Author: Kath Murray • Page 6
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Changing the prison rules (again)
On the 5 December 2023 the Scottish Prison Service published its Policy for the Management of Transgender People in Custody. The publication revised both the preceding 2014 policy and...
12th December 2023
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MBM statement on the ruling in the Judicial Review of the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill
For years the Scottish Government has refused to engage with concerns about the interaction between the Gender Recognition Act 2004 and the Equality Act 2010. During the passage of...
8th December 2023
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Letter to the Convener of the Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Following today’s parliamentary evidence sesssion on our petition to require Police Scotland to record sex accurately in cases of rape or attempted rape, we sent the letter below to...
6th December 2023
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Correspondence with the Scottish Police Authority regarding Police Scotland LGBT Allies Toolkit
In October we published an article about the Police Scotland LGBT Allies Toolkit. The article questioned how a scheme that asks officers to ‘evangelise their allyship’ to certain groups...
28th November 2023
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Giving evidence to the Scottish Parliament Public Petitions Committee
We have been asked to give oral evidence to the Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee about our petition on accurately recording the sex of those charged or convicted...
22nd November 2023
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Exposing the contradiction in Scotland’s gender recognition reform project
The judgment from the Inner House of the Court of Session in the case brought by the campaign group For Women Scotland has exposed the contradiction at the heart...
2nd November 2023
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A perfect storm? Police cuts and hate crime
It was recently reported that in response to severe financial pressure Police Scotland is looking to cut 600 officers and 200 staff in the year ahead. The force is...
30th October 2023
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MBM letter to the Scottish Human Rights Commission
It is almost five years since the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) stated that it intended to review its 2014 Gender Identity and Gender Reassignment Policy. This means that the...
24th October 2023
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‘Evangelise your allyship’: police impartiality and the Police Scotland LGBT Allies Toolkit
Introduction On 1 June 2023 Police Scotland posted the following tweet: We submitted a Freedom of Information request for a copy of the Police Scotland LGBT Allies Toolkit, pictured...
20th October 2023
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MBM submission on the Human Rights Bill for Scotland
We recently submitted a response to the Scottish Government consultation on ‘A Human Rights Bill for Scotland’, which closed on 5 October. Our submission is shown below. The Ministerial...
8th October 2023