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MBM submission to the Justice Committee: Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill (July 2020)
The Hate Crime and Public Order Bill is intended to provide for the modernising, consolidating and extending of hate crime legislation in Scotland. Since publication in April 2020, the draft Bill...
30th May 2021
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Evidence to the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee (24 August 2020)
Submission by MurrayBlackburnMackenzie Introduction We welcome the opportunity to submit evidence to the Committee and apologise for not having identified the need to do so sooner. The annex provides...
30th May 2021
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Letter to Scotland’s Chief Statistician on the Working group on sex and gender identity in data (20 January 2020)
20 January 2020 Dear Roger, Thank you for meeting us last week to discuss our views on sex and gender data, and your plans for making recommendations for Ministers....
30th May 2021
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Letter to the Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Affairs Committee: MBM position on data collection (11 September 2019)
Letter to the Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Affairs Committee (CTEEA) explaining our position on data collection, in response to a letter co-signed by a number of LGBT organisations...
30th May 2021
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Letter to the CTEEA Committee: key issues on the census sex question (11 September 2019)
Letter to CTEEA Committee, setting out key issues and concerns about the sex question in Scotland's census.
30th May 2021
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Letter to the Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Affairs Committee: EU legislation on the census (7 October 2019)
Our letter to the Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Affairs Committee: EU legislation on EU legistlation and the census. 7 October 2019 Dear Committee Members, We would like to...
30th May 2021
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MBM response to the Chief Statistician’s Working Group on sex and gender identity data
In December 2020 the Scottish Government published the Chief Statistician’s draft guidance on the collection of data on sex and gender for public bodies. The draft guidance advises that...
28th May 2021
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Opaque and overdue: the Scottish Prison Service trans prisoner policy review
The article linked below, published by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, looks at developments on the Scottish Prison Service trans prisoner policy review between December 2018 and...
28th May 2021
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MBM factcheck on claims made about women’s sex-based rights and gender recognition reform during the 2021 Holyrood election campaign
MBM factcheck on 2021 Holyrood election claims PDF Throughout the election campaign, candidates have been asked about their views on single-sex spaces, the Equality Act, and how women should...
6th May 2021
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Review of party manifesto commitments relating to women’s sex-based rights
Against a backdrop of active debate about women’s sex-based rights, this blog reviews the manifestos for the five parties represented in the last Scottish Parliament, as well as those...
28th April 2021