"Ministers ‘delaying’ implementing gender ruling till after election" (Scotland, obviously)

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Nicola Richards, the Scottish government’s director of people has this to say:

"She later reiterated that any alterations to policies, which the EHRC has suggested will be likely to mean restricting access to single-sex spaces based on biological sex, would “follow any required and appropriate consultation and engagement”."

Are there other laws that need consultation and engagement before they are implemented?

https://www.thetimes.com/article/c42b9475-4e9a-4d01-8c44-7b4196e0b40e?shareToken=ccc208394b8ffb830046191b77d14167

They’re not even laws - just policies. The existing law has been clarified by the SC.

No need for delay whatsoever; they’re just covering their arses as they know there’ll be a lot of kicking and screaming from the lunatic wing of the TRA movement when they finally acknowledge the truth.

Hopefully the controversy over Sandie Peggie will cause a rethink. The Tories and Labour will have a field day in the election campaign and I don't think sitting on their hands and saying nothing will suffice.

So the Scottish government are knowingly and deliberately acting outside the law?

As their policies are in direct contradiction of the Equality Act and the Supreme Court ruling, surely this becomes a matter for the U.K. government to step in again?

If the Scottish government can’t be trusted to abide by the law of the land, they need to be made to do so.

There's no need for any consultation nor will a consultation change the law no males however they identify in female single sex spaces end of ffs

That will put the implementation several months closer to SP elections. It strikes me that this should be the last thing that the current government would want. And of course they're opening themselves to another NHS Fife-type legal debacle if the dark forces of Sex Matters coalesce around a sexual harassment case, as they've threatened.

Both the principled or the self-interested politician would want to get this over with as soon as possible. Is there some angle other than burying your head in the sand where this makes sense? Am I missing something?