ScotGov Gender Reform Bill - tomorrow

[Hagiography]

Professor Sharon Cowan, Professor of Feminist and Queer Legal Studies, University of Edinburgh School of Law

Naomi Cunningham, Barrister, Outer Temple Chambers and Chair, Sex Matters

Karon Monaghan QC, Barrister, Matrix Chambers

David Parker, Lead Clinician, National Gender Identity Clinical Network for Scotland

www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/committees/current-and-previous-committees/session-6-equalities-human-rights-and-civil-justice-committee/meetings/2022/ehrcjs62218/agenda

Will be screened live.

Reduxx site doesnt' seem to be working.

Archive: web.archive.org/web/20220606014846/reduxx.info/top-trans-medical-association-collaborated-with-castration-child-abuse-fetishists/

demand increased sharply since pandemic

That was a good question about "Is there one thing common to all trans people that they all experience" Answer bla bla bla bla bla. In other words, no!

We don't know how many people and we don't keep the data

Either these things are indefinable and therefore not coverable by law or they have to be described and defined.

'I don't know there's a formal minimum age for treatment' - that's a no, then?

Why is David Parker whispering? Is it the difficulty in dealing with hearing this stuff said out loud 😀

I don't know, it's quite hard to hear what he's saying.

He is speaking very very softly.

Do you think there would be any unintended consequences?

I think the numbers would be very small

Based on.....what?

It seems clear many of these witnesses/experts are making confident predictions based on no evidence at all.

I had to connect my tablet to a speaker to hear him. Maybe he was cringing at himself?

It really is as bad as we've been saying though, fuck all definitions, fuck all thought to consequences, just get those barriers down! 🌈

The bullshit about "oh I can't quite see the small print" 🙄 before admitting that numbers overall had doubled in a very short time.

I suspect the figures are worse for young people (aka children), because he completely fudged it, dodged giving numbers or percentage increase and waffled irrelevant shit about the pandemic.

What a tool to be quite honest.

The GRC seems to be the problem. I thought recent judgements have said that even those with a GRC can be excluded. Karen is almost getting it but IANAL

The comments about the process being intrusive is just weird, given how intrusive the state is about benefits, nationality, tax etc . Why are these people exempt from what others have to go through? What about privacy for women and girls. Naomi is great.

Lots of showing of rainbow lanyards, male pattern baldness, and summer dresses in the clips!

Karen then states that there are questions around other “ identities”

Like, say, Eunuchs?

I know I'm going on about this, but ...

In no way should a GRC mean that the male can access womanhood. Or womens spaces. We don’t want even more of these males in our spaces either. No.

Karen says it’s about a change of sex…which it isn’t .

Perhaps they should all be stating more plainly what actually happens when people transition medically…they are all skirting about it…

Apologies all. I am just hopping about in total frustration!

Pam Duncan. what is the cohort wishing to access via GRC if process is made easier? Clearly those wanting access to females women girls to deceive us. Prisons refuges etc. Thank you Naomi for pointing this out.

I saw that on a clip on Twitter

But that minster from the church. How bloody patronising was she

Naomi is on a roll. Agree totally on exclusion of women