Our article on gender self-ID and policy capture in Scottish public policy

[MurrayBlackburnMackenzie]

We wanted to bring your attention to an article in the academic journal Scottish Affairs, which has been published today. It’s about gender self-identification, Scottish public policymaking and policy capture, a topic we’ve seen debated in FWR on more than one occasion!

We’re delighted to say the article is published on an open access basis, so you can all read the full text and share it as you see fit on social media and elsewhere.

www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/scot.2019.0284

We think Mumsnet is an important resource for women and we have definitely benefitted from following debates on here.

Like so many women involved in this debate, we have been doing this work in our own time on an unpaid basis, squeezed around work, childcare and other responsibilities. We do this work because we care very much about women's rights and we are pleased to be able to bring our skills to bear in analysing policy and practice.

You can read more about the work we’ve done to date on our blog. We welcome all feedback, so please do drop us a line via our contact form.

www.mbmpolicy.wordpress.com

Thank you!

Great, thank you

Ooh! I've been waiting for this. Reading now!

Looks to be interesting.
Will be back

Been posting links to it. Great work 💪💪

Thank you for doing this

Well that reads like a piece of well-sourced academic writing.

Compare and contrast with pomo gobbledegook about sex being a spectrum.

Thank you!

Thanked you in the other thread and I’ll thank you again here! So pleased that you are doing this research.

Shared on facebook.

Hadn’t finished typing - it’s heavily ironic in view of the Yaniv situation, seems female prison officers would be required to handle male genitalia whether they want to or not.

Wow - an excellent, well researched article (and of course mirrors much of the situation elsewhere)
Many congratulations to you all - it can't fail to have an impact.

Excellent article

Place marking to give my full attention when kids in bed

Thank you!

Thank you. Place marking so I can read it soon.

Thank you.

Curious if it’s peer reviewed and if so, how you got it past the TWAW crew

This is now a significant challenge for the Scottish Government, which needs to find a way to allow for open debate

The lobby groups have been ruthless in their demands.
I really hope 'no debate' will be consigned to the history books.

Placemarking to read tomorrow.

A woman's gotta placemark

Morning bump

Thanks for the bump, we’ll need to keep it up as attempts to bump it down by derailing other threads is ongoing

Bump

I’ll read this later once baby is sleeping.