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ECNI – the implications of For Women Scotland in Northern Ireland
Following the UK Supreme Court judgment, the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland considers that there is some legal uncertainty as to whether the interpretation of sex as a biological...
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School guidance – third time lucky?
The first edition of Supporting Transgender Young People: Guidance for Schools in Scotland was published in 2017 by LGBT Youth Scotland. Two years later, the Scottish Government announced that...
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FWS v Scottish Ministers III
As reported in The Times, For Women Scotland suing ministers for failure to abide by gender ruling, we have lodged a summons in the Court of Session which was...
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On Poor Jokes, Guilt by Association, and Human Rights
There have been many shameful moments in the Sandie Peggie tribunal, not least hearing from the doctors and nurses who cheerfully queued up to trash their professional reputations and...
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Employment tribunal intervention – Peggie
We asked for permission to intervene in the employment tribunal of Sandie Peggie v NHS Fife and Dr Beth Upton. The Tribunal has now confirmed that neither the claimant...
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UK Supreme Court – the judgment
Judgment was handed down by the UK Supreme Court on Wednesday 16th April on For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers on the effect of the Gender Recognition Act...
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UK Supreme Court – the hearing
Speaking Notes Aidan O’Neill KC has kindly given permission to publish his speaking notes. It is important to understand that these are the notes of what he hoped to...
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UK Supreme Court – written cases
Ahead of our appeal being heard in the UK Supreme Court on 26 – 27th November 2024 we are now able to publish our written submission to the court....
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Rape Crisis Centres – by women and for women?
The following report is also available to view/download as a PDF. The rape crisis support network is in crisis. Barely two weeks after Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre (ERCC) apologised...
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What’s Happening in Your Child’s School?
Report 1: What’s Happening in Your Child’s Classroom? SummaryThe number of children presenting with gender distress in Scotland has soared over the last decade, particularly since 2017 when many...
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Demonstration: Women Won’t Wait
By the 4th of September it will be 20 weeks since the UK Supreme Court handed down its judgment that ‘sex’ in the Equality Act takes its biological meaning,...
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EHRC Code of Practice 2025
This is our submission to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) consultation on the update to the Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations following the Supreme Court...
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Letter to Permanent Secretary
Since our UK Supreme Court judgment in April there has been almost ten weeks of prevaricating by the Scottish Government and little, if anything, by way of action to...
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Police Scotland: Review of Sex and Gender Data Recording
This is our submission to the Police Scotland consultation on its review of sex and gender data recording. The consultation closed on 22 June 2025. Police Scotland proposes to adopt the...