UK Government confirms it will block Scottish GRR

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Jack's letter in full.

Thank fuck!!!

so pleased to read this!

No more than Diane Abbott !

Good news for Scotland and the rest of the UK! It shines a big light on the craziness of the gender recognition bill. If anyone was blissfully unaware before they'll be more informed than ever as this all unfolds.

Ditto. And Maggie Chapman sounds deranged

Good. More sunlight. Don't care who opens the curtains.

Poor lamb. Can anyone lend her their toddler for a minute to tell her?

I hate to be a Jeremiah but this isn't UKGOV riding to the rescue of Scottish women. The sole reason that S35 has been invoked is that UKGOV has received legal advice that the Scottish GRR act impinges on matters reserved to UKGOV (the EA). The action isn't concerned with whether the act is good law, poor law or totally batshit crazy law.

It is possible that the only impingement is single sex schools for 16+ year olds and that changing the age for obtaining a GRC in Scotland would be sufficient. I don't know but I'm not a lawyer.

On the positive side, it has bought some time; it provides the opportunity to expose the whole thing to the disinfectant of sunlight and, by the time it rocks up in front of the Supreme Court, the UKGOV may be forced to define the meaning of sex in the EA.

Oh aye, she's claiming she doesn't know what sex she is. Because she's not had her chromosomes tested.

She's 43 years old and apparently doesn't know what sex she is.

It's fucking gobsmacking.

How boringly predictable that trans people would be painted as the victims by Sturgeon of such political wrangling.

The SNP either genuinely believe in the GRR and are happy to throw women and girls under the bus for it or they see an opportunity of the GRR to play the “Meddling Westminster” card for independence and are happy to throw women and girls under the bus for it. Either way it reeks of misogyny.

Poor Pie, it must be dreadfully upsetting. Never mind eh, fantastic news for the rest of us: it’s a start 👍

I was one of the many Scottish women who wrote to Alister Jack to ask him to invoke section 35. The GRR Bill was poor legislation and the Scottish Government were determined to ignore any cross border issues or any clashes with the (reserved) EQA2010 legislation in their unhinged zeal to pass the the Bill through. Various political parties had to lay down a whip to ensure that their members voted for the Bill and the SNP faced the biggest revolt of SNP MSP's since they came to power.

I can't believe what the Scottish Parliament has come to.

And yes, SO many more important issue for Scotland to be focusing on just now - the worst drug death rate in Europe being just one of a litany of issues.

Ye raging, aye?

Exactly this.

The SNP and their trans extremist allies will face the backlash when young people and young women especially realise how these groups have put them at risk and cynically exploited their compassion and importantly their lack of experience.

There’s a word beginning with G for that.

I am very much looking forward to the sunlight that will be coming and in the end democracy will be stronger because we fight for it.

Interview with Maggie Chapman (sorry if linked already) I hadn't realised quite how batshit she is. Complete extremist. How the fuck did she get elected?

A horrible homicide. But there is no evidence in that article showing that the killing was a hate crime.

Pink News also writes this:

A report released ahead of Trans Day of Remembrance (20 November) 2022 revealed that between 1 October, 2021 and 30 September, 2022 at least 327 trans and gender-diverse people have been killed around the world just for being themselves.

Globally, 27 per cent of victims died in their own homes, with 35 per cent of killings happening in the street.

Most (95 per cent) reported victims were trans women or femmes. A majority of victims (65 per cent) were people of colour, and almost half (48 per cent) were known to be sex workers.

Murders are horrible, but, once again, there is nothing to tell us why those particular individuals died, and it is incorrect to assume that a transgender person who is killed must have been killed for being transgender. Some probably were killed for the kinds of reasons many homicide victims are killed in general (domestic violence, street crime, gang violence).

I am glad to see that the total numbers of these dreadful deaths are so low for transgender people. No number of homicides is acceptable, and the rates at which sex workers are killed is a giant problem (also for women in prostitution in general), but the global numbers here suggest that most transgender people don't have to worry about being killed (or for being killed for being transgender).

We can never ever be complacent. This will never go away fully.

I'm Scottish and I'm relieved the UK government have intervened.

Polls show that the vast majority in Scotland were not in favour of the GRR changes.

Your posts always tickle me for some reason, in the bleakness of Sturgeon's mentalness.

I've got that original Clash album, the actual vinyl LP.

For the lurkers who perhaps haven't seen the relevant legislation regarding the EQA2010 -

Single sex exemptions (which allows even those with a GRC to be excluded in certain situations) -

www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/notes/division/3/16/20/7

Prisons -

murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/2023/01/13/what-does-the-scottish-prison-service-really-think-about-the-gender-recognition-reform-scotland-bill-2/

Sports -

www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/notes/division/3/14/5

Margey's chart is wheeled out with tedious regularity by people who either haven't read or simply don't understand the EQA2010. Or by people who claim that there are 'no such thing as sex based rights' despite obvious evidence to the contrary.

We all know that these rights exist but organisations are ignoring the legislation which allows for single sex spaces due to Government funding being contingent on males being included and due to incorrect information by lobby groups.

The GRR Bill allows for anyone over the age of 16 to obscure their sex, falsify medical and legal documents and gain access to single sex spaces due to the silencing affect. Self ID makes it even more difficult for organisations to hold the line and provide the single sex services which they are legally entitled to provide. Beira's Place is already getting threats from TRA's that their service will be challenged as discriminatory despite them being perfectly entitled to provide such a service and given that they will be the only single sex rape crisis service in the Lothians, amid a sea of mixed sex services.

Yabadabadoooo

I'd be interested to hear what Scots think about this? It affects so few compared to other hot issues at the moment. Surely Nicola has bigger more important issues to follow? And I don't mean her bloody referendum.

ALSO THIS ONE ITS NO FUNNY ILL HAVE THE POLIS ROON FOR HATE CRIMES

Pah the JR is another sure loss. But the SNP will carrying on mining that grievance until the Scottish are so thick with it they cannot see the sun.