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• LGBT+ (Scotland)

  Outrage as UK Tories attack Trans Rights and Scottish Devolution

  19 January 2023, by PICKEN Mike

  Across the British state, writes Mike Picken, there is a growing opposition to the Conservative UK government’s unprecedented blocking of a Scottish Parliament legislative Bill on transgender rights passed last month – the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill.
  After weeks of misleading (…)

• LGBT+ (Scotland)

  A statement from Scottish civil society organisations on the UK Government’s intervention on the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill

  17 January 2023, by Rape Crisis Scotland

  This week, the UK government announced their intention to block the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, which was recently passed overwhelmingly in the Scottish Parliament, from becoming law. We, the undersigned, wish to make clear our strong opposition to this intervention and to any (…)

• LGBT+ (Scotland)

  Trans Rights: Victory in Scotland but battle not over!

  23 December 2022, by GOODSPEED Ray

  Trans rights campaigners and their allies throughout the labour movement were delighted to receive a present before the Christmas holidays start – and a very welcome present it is, at a time of increasingly fierce attacks on trans people in the mainstream and social media, and a marked increase (…)