Assessment of the Scottish Govt's Gender Recognition Reform Bill

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We've just published our assessment of the Scottish Government's Gender Recognition Reform Bill and consultation paper.

murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/2020/01/27/mbm-assessment-of-the-gender-recognition-reform-scotland-bill/

We are taking steps to share it with key people and hope it may be helpful to anyone who is contacting their MSP about GRA reform. You can see all of our output on GRA reform here:

murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/gender-recognition-act-reform/

We're continuing to scrutinise plans for the 2021 census too. To recap: each of the three UK census authorities is still planning to guide respondents to answer the sex question based on their self-declared gender identity. Our output on the census is all here:

murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/scotlands-2021-census-and-other-data/

We met with the Scottish Government's Chief Statistician earlier this month to discuss data on sex and gender, and wrote to him afterwards summarising our concerns:

mbmpolicy.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/murrayblackburnmackenzie-letter-to-the-working-group-on-sex-and-gender-data-chair-20-january-2020-final.pdf

Thanks to everyone on FWR who has been supportive of our work to date. Please get in touch if you come across any examples of where self gender identification principles have been introduced without consideration being given to the impact on women's sex-based rights.

Kath, Lucy and Lisa

Very big thanks for all your work Kathy Lucy and Lisa 💪💪💪👏👏👏👏👏

thanks for this
I also found a lot of unanswered questions from the new consultation.
The EQIA is also very poor and jumps to a lot of conclusions without the evidence to back them up. I say that as an equality officer in a local authority.
I have concerns that they have assumed that the existing exemptions in the Equality Act will continue to protect single sex spaces and have ignored that a lot of services are choosing not to use these or are under the impression they cannot use these due to misleading guidance from organisations such as Stonewall or they believe they will lose funding if they do choose to use them

Thank you all for this.

I will be reading and taking more notes in addition to those I have already made. I will closer to the time complete the consultation.

DragonLangx considering government funded lobby groups are involved/leading the spread of misinformation and ignoring of EA2010 gives me no confidence that EA2010 will uphold any rights for women and girls.