Category: Gender recognition • Page 7
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The room where it happens
Drawing on a recent Freedom of Information (FOI) response, this blog looks at the pattern and substance of Scottish Government meetings on gender recognition reform between May and December...
11th February 2022
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Gender recognition reform and unanswered questions
This blog records our meetings with the Scottish Government about reform of the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) and our associated correspondence. It shows that despite two public consultations, both...
4th February 2022
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Joint statement on Scottish Government plans to legislate for the self-declaration of sex
We are pleased that the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has intervened to draw attention to concerns around current plans for reform of the Gender Recognition Act (GRA)...
27th January 2022
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MBM response to the EHRC statement on GRA reform in Scotland
We welcome this serious and substantial intervention by the EHRC on GRA reform in Scotland. The Commission echoes concerns that have been put repeatedly to the Scottish Government by...
26th January 2022
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Gender recognition reform: what happened to the manifesto?
This blog examines recent developments on gender recognition reform and how the Scottish Government appears to have broken its commitment to actively engage with a range of stakeholders ‘to...
14th January 2022
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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