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Dan Sanderson
@DSanderson_85
Scottish Political Editor @thetimes [email protected]
Edinburgh, Scotland
thetimes.com/uk/scotland
Born August 26
Joined December 2011
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    Dan Sanderson
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    Dec 13, 2022
    🚨Breaking: ScotGov wins court case against feminist campaigners over whether people can legally change sex. Court of Session rules that "sex is not limited to biological or birth sex" and that gender recognition certificate do alter a person's sex in the eyes of the law.
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    Dan Sanderson
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    Feb 18, 2022
    An attempt by SNP ministers to ‘redefine the meaning of women’ to include people born male has been ruled unlawful by Scottish courts. Appeal by @ForwomenScot over the definition of women in 2018 legislation is upheld at the Court of Session.
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    SNP loses bid to ‘redefine meaning of women’ to include trans people on public boards
    From telegraph.co.uk
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    Dan Sanderson
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    Apr 23, 2025
    Scottish schools must have single-sex toilets for boys and girls, judge declares. Legal case brought by parents in Scottish Borders hailed as "first of many" that will uphold rights of women and girls following last week's Supreme Court ruling.
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    Judge rules Scottish schools must provide single-sex lavatories
    Parents win legal fight after head teacher dismissed concerns over only gender-neutral facilities
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    Dan Sanderson
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    Feb 7, 2023
    A transgender butcher who publicly backed Nicola Sturgeon's self-ID law has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of 11-year-old girl. The child was found "safe and well" more than a day after she went missing in the Scottish borders.
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    Scottish police defy Nicola Sturgeon over trans self-ID law
    From telegraph.co.uk
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    Dan Sanderson
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    Nov 17, 2022
    Expulsion of woman from Holyrood transgender debate for wearing suffragette colours sparks global boom in feminist scarf sales #Scarfgate
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    Dan Sanderson
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    Feb 16, 2025
    Nurse who challenged trans doctor in female changing rooms threatened with the sack, in part for "misgendering" her colleague. Sandie Peggie called to a conduct hearing on Friday, which the NHS has warned her may lead to dismissal after 30-yr career.
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    Nurse who challenged trans NHS doctor threatened with sack after ‘misgendering’
    From telegraph.co.uk
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    Dan Sanderson
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    Feb 19, 2025
    Health Secretary Neil Gray, on a visit to Dunfermline, declines to offer backing to local nurse Sandie Peggie, who faces sack after “misgendering” trans doctor. He goes on to express “full confidence” in NHS Fife’s leadership.
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    Dan Sanderson
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    Feb 18, 2021
    SNP ministers accused of incompetence after they book 300 quarantine hotel rooms at taxpayers' expense - at an airport with no international flights
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    SNP ministers book 300 quarantine hotel rooms at airport with no international flights
    From telegraph.co.uk
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    Dan Sanderson
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    Jun 15, 2022
    Scottish NHS publishes document which claims eunuch is a gender identity and directs patients to fetish website with graphic descriptions of sexual abuse and castration of children. The document also directed readers to instructions for self-mutilation.
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    ‘Eunuch’ should be a gender, according to Scottish NHS
    From telegraph.co.uk
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    Dan Sanderson
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    Feb 9, 2021
    The Spectator magazine is taking action in the High Court in Edinburgh on Thursday, seeking a ruling that would put the legality of publishing documents about the Salmond affair - which have been censored by the Holyrood inquiry - beyond doubt
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    Whitewash fears over Salmond inquiry after pro-independence MSPs block release of Sturgeon dossier
    From telegraph.co.uk
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    Dan Sanderson
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    Sep 22, 2022
    Scottish Rugby under fire over rules that allow trans women to play in full-contact female matches - despite evidence it is unsafe Policy, under review, says women must not be told about trans opponents. 2 trans women players "actively involved" at clubs
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    Transgender players in Scottish rugby 'putting females at risk'
    From telegraph.co.uk
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    Dan Sanderson
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    Aug 17, 2022
    Liz Truss claims she will ensure women have a right to female-only spaces, defined by their biological sex, "across the UK" if she becomes Prime Minister.
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    Dan Sanderson
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    Apr 16, 2023
    Nicola Sturgeon to stay away from Holyrood this week amid speculation she is preparing to quit politics. One SNP insider said it was hard to see why Sturgeon would remain as an MSP as “her whole reputation now is in tatters.”
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    Nicola Sturgeon under growing pressure to quit SNP
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    Dan Sanderson
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    Jun 30, 2022
    Biological sex is a "falsehood" invented by the medical establishment "to reinforce white supremacy and gender oppression", civil servants in Nicola Sturgeon's government are told.
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    Scottish civil servants warned of ‘farts’ in the workplace
    From telegraph.co.uk