend proceedings after members of the public shouted 'shame' at MSPs

Protest in public gallery causes significant delay to final gender reform debate

MSPs are expected to be in the Chamber for many hours today

Tories accused of 'disrupting' proceedings as gender reform debate starts

Madrigal-Borloz said some people were using the debate around gender reform in Scotland as a

Gender debate used as ‘proxy’ for transgender discrimination, UN expert tells MSPs

The end is in sight for the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill but its critics are more vocal than ever

COMMENT I’ll take nothing for granted ahead of final gender reform vote

The report of Dunja Mijatovic, Council of Europe commissioner for human rights,concluded that self-id is best practice and that some UK politicians were using the issue to drag trans people into a wider ‘culture war’

SPECIAL REPORT Scottish gender reform is ‘best practice’, European commissioner report concludes

Greta Thunberg backed protesters who blocked a screening of the film 'Adult Human Female' at Edinburgh University

Greta Thunberg reaches out to Edinburgh students who blocked film screening

The university resisted calls from some staff and students to cancel the film screening

Students block 'Adult Human Female' film screening at Edinburgh University

Beira’s Place in Edinburgh will offer free counselling from an all-female team of professional staff

COMMENT JK Rowling’s extra support for women in Edinburgh is welcome

The University said it is 'committed' to freedom of expression and is allowing the screening to go ahead

Edinburgh University accused of ‘cavalier attitude’ towards transphobia concerns

Joe Lycett accused Keir Starmer of 'butchering' the description of his Qatar cash shredder stunt

Joe Lycett accuses Keir Starmer of 'butchering' Beckham stunt description