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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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Prevention of Domestic Abuse Bill
This is our submission to the Criminal Justice Committee call for views on the Prevention of Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Bill. The consultation closed on 15 September 2025. Q1. Notification...
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Withdrawal of children from Religious Education
This is our submission to the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee call for views on the the Children (Withdrawal from Religious Education and Amendment of UNCRC Incompatibility...
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Prostitution Bill
This is our submission to the Criminal Justice Committee call for views on the Prostitution (Offences and Support) (Scotland) Bill. The consultation closed on 05 September 2025. Q1. The...
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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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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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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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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...