From the EN submission:
'A GRC recognises the way in which a trans person is already living, it does not grant permission to them to do so. There are, as the Intervener submits in more detail below, very few occasions in which having a GRC has a practical effect.'
'in connection with the risk of abuse of the new system, it is very difficult, if not impossible, to think of any circumstance in which being in possession of a GRC would enable a person to carry out a harmful act when they could not have done so without a GRC'
'Once a GRC is obtained, the person’s birth certificate will match their lived gender; it will be impossible to know from the new birth certificate that the person had a different gender at birth.'
'If an employer, service provider or other had reason to believe that the individual had obtained a GRC (Scottish or otherwise) fraudulently, there would be no barrier to that being reported to the police. Given the concerns expressed by the respondent about the socalled lack of safeguards in respect of applications under the Bill, this 5 provides further assurance that ‘bad actors’ can be identified and investigated'
'Since the enactment of the GRA 2004 it has been the case that an individual who holds a GRC is for all purposes the acquired gender in law (section 9 GRA). The protected characteristic of ‘sex’ is defined in the Equality Act 2010 as being either a man or a woman (section 11 EqA). It has therefore been the case since before the enactment of the Equality Act 2010 that an employee holding a GRC could raise claims of sex discrimination or equal pay on the basis of their acquired gender, citing comparators of the opposite sex to their acquired gender.'
'...it would be a relatively simple matter to extend to associations with 25 or more members (Part 7 of EqA), and to single sex schools (Part 6 of EqA) the gender reassignment exception which applies in relation to single-sex services (EqA Sch.3 para28).'