Tory ministers have suggested the Bill may be incompatible with equalities laws – a matter reserved to Westminster
It is laudable that SNP and Green politicians want to improve the lives of trans people in Scotland. The rules on how people can change their legally recognised gender are inflexible and out of date.
If that happens, the Bill would be effectively rendered useless despite the hours of parliamentary time devoted to it. Opponents of GRR had warned it could impinge on UK equality laws, so this cannot have come as a complete surprise to the Scottish Government. There were plenty of MSPs warning that the new law could infringe women’s sex-based rights. Maybe if these concerns had been listened to and acted upon, this new law would not be in the middle of a damaging spat between the UK and Scottish governments.
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