Scottish government faces legal action over failure to implement biological sex ruling | Transgender
The Scottish government has been given a deadline for the British Supreme Court to implement a biological sex decision in all public institutions or to face more legal difficulties.
Sex issues, a gender-critical campaign group throughout the United Kingdom, threatened legal procedures if the ministers continued to delay in new policies and new policies that a woman’s legal definition of April 2010 did not include transgender women with gender recognition certificates.
The movement reflects the ongoing disappointment between the critical campaign groups in terms of gender, which has been described as a “extraordinary return için since the unanimous decision for women who brought the case of the Supreme Court of Appeals.
Politicians, LGBT+ rights groups and leading supporters He expressed concerns that the decision would lead to erosion of the rights, privacy and honor of trans people throughout England.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) Equality observer, many people in the society is said to have been effectively excluded from public areas, and a ban on a blanket using the toilets of the gender in which they lived shortly after bringing temporary recommendations increased.
The decision has a comprehensive impact on service providers, public institutions and businesses, EHRC consults a review rule that will currently provide a practical guide to implement.
However, the letter of sex issues says that the advisor is not “especially for public authorities – in the meantime to act illegally”. Sex issues intervened in the Supreme Court of Supreme Court against the Scotland against the Scottish Government through a law aimed at improving gender representation in public committees.
The founder of Sex Matters, Maya Forstater, said that the Supreme Court added that legal protection for trans people “does not turn into the right to use the opposite sex services” and that trans women use women’s toilets, shower and dressing rooms creates a hostile environment for women ”.
Sex issues are particularly concerned about the Scottish government’s guidance to schools, which encourages teaching personnel to offer flexible arrangements for young transsexual people and states that the use of toilet is ruled by the social congress rather than the law.
The good legal project, which challenges the temporary advice of EHRC next month, is the commission at the beginning of this week. seemed to be back In the first blanket position.
Last weekend, Susan Smith, Joint Director of Scotland for women, encouraged individuals to “press pressure on MSPs and MPs ve and used the fighting fund described by the author and activist JK Rowling to start their own actions.
Rowling said that the fund will not share any details or numbers about applications and investigations because it is not a donation collection charity, but a special fund and financing details are absolutely confidential ”.
A Scottish government spokesman said they would respond to the letter on time.
“The Scottish government was clear that we accepted the Supreme Court decision. We are reviewing the potentially affected policies, guidance and legislation.”
