"A Scottish government spokesman said: “We received over 15,500 responses to our consultation on plans to reform the Gender Recognition Act 2004. These responses are being independently analysed and we will outline the way ahead in due course.”"
So this policy will be decided by the will of the people but only those who knew and were able to fill in a consultation. Given that you don't need to be UK based to fill out these consultations, if they are influencing policy to the degree its implied by this government spokesperson that they are, its worrying for the state of democracy.