Will the row over trans prisoners turn out to be a blip, or a longer-running sore for Nicola Sturgeon?
Meanwhile some allies of the first minister have suggested that rebels should leave the party if they can't get on board.
Ms Sturgeon herself has tried to steer a less confrontational route through the melee, saying that parties should always be willing to deal with policy differences as a matter of "internal party democracy".All of this is significant because the Scottish government is unable to simply move on from the gender debate. Indeed it is gearing up for a constitutional clash with the UK government over it, with Ms Sturgeon promising a legal challenge to the blocking of the Holyrood bill.
It all feeds into the same debate about how easy it should be for people to change gender, about safeguards in the system and the question of single-sex spaces and services. That means ministers need to be very careful to close that issue off before they move to challenge the UK government's blockade on the Holyrood legislation.
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