Author: Kath Murray • Page 6
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Gender recognition reform in an international context
This week the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee will take evidence from a number of witnesses who are likely to assert that international developments mean Scotland should...
20th June 2022
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Gender recognition reform and data collection
At the next evidence session on the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill (7 June) the Scottish Parliament’s Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice (EHRCJ) Committee will take evidence from...
5th June 2022
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Who is giving evidence to the Committee on gender recognition reform?
The Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee is currently conducting its Stage 1 examination of the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland ) Bill. Written submisisons The call for written...
2nd June 2022
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Joint statement by MBM, Keep Prisons Single Sex, LGB Alliance and For Women Scotland
Gender reconition reform: evidence to the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee, 31st May 2022 We were pleased to have the opportunity to give evidence to the EHRCJ...
31st May 2022
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Lucy Hunter Blackburn: Oral evidence to the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee, 31st May 2022
“Think of it this way. If a GRC is a sort of key, and you are going to hand out lots more copies, to a more diverse group, the...
31st May 2022
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Joint note on Scottish Government handling of gender recognition reform
The note below was sent to Joe Fitzpatrick MSP, Convener of the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee. The note highlights the Scottish Government’s inadequate policy processes, its...
30th May 2022
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Has the Scottish Government undertaken any further analysis on gender recognition reform since 2019?
On 2 March 2022 the Scottish Government published the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill. On introducing the Bill Social Justice Secretary Shona Robison stated: ‘This Bill does not introduce...
20th May 2022
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MBM submission to Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee on the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill
Our submission to the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee on the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill can be read below. A copy of the submission can also...
20th May 2022
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Cross-border effects of GRA reform in Scotland: unanswered questions
We have written previously about the potential cross border effects of the Scottish Government’s proposals to introduce a self-declaration model of legal sex change. In 2003, the then Scottish...
27th April 2022
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The SPS review on trans prisoners: a chance to get policy-making in Scottish prisons back on track
This blog uses material from recently received FoI responses, supplemented by other published and unpublished sources, to consider how the current Scottish Prison Service (SPS) review of its Gender...
6th April 2022