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Nicola Sturgeon said rapist Isla Bryson is “a biological male” and admitted she should have been “much more straightforward” when questioned at the time. She said anyone committing “the most heinous male crime against women” forfeits the right to choose their gender, adding the debate over self-ID had “lost all sense of rationality”. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00You became unstuck over the questions about the transgender prisoner, the rapist, Isla Bryson.
00:07Why couldn't you answer that question?
00:09I think I was caught up in the...
00:12Will you answer it now, whether you believe Isla Bryson was a man?
00:15Isla Bryson identified as a woman.
00:16I think what I would say now is anybody who commits the most heinous male crime against women
00:23probably forfeits the right to be, you know, the gender of their choice.
00:27They forfeit to be the gender of their choice?
00:30Well, sorry, that's...
00:31That's quite... I mean, this actually goes to the heart of the difficulty around this.
00:35That probably was not the best phrase to use, but they forfeit their right to be the gender of their choice.
00:40Well, if you rape a woman, then I think you probably...
00:42The debate about whether they should be called a woman or not, probably.
00:45Well, why don't you simply say that Isla Bryson is a biological male?
00:51They are a biological male, but that's about whether it gets back into the self-ID thing.
00:56I should have been much more straightforward.
00:58I wasn't.
01:00But that's because of the debate.
01:02We'd lost all sense of rationality in this debate.
01:05I'm partly responsible for that.

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