Tag: Equality Act
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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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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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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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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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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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City of Edinburgh Council Meeting
Scottish Green councillor Alex Staniforth tabled the following motion to be discussed at the council meeting on Thursday 20th March regarding Edinburgh Women’s Aid (EWA) and the single sex...
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Operation of the PSED in Scotland
This is our submission to the Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee call for views on its inquiry into the operation of the Public Sector Equality Duty in...
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Another letter to First Minister
After writing to the First Minister a week ago we had hoped Mr Swinney would be more on top of his brief regarding women’s rights to single-sex spaces. However,...
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Letter to Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills
The Herald article Schools could face Sandie Peggie-style legal dispute highlighted our comments that local authorities that fail to uphold the School Premises Regulations on separate sex facilities for...
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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...