"A senior judge has granted Scottish Trans permission to act as third-party ‘public interest interveners’, which means that they can submit written evidence to the court about why they believe that the UK Government’s reasons for blocking the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill are wrong or inadequate."

#ScotPol #Trans #Section35

https://www.scottishtrans.org/scottish-trans-joins-legal-challenge-to-uk-governments-veto-of-gender-recognition-reform-scotland-bill/

👉 New post! ✨New look!*

It’s been a while, and this one covers a lot:

#CivilPartnership #GRAReform #LGBAlliance #Pride #Section35 #transphobia

*I know there are teething problems – please let me know of any accessibility issues in particular!

https://transponderings.blog/2023/07/08/schrodingers-legal-sex/

Let's keep this #Section35 #petition moving:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/638527

There's not a lot of reach here, so if you're in the UK consider sharing it among your local #SNP or #Green party or #Union group.

In fact even if you're a #Labour supporter and reject #Scottish #independence, you should be wary of letting a Tory government exercise power so unaccountably against the democratic #devolution arrangement Labour set up.

Section 35 of the Scotland Act 1998 shows UK devolution to be a nonsense, and Scotland a vassal of England.

In the absence of Scottish independence, the offending clause should be be repealed so that Scotland can make decisions on devolved matters without fear of an English veto.

Please sign this petition.

#Scotland #Section35 #devolution

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/638527

"If the Scottish Government is] going to just abandon something like this that was worked on for five or six years of consultation and spent nine months going through Parliament then they would literally just be accepting devolution was over.”

Dr Philippa Whitford MP on BBC Radio Scotland, 13/4/23.

#GRRBill
#Section35
#DefendDemocracy

protect trans rights & defend scottish democracy as it challenges westminster's attempt to block gender recognition reform. sign & share this petition: https://greens.scot/NoSection35
#noSection35 #scotland #section35 #grr #transRightsAreHumanRights #transRights

Another exciting day to be Métis in Ontario!
https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/alberta-saskatchewan-and-ontario-m%C3%A9tis-sign-self-government-deal-1.6287902
#Metis #SelfGovernment #Indigenous #section35
also: https://www.metisnation.org/news/canada-and-metis-nation-of-ontario-sign-updated-metis-self-government-agreement/

On this day in 1988 the “#Lesbian Avengers” abseiled into the House of Lords to protest the enactment of #Section28 which banned the discussion of #homosexuality in schools.

We need more of this energy today.

The image is of activists slapping a commemorative plaque (modelled on the official English Heritage plaques) on the House of Lords in 2017 to mark the occasion (The Lords took it back down of course).

#QueerHistory #LGBTQ #History #Section35 #ThrowbackThursday

#Trans & #NonBinary people and allies in Liverpool protested against #Section35, the UK govs attack on Scotlands gender reform bill. As an NB I wanted to photograph protestors to show the diverse community standing against the gov. #TransRights

https://petecarr.net/blog/portraits-from-liverpool-protest-against-section-35/

Yeah, this might've held a bit more water before he waved through their #Section35. Not so much now. #Starmer

Yeah, this might've held water before he waved through their #Section35, but not so much now. #Starmer

The media is trying to play a recent case in the Scottish courts into a reason for using #section35 powers against the #GRRBill There’s a lot of commentary about amendments which were voted down. I listened to this debate. The reason for voting them down was that every #trans prisoner in Scotland is already placed according to a risk assessment which considers their crime. It’s a lot of noise about nothing.

This was #EmilyThornberry's excuse for not opposing the #Section35.

I get it that as a shadow minister she doesn't want to admit she was whipped and undermine the leadership, but making up some lie that the #GRRBill is some kind of cynical SNP "parliamentary theatre" being done against trans people's wishes and not a serious attempt at reform backed by both trans people and unionist parties in the parliament (including hers) is gaslighting. She should be ashamed of it.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/01/21/labour-mp-emily-thornberry-scotland-gender-bill/

Vile from #DavidBlunkett, viler to watch #BBC panel openly cheering it. Even defends #MiriamCates' despicable, hateful speech as "perfectly reasonable"!

I'd forgotten just how reactionary he and so many New Labour figures were, including in his case trying to keep #Section28. What on earth is he doing advising #Labour now? Surely #Starmer didn't take advice from him on what line to take on #Section35 given his history?

https://nitter.it/jrc1921/status/1618225373325688833

#Transphobia

With today's far reaching social media and Internet widely available. Any attempt to reintroduce legislation similar (or worse than) section 28 would be unenforceable without major government interference in controlling access to the Internet.

#Section28
#section35

"Reverse the decision to block the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill" https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/631561

#LGBT #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Section35 #GRR

Almost every single time there's a trans rights protest, the bigot press are able to ignore the whole thing and instead attack it and any politicians who support or attend it as "extremist" solely because of a tiny few attendees displaying violent slogans such as "kill TERFs" who are not immediately ejected.

Tolerating one single violent slogan at your trans rights protest is directly undermining anything positive you might hope to achieve.

#Transphobia #Section35 #GenderRecognition

Went on the Birdsite briefly and saw hundreds of inspiring photos from protests in London and Glasgow today for #TransRights and against the use #Section35 - love to see people protecting our trans comrades and Scottish democracy!! :blobcattrans:

You know we can't have a referendum unless WM lets us?

Well, now it seems we can't pass a bill without WM's approval. The GRR bill's proposed changes will scarcely be the first point of law that differs in Scotland; that's the point of devolution, isn't it?

So WM could have issued the usual Section 104, to accommodate the differences. So why issue a #Section35 now? Why this bill?

Was this for anything other than political flexing & anti-trans prejudice?

ITV defends This Morning gender debate with zero trans people https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/01/19/itv-this-morning-trans-gender-recognition/
#Section35 #Transphobia