A Scottish political party treated trans people like the Loch Ness monster. It won’t be the last time.

Then, ahead of this May’s elections, Salmond launched a new party called Alba, the Scots Gaelic name for Scotland. While Alba supported Scottish independence, it also offered a safe harbor for anti-trans activists and so-called “gender critical” feminists, sometimes also known, especially in Britain, as TERFs (transgender exclusionary radical feminists).