Another Angry WomanFatal miscalculation by central government in assuming there is a single soul in Scotland who hates trans people more than they hate the English.
The UK is formed of 4 countries: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The latter 3 are not 100% willing in this union, to put it politely, and all have good historical reasons to be resentful and want independence. To stave off any huge protests, the compromise is these countries have devolved governments who pass laws for their countries, with central government located in England ("Westminster").
There is a veto option for the devolved governments. If Westminster doesn't like something the devolved governments are doing, they can refuse to submit it for royal assent (rubber stamping by the monarch, because this country is fucking stupid). This doesn't happen in practice, because the devolved governments are the compromise, the gesture from Westminster to stop them actually trying to leave the union.
In the entire history of the devolved Scottish government, central government have not vetoed any law. Central government knows vetoing would ignite calls for independence, and people taking action for it. This would happen regardless of the issue, even something as banal as road signage. So they don't veto... until now, because Rishi Sunak apparently doesn't understand why the veto is never used and has picked this stupid hill to die on.
In this context, what I suspect will happen is the entire "trans debate" gets put aside and subsumed into a culture war as to whether or not Westminster needs to wind its fucking neck in, because it really would have been just as inflammatory had Westminster chosen a duller fight to pick, like something about what information goes on food labels
Ste Cook@stavvers I do - very much - hope he does die on it. Ideally literally, but I’ll settle for metaphorically.
Foodiesaurus Regina@stavvers and if Scotland leaves and rejoins the EU, so too will Northern Ireland leave and unify with Ireland. That just leaves England and Wales. Russian mission accomplished.
@stavvers also, as a quick aside, Star Trek predicted Irish unification in 2024. That may not be far off what is to come.
John Deans@stavvers and when Westminster inevitably puts (back?) on the table a similar law in a couple of years, that's at least as difficult a moment for the Union as this one (particularly if it's still – somehow – a Tory government doing it).
Kevin Karhan 
Faye Goth@stavvers they really call your governments "devolved"? And you just ... Take that?
APT Ate My HomeworkThey really train y'all at birth to be okay with constantly refered to as lower or beneath English people.
No wonder my ancestors let themselves be deported.
Tonya Marie 🏳️⚧️@Gothfarts
I think you might be overemphasizing the "de-evolution" type of meaning for "devolved". I believe that in UK usage, the definition given by @http_error_418 doesn't come with any baggage, it is simply a word that means "delegated to the next level down of bureaucracy"
@TonyaMarie @http_error_418 @stavvers
I think I can see why my ancestors got fed up arguing with people like you and let themselves get deported from their own land.
@TonyaMarie @http_error_418 @stavvers
I don't even know what the point of your post is when I don't hold anything over you, unlike England. I just noticed something was off and commented. 🐢💯
ClauClauClaudia
I know what evolution and devolution and even, revolution means. I also know what revelation means.
Hope you have one.
Charlie StrossMinor point: the veto power was intended specifically for situations where a devolved parliament passed legislation that adversely affected a reserved issue, eg. voting to give themselves moar sovereignty.
Using it on GRCs is massive overkill. They claim the GRC bill will interfere with the Equalities Act, but there are already gender-based incompatibilities between Scottish and English law insofar as marriage law differs ...
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