I am generally out of touch with news – I’ve basically stopped looking for the sake of my mental health
So I got a nasty double shock when I received an email today from the Scottish Green Party’s Maggie Chapman (Equalities spokesperson) and Jen Bell (Co-convenor of the Rainbow Greens, the party’s LGBTQIA+ group):
1. Apparently, 12 days ago a Court of Session judge ruled that the UK government were entitled to use section 35 of the Scotland Act 1998 to overrule the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill on 17 January 😳
(The GRR had been on the verge of becoming law, after the Scottish Parliament voted 88–39 in favour of the Bill on 22 December last year)
2. The Scottish Government, who brought the Court of Session case against the UK government, have revealed today that they will not appeal the judge’s decision 😞
Instead they propose to keep the Bill in cryogenic stasis until such time as a trans-friendly UK government agrees to respect the Scottish Parliament’s democratic process
https://greens.scot/news/trans-rights-and-healthcare-must-be-delivered
#GenderRecognition #TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransHealthcare #trans #ScottishGreenParty #Section35 #ScottishGovernment