Scottish Government hiding GRA Consultation results

I noticed this in Charlie's post:
A large proportion of the public continues to be unaware that these reform proposals exist and even if they know of their existence, few understand their implications for society in general and the rights of women in particular.

I found that doorstep campaigners didn't have the first clue that these policies were in their own manifesto either.

Typical SNP behaviour. Everything is covered up. Yet more to be swept under the carpet.

Any organisation that is a member of Stonewall's champion scheme cannot be said to be independent in anyway for this purpose.

I think it may have even been done by Nat Cen, whose CEO then is now the CEO of Stonewall.

The "independent analysis" of the English GRA consultation was biased and loaded.

Yes.

First email I have had back which wasn't a holding reply. Still not a great deal further forward though -

'The Scottish Government report that there is no timescale for the publication of results of the GRA consultation due to dealing with Covid as priority. But they say they are now arranging for the consultation responses to be independently analysed and will publish the analysis report in due course.'

In my initial email, I had been very clear that I understood that there would be inevitable delays due to COVID but asked for an approximate idea of when the analysis report would be published.

We are not going to let them away with this, we need to tell as many people as possible what is going, tell the men and women in your lives what is at stake here. It’s ypur mothers, sisters, daughters, grandchildren’s safety they are messing with and we can’t let this happen.

Yes.

FFS I swear it gets worse they just keep doubling down.

Thank you.

We believe this is a serious failure of due process.

It is!

Update from Women and Girls in Scotland:
twitter.com/WG_Scotland/status/1416011674495107073?s=19

Shona Robison, Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Housing and Local Government, is taking over the Ministerial remit for reforming the GRA in Scotland, and the government officials that have worked on GRA reform for the last four years will no longer be involved.

In case it is of interest, @mbmpolicy has listed some of Shona's previous comments regarding trans inclusion in women's spaces here: t.co/SdGZiq913s

The Scottish Government has confirmed it will now consider whether to publish individual responses to the GRA Bill consultation, but it has not yet provided a date for publication of its consultation report and organisational responses.

The Scottish Government also told us it didn't include the findings of our Female Only Provision Report, found here: t.co/uZO6Ofhy4u, as evidence of the need for single sex spaces in the GRA Bill consultation, because the report did not come up in its literature search.

However the government already had our report & had discussed it with us, & yet nonetheless claimed in the consultation not to know of any evidence showing women need spaces away from males, regardless of how they identify. We believe this is a serious failure of due process.

Scotland is FAST becoming the local area "Canada" of nonsense.

And local pockets of North England: and South Coast England.

This is NOT a good thing for anyone who has battled for Protections under the EA UK Act.

Have received a holding email from one MSP regarding my questions about when the analysis report will be published - will update when I hear more

Bump.

Thanks @Rhannion

I would think it was Twitter Olly

(My bold)

The Gender Recognition Act 2004 is a law written by the Labour Party.

GRA Reform efforts were instigated by the Conservative Party in 2016, who accepted wholesale only the arguments of the pro-self-id side made during its Transgender Equality Inquiry in 2015.

It took Theresa May to (inadvertently) save women's sex-based rights in 2017 when she dissolved parliament. Because in 2016, as a result of that Transgender Equality Inquiry, Maria Miller (CON) as sponsor and supported by Jess Phillips (LAB) brought a Private Members Bill named the Gender Identity (Protected Characteristic) Bill

A Bill to make gender identity a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010 in place of gender reassignment and to make associated provision for transgender and other persons; and for connected purposes.

Amongst other things, connected purposes included abolishing the sex-based exemptions for all purposes for all those who had a GRC under the GRA 2004, and there is now no way to discern whether this would have then also applied to all those who gained a GRC under the reformed GRA as proposed. (Various statements made at the time and since made by the Bill's supporters leads me to believe that they intended to disapply the sex-based exceptions from all those who self-identified as the opposite sex, which for all intents and purposes means abolishing them.)

The Bill passed its first stage reading in December 2016, but thanks to Ms May it fell when she dissolved parliament in April 2017.

Which gave those who even back then understood the implications of this reform just enough time to marshall women's rights campaigners and concerned women and men from all over the UK. So when the GRA reform plans were revisited under the new parliament in 2017, which occasioned a public consultation that closed in 2018, it resulted in a large number of feminist submissions opposing the plans. Since then, the movement to defend and uphold women's sex-based rights under the Equality Act 2010 has grown too large to be ignored.

Important history lesson for all of us in Scotland and other U.K. nations, great post Charlie.

Have just written to all my MSP's. A useful website for doing this is www.writetothem.com in case anyone wants to do the same.

The only party I could vote for that didn't support self id was the conservatives, and I couldn't go that far.
It's not only the SNP who don't know what a woman is.