#section35 — Public Fediverse posts
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CW: Scottish politics, Section 35, trans rights 🏳️⚧️
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
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‘Bain argued that the UK government’s Scotland secretary, Alister Jack, made his “executive override” based on policy disagreement, and that if the UK government was successful then the minister “could veto practically any act of the Scottish parliament having an impact on reserved matters because he disagreed with it on policy grounds”.’
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#HumzaYousaf’s #government launch #legalchallenge to stop #Tories from blocking #GenderRecognitionAct #reforms.
The #Scottish #Government passed #laws making it easier for transgender people to #selfid in December but the #UK Government intervened to halt the proposals under #Section35
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This was #EmilyThornberry's excuse for not opposing the #Section35.
I get it that as a shadow minister she doesn't want to admit she was whipped and undermine the leadership, but making up some lie that the #GRRBill is some kind of cynical SNP "parliamentary theatre" being done against trans people's wishes and not a serious attempt at reform backed by both trans people and unionist parties in the parliament (including hers) is gaslighting. She should be ashamed of it.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/01/21/labour-mp-emily-thornberry-scotland-gender-bill/
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Vile from #DavidBlunkett, viler to watch #BBC panel openly cheering it. Even defends #MiriamCates' despicable, hateful speech as "perfectly reasonable"!
I'd forgotten just how reactionary he and so many New Labour figures were, including in his case trying to keep #Section28. What on earth is he doing advising #Labour now? Surely #Starmer didn't take advice from him on what line to take on #Section35 given his history?