Category: Gender recognition • Page 11
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Public attitudes to gender recognition reform: an overview
This blog places our recent polling results on public attitudes towards gender recognition reform in the context of other polling results on the same topic. Currently, to obtain a...
18th December 2021
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Polling shows being supportive of transgender self-expression is not the same as supporting self-declaration for legal gender recognition
Download: Polling shows being supportive of transgender self-expression is not the same as supporting self-declaration for legal gender recognition In September 2021 the Scottish Government set out a commitment...
14th December 2021
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Gender Recognition Act 2004: Hansard
The Gender Recognition Bill was introduced in the House of Lords on 27 November 2003. It was passed by the House of Lords on 10 February 2004, with 155 votes in...
14th September 2021
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Gender recognition reform: are women’s concerns valid?
In an interview on BBC Radio Scotland’s Good Morning Scotland on 10 September, the First Minister stated that women’s concerns about GRA reform were “not valid” and that it...
10th September 2021
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Gender recognition reform and international developments
The current reliance on ‘international developments’ in relation to gender recognition reform is under-researched and misplaced. The Scottish Government needs to look much more critically at the precedents legislated...
8th September 2021
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MBM statement on Scottish Government Programme for Government announcement on GRA reform
“The consultation on the previous draft Bill raised serious questions that currently remain unanswered. These include a failure to address the interaction between self-declaration and the operation of single-sex...
8th September 2021
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Consulation on GRA reform: missing data, cost cutting, and delayed publication
The Scottish Government has now published the independent analysis of the responses to the consultation on the draft Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill. In total 17,058 responses were available...
6th September 2021
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Lisa Mackenzie’s speech to FWS rally, 2 September 2021
Lisa Mackenzie’s speech at the For Women Scotland rally outside the Scottish Parliament on 2 September 2021 can be accessed here.
2nd September 2021
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Gender recognition reform: consultation and transparency
Gender recognition reform: consultation and transparency On 20 August 2021 the Scottish Government and Scottish Green Party published its Draft Shared Policy Programme. This stated: “We will reform the...
22nd August 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