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Good morning, Dr Cass. I want to pick up on a couple of areas that have already been discussed. The first is about the cohort of patients. The data shows a huge and quick increase in birth-registered females, the majority of whom are same-sex attracted. That is a very different cohort from the one that was considered in the earlier studies. Also, the new cohort’s presentation is much more complex. You have suggested that care should routinely include, for instance, screening for neurodevelopmental conditions. Will you tell us a little bit more about the change in the cohort, the extent to which treatments had been based on the previous one, and the potential risks around that?

Thank you. I have a question on detransitioners, if I may.

The minister talked about one United Kingdom, but it is Scotland that produces 90 per cent of the oil and gas for the UK, and it is Scotland that will be left with no refinery. Would the UK Government be so relaxed about the situation if the boot were on the other foot and England had no capacity to refine oil?

[Inaudible.]—refinery when it produces 90 per cent—

Can I follow up on that, convener?

Good morning. I want to follow on from Gordon MacDonald’s question. The figures for 2022-23 show that the revenue from Scotland’s oil and gas activity was £10.6 billion, which was a record amount. That £10.6 billion from Scotland’s oil and gas activity flowed into the UK Treasury. It has been reported that it would take an investment in Grangemouth of about £80 million to not only extend its life but make it profitable. That, ultimately, is what we are discussing this morning. Does the UK Government not understand that, in that context, the people of Scotland would reasonably expect a share of the revenue that comes from oil and gas to be invested back into Scotland’s infrastructure?

Good afternoon to the panel members. I would like to pick up on Ms Medhurst’s response to Sharon Dowey earlier, in which she made comments along the lines of women prisoners being kind and tolerant. I consider that to be irrelevant to the policy making with regard to women prisoners’ safety. Why does the policy prioritise the feelings of trans-identified males over the safety of women prisoners?

It does do that.

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It has taken five years to develop the revised policy. The revision was to correct a serious misjudgment, in that the previous policy did not consider the impact on women. That has been admitted. The Scottish Government and the SPS have taken five years to make the same mistake again—if we accept from the conversation that we have just had that they are not undertaking to consider fully the impact on women and their safety from psychological trauma and physical trauma, for example. Why, five years later, have we got to this position, where it seems that the Scottish Government is making the same mistake again?