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A regressive step for Scottish policing: Police Scotland Interim transgender search guidance
Image: Progress flag at Police Scotland headquarters (posted on X 6 June 2024) 1. Introduction On 25 June 2025 Police Scotland published Interim guidance on Searching of transgender persons...
21st July 2025
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Pre-appointment scrutiny of the EHRC Chair: putting current events in context
Update 18 July: the Committees have today published their letter. We will now undertake an analysis of that. On 1 July Westminster’s Women and Equalities Committee and Joint Committee...
14th July 2025
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Prisons in Scotland: who is responsible?
On 25 April, following the judgment in the UK Supreme Court, we wrote to Angela Constance MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Justice, asking the Scottish Government to withdraw the Scottish...
11th July 2025
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Gender identity jargon vs inclusive communication: a case study
Image: Daily Mail 27 June 2025 Introduction Within the last decade, organisations have introduced jargon, derived from gender identity theory, that is hard to understand, inaccessible, or simply meaningless....
7th July 2025
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Response to the EHRC consultation: addressing confusion around the Code of practice for services, public functions and associations
The Equality and Human Rights Commission’s consultation on its Code of practice for services, public functions and associations closes later today. The EHRC is only seeking comments on those...
30th June 2025
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The threat to domestic violence support services for women in Edinburgh
Introduction This blog looks at a recent threat to funding provided by the City of Edinburgh Council to Edinburgh Women’s Aid (EWA). This arose from an objection to EWA’s...
16th June 2025
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Police Scotland and the Sullivan Review: getting data collection back on track
Introduction The recent publication of the Sullivan Independent Review of Data, Statistics and Research on Sex and Gender, to which we provided support, has thrown a spotlight on data...
9th May 2025
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MBM statement on adding ‘sex’ to the Hate Crime and Public Order Act (Scotland) 2021
Introduction The Scottish Government has announced today that it will bring forward an Order to add “sex” as a protected characteristic to the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland)...
2nd May 2025
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Giving women a voice: the Supreme Court and the STUC
Introduction The Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) was founded in 1897. Its stated purpose is to co-ordinate, develop and articulate the views and policies of the Trade Union Movement...
1st May 2025
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Acting now on the Supreme Court judgment: Scottish Government premises as a case study
Introduction Following the clarification of the law by the Supreme Court, the Scottish Government has repeatedly stressed the need for the EHRC to issue a revised Code of Practice...
30th April 2025