Full manifesto available here:
greens.scot/ourfuture
Women and Equalities excerpts:
The Scottish Greens stand firmly for inclusive,
intersectional feminism which recognises not only that gender inequality runs deep in our society, but also that it is affected by other kinds of inequality like wealth, disability, racial injustice, LGBT+ discrimination and more.
The impact of COVID has worsened pre-existing
gender inequalities, from the uneven burden of
both paid and unpaid care work, to the impact of gender based violence and the barriers to accessing support under the pandemic restrictions. However there have also been positive developments. Many employers have been forced to recognise not only that flexible and remote working is possible, but also how gender inequality affects the way people’s home lives impact on their working lives. Learning
from the experience of COVID could result in
real improvements to equal, accessible and flexible working arrangements.
The Scottish Greens will:
• Fully integrate gender budgeting into all public
budgeting processes.
• Place closing the gender pay gap at the heart of our plans for a green recovery.
• Support the work of the expert group
established to examine how the criminal justice
system deals with misogyny.
We will:
• Deliver long overdue reforms to the Gender Recognition Act, including statutory self declaration, recognising non-binary identities and all genders, and providing access to health care for trans minors with parental or guardian consent.
• Introduce an informed consent model of trans
healthcare, and in the meantime continue to
push for access to Gender Identity Clinics
within 18 weeks, in line with NHS standards
for other services.
• Ban so-called “conversion therapy”, which refers to unethical and unnecessary interventions that seek to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of LGBT+ people or alter a person’s sex characteristics without
their consent.
• Ensure LGBT+ inclusion in Scottish
Government international development policies,
and enshrining the Yogyakarta human rights
principles into Scots law.
We will fight for the decriminalisation of sex work to ensure sex workers are legally protected from exploitation, trafficking and violence and have improved access to support and healthcare.
The Scottish Greens believe we need to do
much more to tackle endemic sexual harassment and violence against women in Scotland. We will develop a strategy that effectively prevents and responds to violence, and that centres the needs and concerns of survivors. At its heart will be a focus on education, through ensuring the delivery of high quality consent based relationship and sex education, training and information campaigns, and on ensuring public services better respond to survivors of abuse. We support reform of the criminal justice system so that it better works for survivors, and will create a Victims Commissioner for Scotland to represent the interests of victims and to drive improvements and innovation in the justice system.