The constitutional row over Scotland's gender recognition reforms was entirely avoidable if both sides had been less combative'
The almighty constitutional row which has blown up over the Scottish Government's bill to change how trans people can gain a Gender Recognition Certificate and legally change their sex was entirely avoidable.
The Gender Recognition Reform Bill is not about independence or the union. It's about the lives of trans people who are seeking a simpler way in which to get their official documents, including their birth certificate, aligned with the gender they believe they are. That is, at least the Scottish Government's belief - and indeed is the argument of many trans people and campaigners.
Those concerns, dismissed at one point by Nicola Sturgeon as being "not valid", are now cited by the UK government as one of its reasons to block the bill. They believe that having two different processes in the UK to change legal sex could lead to "fraudulent" applications. So we now have a row about the UK government either undermining devolution and Scottish democracy, or using devolution legislation correctly to prevent over-reach by the Scottish Government - depending on your viewpoint.
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