Women & Girls in Scotland GRA Consultation Guidance

I believe so Pale perhaps @GRAconsultationGuidance can confirm?
The closing date is usually the last date for submission.

Can I submit on 17th March? Have done a lot, but am not going to finish tonight.

Listen to littl!

forwomen.scot/
Link above with dead easy help on filling it in

Do it do it do it I am chanting

I must have spent about 40 mins in total - included reading and cross referencing as well as writing. Hope it goes well!

I'm doing mine this afternoon. How long did it take you?

De-lurking to say that I have completed and submitted. It wasn't as long or difficult as I was expecting, so do give it a shot. Thanks to you all for continuing to foreground these issues.

People are responding to say they have done it so it's worth the effort to keep pushing!

Really pleased to see you're doing this MrsSnippyPants, thank you!

Bumping to remind you that ReSisters are spending all of today encouraging people to fill this in. They will be available on social media between 10am and 10pm posting useful links and answering questions (well, mostly pointing people at the fantastic guidance documents published by so many groups).
Don't let perfection be the enemy of good; just tell the government what you think! Please encourage everyone you know to respond.

I’ve just finished final read through tomorrow before posting.

Done.

This thread is such a great resource. Thanks for all the hard work put into this by all the different groups, especially Women and Girls Scotland.
I've been reading through the comprehensive answers provided by WGS and I'm very impressed by how clear and detailed it is. Will be including it in my submission.

As I understand it, the GRC in its current form absolutely conflicts with and infringes upon women's rights and protections in the EQA, especially if the EHRC code is used.
Therefore any subsequent reform that removes a diagnosis of gender dysphoria as a criteria for obtaining a GRC will only serve to expand the numbers and will cause further erosion of women's rights and protections under the EQA.

Is there a possibility of some sort of Human Rights case being brought against the UK and/or Scottish governments on behalf of British women due to this blatant conflict and undermining of our rights? Would we start with the UK and/or Scottish courts and then keep moving up to the European Court of Human Rights?

I guess the evidence base gathered from this consultation would prove a good starting point...

Thanks, gra, I’ll try to do that.

Ok, thanks. I just hope they will listen as this already makes me avoid certain places which I wouldn't normally have done.. until I found out that adult males are allowed into all our spaces.

You have to give your name but you can ask that it is 'published' without it.

Oh and I personally don't think anyone should be able to change their sex on a birth certificate etc at all, can I say that?

How can you do it anonymously? It asks for your name?

Also, I know I may sound stupid here but as I'm reading the governments info on it all, to me it feels like they are wanting to shorten the times etc so they can keep a better eye on trans people? Keep track of them all? Not that it bothers me, just seems like that!

The thing I'm most upset about is that I already won't use women's loos anymore, usually use the disabled one and don't use changing rooms at all. I'd like to swim but would never go now because I don't want a male near me in a changing room. I'm actually limiting my own life an awful lot just because there is a slight increased risk in a predatory male attacking me in women only spaces. Can I type that or will they just ignore me? It's actually incredibly detrimental to my life.

I filled it in yesterday, wish I’d seen this thread first as it has so much more I could have added! Still, at least mine is one more in the “no thanks” pile.

I've finally sat down to start responding and I just feel so sad and angry. I looked at "sex" in the impact assessment and there, bulletpointed in black and white , were all our concerns re safe spaces, sports , statistics etc. But there'll be "no impact" because there are available exceptions under the Equality Act, oh, and the Scottish Government is committed to free speech. The bloody GALL to cite these , whilst knowingly allowing government, police , schools and other organisations to succumb to the misinformation from Stonewall-type organisations . It's just so cynical, they don't give a fuck about women and girls.

Sorry for the inarticulate rant.

Good point Sillydoggy.

Finally finished. The trickiest thing is that you can answer it with brief to the point answers or you can write a dissertation- it is hard to know where to stop.
Make sure you write your basic opinion of the bill in simple language before answering in more detail. I thought it was easy to get involved in the detail and forget to say ‘I fundamentally disagree’.
Proud to say my daughters filled it in too.