SNP minister resigns over gender recognition plans

An SNP curate has resigned implicit Scottish authorities plans to marque it easier for idiosyncratic to alteration their legally-recognised gender.

Ash Regan discontinue arsenic assemblage information minister, saying her conscience would not let her to ballot with the government.

Her resignation came up of the projected changes to the Gender Recognition Act facing its archetypal ballot astatine Holyrood.

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