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Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill: reflections on the first day of the judicial review of the Section 35 Order
Yesterday saw the first day of the Scottish Government’s (SG) challenge to the Section 35 Order applied by the UK Government to the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill. Information...
20th September 2023
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Scottish-UK Government contact over the GRR Bill: shedding more light on the process
…the joint work on implementation went ahead. At official level there were fortnightly meetings between UK and Scottish officials as the Bill progressed through Parliament, including early work towards...
12th September 2023
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Who are the interveners in the judicial review of the UK Government’s use of Section 35?
The judicial review of the UK Government’s decision to invoke Section 35 of the Scotland Act 1998 in respect of the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill will be heard...
11th September 2023
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Recorded police warnings: the need for transparency and accountability
On 23 July 2023 at a public rally organised by the grassroots feminist group Women Won’t Wheesht, a transactivist punched a 54-year old woman, Julie Marshall. The assault resulted...
10th September 2023
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GRCs, sexual harm and risk: following the logic of amendments to the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill
At Stage 3 of the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill the Scottish Parliament passed amendment 40, and related consequential amendments, proposed by Gillian Martin MSP, aimed at providing safeguards...
8th September 2023
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Clarity matters: how placating lobbyists obscures public understanding of sex and gender
This blog describes the results of polling we commissioned to test how well people understand what the terms ‘transgender woman’ and ‘trans woman’ tell them about a person’s sex....
7th August 2023
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Changing the prison rules
In 2014, the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) published its Gender Identity and Gender Reassignment policy, allowing prisoners to be accommodated and searched on the basis of self-declared gender identity....
29th June 2023
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The missing statistic: assessing Scottish Prison Service policy on transgender prisoners
In late 2018 the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) commented in an online media article that it intended to review its Gender Identity and Gender Reassignment policy. Developed over a...
22nd June 2023
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Police Scotland policy on recording rape: an exercise in institutional sexism and misogyny
it is right for me, the right thing for me to do as Chief Constable, to clearly state that institutional racism, sexism, misogyny and discrimination exist… we know, I...
11th June 2023
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Edging back to normality? The report of the Scottish Government’s Independent Strategic Review of Funding and Commissioning of Violence Against Women and Girls Services
In 2021, the Scottish Government established an independent review to look at the funding and commissioning of services dealing with violence against women and girls (VAWG). Its report was...
9th June 2023