Ruth Maguire

[2] Alongside this role, Maguire was North Ayrshire Youth Champion, chaired the Violence against women partnership and served as Cabinet Member of Finance within the SNP admin.

[3] Maguire is currently a part of committees for Education, Children and Young People and Local Government, Housing and Planning.

In April 2019, claiming it could change what it means to be male and female, Maguire was one of 15 SNP politicians who signed a public letter calling on the Scottish Government to delay reform to the Gender Recognition Act.

[5] Maguire was also the focus of a twitter storm and was called on to resign as convenor of Holyrood's Equalities and Human Rights committee after an exchange between her and SNP MSPs Ash Regan and Gillian Martin was leaked.

In it, Maguire responded to a tweet praising the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's 'positive feminist analysis of trans rights,' with ‘FFS’, agreed that Sturgeon was out of step with the SNP group, and questioned whether the minister in charge of the legislation, Shirley Anne Somerville, could have ignored what 'everyone' said.