SCOTTISH GRA REFORM ANNOUNCEMENT BROUGHT FORWARD

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It was going to be announced on the 25th - now moved forward to Thursday. Anyone going to join me in the public gallery at Holyrood??

twitter.com/wornoutmumhack/status/1140953953758261248?s=19

How dare they?

HOW DARE THEY?

3MONTHS!!! So you can change twice a year then.

16 years old. Counselled by nodding dogs. Child abuse.

Some women? Just a few of us eh? pffff

LGBT Youth Scotland - guidance will be replaced, after impact assesment

Data - working group discussion

Transpeople are top dog.

Women can FRO.

I imagine that there will be a Twitter clean-up operation in the pro self-ID ranks.

All those who said that women won't be affected by self-ID will be deleting those Tweets now. They'll say that they were always for public debate and that they are key stakeholders in that debate. Lots of jostling for position today.

Guaranteed.

My Notes:

The draft bill will do away with the need for medical evidence to get a GRC
Instead applicants must make a statutory declaration that

• they intend to live permanently in their acquired gender
• They have been living in their acquired gender for 3 months
• there will be a 3 months reflection period after the application is made
• the application must reconfirm that they wish to go ahead
• it is a criminal offense to knowingly make a false statutory declaration

They will consult on allowing 16 year olds to get a GRC

They will consult on the support required for gender questioning children
Children must be given support from a trusted adult who will listen to them (the examples given did not include parents)

• no changes will be made for non binary people at this time

Fuck me - just watched and the TRAs will be raging! Another consultation and removal of that terrible schools guidance. It's not a lot, but I think there is definitely a glimmer of hope?

It's certainly a lot better and more balanced than it could have been

"it is a criminal offense to knowingly make a false statutory declaration"

How on earth is the state supposed to prove that somebody's feelings were false?

Trust the system.

Really?

The scottish govenrment will offer guidance on upholding the rights of women and trans people - they wish to avoid the rights of some people taking precedence over others

The guidance for schools from LGBT scotland will no longer be used - valid concerns were raised about it, including that it allowed girls to be excluded from single sex spaces

It will be replaced with guidance produced by the scottish government by the end of the year, which will include equality impact assesments

"false decalration" looks a lot like DWP investigations into disability claims, secret filming to catch you.

So it’s on then. Activists and other ‘interested’ parties will me

No change to the equality act.

(Just keep ignoring it then.)

Sex dis-aggregated data

Name check for the wonderful Caroline Criado Perez (not the first or the last time her wonderful book with influence policy I'll be bound)

There will be a working group on sex and gender in data, who will consider the guidance for public bodies in what data to collect in what circumstances

(Oops put my hand in my pocket)... will be mobilised to attack and discredit women. Techy keyboard guys will be pumping out misinformation, Twitter will go into meltdown.

What can women do?

Oi Patrick - Shirley Anne said it wasn't self declaration!

'all women including transwomen'

pfft

Good to see the end of the LGBT guidance that chucked girls out of single-sex spaces if they didn't want to see a penis there.

Perhaps the Scottish government might wish to reflect on the lobby groups who produced these guidelines in the first place. And whether outsourcing policy to lunatics without any oversight is perhaps a bad move.

But I'm glad this is getting out there.

Lots of ordinary people will be asking what "living as a woman for 3 months" means.

Also lots of sexual assault trials take at least 6 months to get to court, even longer with more serious cases. We'll see lots of offenders awaiting trial who will be clicking on the gender button online just in case they get convicted.

Willie Rennie - TWAW and at risk from abusive men

Patrick's raging.

This seems cautiously positive although I'm yet to be convinced any consultation with women won't be fudged. I consider very few in the government trustworthy.

yeah, I guess the issue is, what will this GRC mean? I'm still not clear on that. If a man is convicted of rape, will he be allowed to make a statutory declaration? Does that mean he pops off to women's prison?

current question - better to pass shitty legislation with no consultation now that delay

Ha - fuck the consultation, can't we just introduce the bill anyhoo!

Harvey - democracy be damned

Joan is on

Yay! Joan McAlpine

Shero

mentioning women's campaign groups - turns out they're not transphobic

She's not holding back/

Alex Cole Hamilton wants to run the detail through without the consolation?

Did I hear him right?