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Witchcraft Convictions (Pardons) Bill
The following is our submission on 15 September 2022 to the consultation on the proposed Witchcraft Convictions (Pardons) (Scotland) Bill. We are pleased to see that the paper recognises...
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Letter to Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills
We sent the following letter to Shirley-Anne Somerville (Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills) and Clare Haughey (Minister for Children and Young People) on 31st August 2022 regarding single-sex...
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JK Rowling and the Twitter Trolls
When Troubled Blood, the fifth instalment in Robert Galbraith/JK Rowling’s Strike series, was released two years ago, it provoked a deluge of weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth from...
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Equality Act Single-Sex Exceptions
This is the second of two letters we sent to the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee on 30 August 2022. The first one on the impact of...
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Impact of Second Judicial Review
This is the first of two letters we sent to the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee on 30 August 2022. The second one on comments made by...
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Open Democracy
We like talking about our work and will happily engage with most journalists, but when we receive such a bizarre, loaded and accusatory question set as this from Open...
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Medical Diagnosis is Best Practice
Far from being outdated and behind international best practice as argued by Scottish Trans Alliance, a High Court decision in Northern Ireland only last year held that the requirement for a...
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Judicial Review 2
Following our successful appeal on the redefinition of ‘woman’ in the Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Act 2018, the Inner House declared on 22 March 2022 that: While...
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Press Conference: Protecting Female Sports
The Scottish Parliament is currently considering legislation that will allow anyone over the age of 16 to change their sex in law. So any man who says he identifies...
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Schools must provide single-sex toilets
As reported in the Times we wrote to all 32 local councils across Scotland on 10 June 2022 requesting they review school buildings and policies to ensure single-sex toilets...