Author: Kath Murray • Page 3
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How the Scottish Human Rights Commission forgot about women in prison
Introduction The Scottish Human Rights Commission has an established record of supporting gender self-identification principles in policy and law. Most notably, it supported reform of the Gender Recognition Act...
4th April 2025
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Pangender terrorists and policy capture
‘At the risk of stating the obvious, it is hard to understand what possible operational value there is in knowing that a Registered Sex Offender or a person convicted...
24th March 2025
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MBM submission to the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee inquiry into the operation of the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) in Scotland
Introduction On 7 February 2025 the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice (EHRCJ) Committee issued a three-week Call for Views on Scottish Government proposals to amend the Scottish-specific duties...
3rd March 2025
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Police Scotland: Wasting parliamentary time?
Introduction This blog charts the extraordinary behaviour of Police Scotland over the past six years, in response to a simple question: could a rapist ever be recorded as a...
3rd March 2025
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Police Scotland review of sex and gender: what’s the story?
Introduction This blog traces how Police Scotland appears to be quietly retreating from a promise made to the Scottish Police Authority (SPA), and indirectly, through the SPA, to the...
16th January 2025
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MBM response to the Consultation on the EHRC Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations
Summary Our response to the EHRC consultation on its revised draft Statutory Code of Practice (CoP) for service providers is shown below. We note that the draft CoP appears to...
4th January 2025
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For Women Scotland vs the Scottish Ministers: making the arguments transparent
Introduction Next week the case of For Women Scotland vs the Scottish Ministers will be heard in the UK Supreme Court. It will decide the definitions of ‘sex’, ‘woman’...
21st November 2024
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The extra genders
Introduction In October 2024, the Scottish Government’s Chief Statistician published a Coding Framework, providing public bodies with guidance on how to collate any write-in responses to survey questions on...
5th November 2024
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The wrong statistics
Introduction Against a backdrop on ongoing controversy, on 26 September the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) Board questioned the Chief Constable about Police Scotland’s policy on recording the sex of offenders. As detailed...
28th October 2024