Nicola Sturgeon has learned nothing from the trans debacle

Nicola Sturgeon chose to make her first significant intervention on the UK Supreme Court ruling on trans rights.

She insisted she is not challenging the court’s ruling that a woman is defined by her biological sex.

She was responsible for the ill-fated Gender Recognition Reform ( Scotland ) Bill which would have allowed any man to change his legal sex to that of a woman merely by making a declaration.

Iain Macwhirter is a political commentator and author of Disunited Kingdom: How Westminster Won A Referendum But Lost Scotland .

Why doesn't she devote her energies to a more worthy cause, like child poverty or social-care reform? Whatever else, we have clearly not heard the last of Nicola Sturgeon and her dogged pursuit of this most lost of lost causes.