Anyone continuing to labour under the misapprehension that the Scottish Green party is primarily concerned with matters environmental should stop doing so, immediately. Yes, the Greens have long attracted those who hold standard left-wing views on issues from the economy to Palestine to gender ideology – but the raison d’être was always saving the planet, wasn’t it? No longer. Today, the Scottish Green party is, first and foremost, a trans rights organisation. Interviewed by Martin Geissler for a BBC Scotland Scotcast episode this week, recently-elected party co-leaders Ross Greer and Gillian Mackay made this abundantly clear. In fact, anybody who does not accept that trans women are women seems to have no place in their party.
The election, last month, of 31-year-old Greer and 34-year-