Gender

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Scottish Lesbians, joined by The Lesbian Project, LGB Alliance and members of Lesbian Labour, have been granted permission to submit a written intervention in the forthcoming Supreme Court appeal brought by For Women Scotland on the Gender Recognition Act and its interplay with the Equality Act.&nb

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Next steps to address violence against women and girls, including measures to combat culturally specific forms of violence, have been unveiled. The latest Equally Safe Delivery Plan – developed in partnership with COSLA – focuses on prevention of abuse across Scotland’s communities

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Legislation to amend the Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Act 2018 has been passed by the Scottish Parliament. The Act, which was passed by the Scottish Parliament in 2018, sets an objective that 50 per cent of a public board’s non-executive members should be women.

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A Lord Ordinary has ruled that the UK government acted lawfully in vetoing the Scottish Parliament’s Gender Recognition Reform Bill from receiving lawful assent, after a legal challenge to the block was brought by the Scottish Ministers. It was argued for the petitioners that the preconditions

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Legislation to amend the Gender Representation on Public Boards Act has been published. The Act, which was passed by the Scottish Parliament in 2018, aims to address the under-representation of women in public life by setting an objective that 50 per cent of a public board’s non-executive memb

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Joanna Cherry KC has revealed she was ready to pursue legal action against the SNP after some of her Westminster colleagues attempted to prevent her from addressing a gender-critical charity's conference. During a talk at the Fringe, the advocate and MP expressed her belief that First Minister Humza

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Dr Michael Foran responds to a critique of his commentary on some upcoming cases. Robin White has kindly offered a response to a recent article I wrote about two upcoming cases concerning the meaning of sex within the Equality Act. I welcome the caution concerning the dangers of analysing the law fr

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Russia is to prohibit all forms of gender transition, with allies of President Putin arguing the move is necessary to safeguard the nation against "western anti-family ideology". A bill approved in its initial reading by lawmakers in the Duma will forbid “medical interventions aimed at changin

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My previous two opinion pieces about the damaging delay to Scottish gender recognition reform, and the media’s portrayal of it, were underpinned factually by the relevant parts of the Equality Act. Given the ongoing widescale coverage of gender recognition reform, and trans rights, it might be

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The UK government has availed itself of section 35 of the Scotland Act to stop Holyrood's Gender Recognition Reform Bill from receiving Royal Assent. Scottish Secretary Alister Jack said he would use section 35 following a review of the bill by UK government lawyers. UK ministers are concerned the b

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