U.K. Government Blocks New Scottish Transgender Legislation

The United Kingdom The Scottish government has been stopped from implementing a measure that would have regulated how people in Scotland can change their gender.

Alister Jack, Scottish Secretary said Monday, the U.K. government announced that they would not allow the Scottish legislation to be passed.

Oral statement Jack pointed out to parliament Tuesday that the bill would allow someone to apply for employment in a new manner. “legal gender recognition in Scotland.” It would lower a person’s age to apply for a Gender Recognition Certificate. The person also no longer needs to be diagnosed by a doctor. “for two years in their acquired gender.”

Jack claimed he was creating an ordering system “under section 35 of the Scotland Act 1998 preventing the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill from proceeding to Royal Assent.”

He claimed that the government “believes however that transgender people deserve our respect, our support and our understanding,” But he made the decision to place the order “is centred [sic] on the legislation’s consequences for the operation of reserved matters, including equality legislation across Scotland, England and Wales.”

The Scottish government proposed the new guidelines. said, “We think that trans people should not have to go through a process that can be demeaning, intrusive, distressing and stressful in order to be legally recognized in their lived gender.”

Jack said that Jack would support the bill. “have a serious adverse impact, among other things, on the operation of the Equality Act 2010.” He said that the negative aspects of single-sex clubs, schools and groups, as well as safeguards such as equal pay, are some of the most problematic.

He stated that the government is concerned about the potential impact of the legislation on girls and women as well as other organizations.

Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon has noted There were “no grounds” for the U.K. government to not allow it to go through, making the argument that it didn’t impact the Equality Act.

Sturgeon told Jack was doing a BBC “profound mistake” He claimed that he was starting a new business. “direct attack on the institution of the Scottish Parliament.” Sturgeon observed that this would “inevitably end up in court” That the government of Scotland would “vigorously defend this legislation.”

“In doing so we will be vigorously defending something else, and that is the institution of the Scottish Parliament and the ability of MSPs, democratically elected, to legislate in areas of our competence,” Sturgeon stated. “In short, we’ll be defending Scottish democracy.”

The U.K. government not Since 1999, when the Scottish Parliament was founded, this has been a step that I have never taken before.