Sturgeon knows exactly what she’s doing, she knows they won’t win and that it will be red meat to her independence obsessives.
In case you’re wondering his reasoning for making this assertion is essentially: “Trust me bro”
No details as to *why* exactly this legal challenge has no merit, just the confident assertion that it has no merit and shouldn’t be pursued.
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The SNP were warned many, many times over a period years by legal experts and women’s rights campaigners that this legislation was ill-conceived and incompatible with the Equality Act. Either they really are so dim that they believed their own propaganda that any opposition must only be a smokescreen for bigotry, or they know that’s nonsense and have decided to use trans people as a political football to further their nationalist aims. Maybe a bit of both.
It should be noted uk accommodates similar self ids from other countries
> The Equality Act 2010, and not the GRA, set out the legal arrangements for how single-sex spaces and services operate, and changes to the GRA will not affect these.
>The Equality Act 2010 starts from the position that trans people, with or without gender recognition certificates, can access services and spaces which align with their gender. Trans women can use female-only spaces and services, and trans men can use male-only spaces and services. However, there are exceptions which allow single-sex services to treat trans people less favourably than other people if their particular circumstances mean that’s necessary and proportionate. A service provider can exclude any person (trans or not) if they behave badly.
>These arrangements also apply to single-sex services such as prisons, gender based violence services such as domestic abuse refuges, and single-sex wards. There are nothing in the Scottish Government proposals that would change this.
> Agreed – extremely cynical how the SNP are using trans people as a political weapon and football for their Indy agenda
/u/Solidus27 – I can’t reply cause top level guy has me blocked, apparently. But how is the SNP using trans people as a political weapon any more than the Tories repeatedly do.
The GRC reforms have been in progress for *years*. They weren’t an indy issue before the tories decided trans issues were their perpetual culture war dead cat. There was cross-party support for it.
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Sturgeon knows exactly what she’s doing, she knows they won’t win and that it will be red meat to her independence obsessives.
In case you’re wondering his reasoning for making this assertion is essentially: “Trust me bro”
No details as to *why* exactly this legal challenge has no merit, just the confident assertion that it has no merit and shouldn’t be pursued.
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The SNP were warned many, many times over a period years by legal experts and women’s rights campaigners that this legislation was ill-conceived and incompatible with the Equality Act. Either they really are so dim that they believed their own propaganda that any opposition must only be a smokescreen for bigotry, or they know that’s nonsense and have decided to use trans people as a political football to further their nationalist aims. Maybe a bit of both.
https://twitter.com/mbmpolicy/status/1615010394896056322
It should be noted uk accommodates similar self ids from other countries
> The Equality Act 2010, and not the GRA, set out the legal arrangements for how single-sex spaces and services operate, and changes to the GRA will not affect these.
>The Equality Act 2010 starts from the position that trans people, with or without gender recognition certificates, can access services and spaces which align with their gender. Trans women can use female-only spaces and services, and trans men can use male-only spaces and services. However, there are exceptions which allow single-sex services to treat trans people less favourably than other people if their particular circumstances mean that’s necessary and proportionate. A service provider can exclude any person (trans or not) if they behave badly.
>These arrangements also apply to single-sex services such as prisons, gender based violence services such as domestic abuse refuges, and single-sex wards. There are nothing in the Scottish Government proposals that would change this.
https://www.scottishtrans.org/our-work/gender-recognition-act-reform-2022/gra-faq/
> Agreed – extremely cynical how the SNP are using trans people as a political weapon and football for their Indy agenda
/u/Solidus27 – I can’t reply cause top level guy has me blocked, apparently. But how is the SNP using trans people as a political weapon any more than the Tories repeatedly do.
The GRC reforms have been in progress for *years*. They weren’t an indy issue before the tories decided trans issues were their perpetual culture war dead cat. There was cross-party support for it.