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Wonderful new from Scotland about the gender recognition reform bill followed by the grim predictability that this awful Tory government are threatening to block it.
It's so grim isn't it, this Government really does try to kill every single thing that's good.
FWIW, they are talking about checking that the GRA is compatible with the Equality Act. It almost certainly will be, because the lawyers at Holyrood aren't - unlike the Tories - cretins (I'm friends with two of them). So I suspect this is all talk.
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Hmmmm.. the recent supreme court judgement on the advisory referendum rather suggests they are cretins. The Lord Advocate's submission was an embarrassment to the legal profession.
The Scottish GR legislation seems to me to have been badly drafted in a strictly legal sense in terms of the Scotland Act and the Equalities Act. For SNP MSPs to vote against their own legislation is a novel experience. The rush to get this bill through before Ms Forbes comes back from her maternity leave is telling.Edit to add. this seems to me to be a reasonable summary legally..
https://ukconstitutionallaw.org/2022/12/21/michael-foran-sex-gender-and-the-scotland-act/
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Wonderful new from Scotland about the gender recognition reform bill followed by the grim predictability that this awful Tory government are threatening to block it. Also great news from Spain where a similar bill has been passed.