Category: Gender recognition • Page 12
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Losing sight of women’s rights (again): A response to Cowan et al. Scottish Affairs
In August 2019, the peer-reviewed journal Scottish Affairs published our article ‘Losing Sight of Women’s Rights: the unregulated introduction of gender self-identification as a case study of policy capture...
13th November 2020
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MBM response to the UK Government GRA announcement
Today’s statement by Liz Truss brings much needed clarity on the UK Government’s proposals to reform the Gender Recognition Act. We have previously argued that a shift to a...
22nd September 2020
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A fork in the road? Comparing plans for gender recognition reform across the UK
Over the weekend, it was reported in The Sunday Times that the UK Government is scrapping plans to allow individuals in England and Wales to change legal sex simply...
17th June 2020
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Reform ‘under the radar’? Lessons for Scotland from the Development of Gender Self-Declaration Laws in Europe. Edinburgh Law Review
Our analysis suggests that those jurisdictions in Europe who have already introduced self-declaration models for legal sex change have tended to do so with very little public scrutiny.
7th May 2020
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Shifting sands on the definition of ‘woman’ in Scots law: the journey of the Gender Representation on Public Boards Act from consultation to implementation
That women remain under-represented in public life is largely uncontested. Campaigns to improve the representation of women enjoy support across the political spectrum, even if there are differences in...
21st April 2020
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MBM statement on the suspension of GRA reform
We welcome today’s formal statement on the Scottish Government’s plans in relation to the Gender Recognition Reform Bill. The government has confirmed that work on the Bill is being...
1st April 2020
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GRA Reform: Meeting with Scottish Government officials 9 March 2020
On what now seems like a lifetime ago, 9 March, we met officials from the Scottish Government to discuss the consultation on the draft Gender Recognition Reform Bill. Our...
30th March 2020
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MBM submission to the 2019 Scottish GRA reform consultation
We have submitted our response to the Scottish Government’s consultation on on GRA reform. Our full consultation response is here: Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill: MurrayBlackburnMackenzieconsultation response We do...
16th March 2020
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We need more clarity on gender rights debate from Scottish Government
This article originally appeared in The Scotsman on 1 January 2020. The link to the article has since been removed following a redesign of The Scotsman website. The Government...
28th February 2020
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From medical assessment to affirmation: legal gender self-declaration in Ireland
Cited by the Scottish Government as its main example of ‘international best practice’, in 2015 the Irish Government passed the Gender Recognition Act. Yet the vast majority of Irish...
25th February 2020