Scottish Government to take on FWS in new trans court fight

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The Scottish Government has confirmed it will challenge For Women Scotland’s legal bid to remove guidance that allows male-born prisoners to be housed with women and permits transgender pupils to use single-sex facilities and sports in line with their gender identity.

The group’s summons, served on Scottish Ministers, the Lord Advocate and the Advocate General, was formally called by the Court of Session on September 10 after ministers failed to withdraw the policies within the 21-day deadline. Government lawyers have now confirmed they will appear in court to defend the guidance

Full article here https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25465315.scottish-government-take-fws-new-trans-court-fight/

And here https://archive.is/X1wxO

Cant work out if this is the same story or a related one
Fury at ‘Nicola Sturgeon crony’ lined up to review gender self-ID
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5409575-fury-at-nicola-sturgeon-crony-lined-up-to-review-gender-self-id

Same here but the silver lining to this is we can expect the hearing and judgement to come right before the Scottish election so it should help get rid of the snp

I’m concerned the court will perceive just enough wiggle room that this will have to go all the way up to the top again.

Meanwhile organisations will be “awaiting the outcome” of this before changing their own policies.

That's just it, isn't it? There will forever more be another legal challenge - or the intention of it - which will mean no-one can possibly change their policies until it's been decided

I can’t possibly imagine the grounds in which the Scottish govt think they can possibly challenge this.

Do they just really really hate women (particularly those in prison), or is there some extremely juicy Kompromat floating around that ensures their co operation in this matter?

Hate my government. What the eff is wrong with them????

Yes - they use our taxes to try to undermine us and then we have to donate to organisations willing to stand up for us. They really, really hate women.

Baffling. It's almost like they don't want there to be any money life for school, hospitals, social care and the like. .

I hate my government as well

money could be spent on so much more than this petty women hating stuff

There are some people who are aiming at achieving this, I suspect. The Scottish government may be a Trojan horse.

Is there any point in writing to anyone on this you do you think? To say as a Scottish taxpayer I do not consent to my money being pissed up the wall on a legal case that will be lost when public services are in a dreadful state and there's apparently no money to fix them? And this coming after all the money spent on losing the original case against FWS, not to mention NHS Fife v Sandie Peggie. FFS

I feel like it's beyond the point of writing about it tbh. They've burned all bridges. And it's not just this, it's everything. I'm totally politically homeless now.

At what point does flatly disobeying law while in public office become the criminal offence of malfeasance in public office?

Has there been a particular incident that has precipitated this action.
Has there been an exchange of letters and a refusal somewhere?

I haven't a clue how I'm going to vote in May.

Greens - actually evil and apart from that, shite on environmental stuff. I'd rather vote for the 'We Love Satan' Party

Lib Dems - apart from the 'did it all for Beth' and Christine Jardine crap, it's basically the 'Tory Lite' option for high earners who agree with Tory policies and who can't quite bring themselves to vote for Labour. They can preen their social progressiveness while not actually having to lose anything.

SNP - eh, no. Absolutely shite. Captured and incompetent.

Labour - craven and unprincipled. With very few exceptions, will obey a whip without question, even on things which are clearly wrong.

Conservatives - have been far and away the best on the self ID issue but I can't agree on their policies.

Alba - never going to get anywhere.

Others - too mad or too right wing for me.

Unless the principled, unafraid to face criticism MSP's from all parties unite to form their own cross party party, we're fucked.

In reality the Uk parliament could at any time revoke all powers devolved to our nations, which i would not support.

No, there would have to be a referendum, according to the Scotland Act.

@Waitwhat23 my MSP is great and I will vote for her, but I feel your pain. I spoilt my ballot in the Westminster election (and on the doorstep I told my SNP candidate and Labour rep exactly what I thought of their anti-women policies).

I bet you have some right weird opinions

Is ScotGov planning to argue that the SC ruling does not apply to prisons and schools, because they are governed by enactments outwith EA2010? They are risking spreading the SC interpretation of sex all around the statute book, which would be great!

At what point would this become contempt of court? Failing to follow orders of a court, no less the highest court in the land.

Ooh, this sounds like a good plan. Hopefully this will end with all perceived gaps being stopped up.

The Scottish government can’t possibly have a compelling legal argument to allow men in women’s spaces in either schools or prisons so they will just lose and create useful confirmation of the law.

Let's hope that all this lovely sunlight shows everyone what is going on.