Good afternoon,

I acknowledge receipt of your Freedom of Information request, dated Friday
17 June 2022.

sportscotland will respond on or before Friday 15 July 2022.

Kind regards

_______________________________________________________________
Andrew Shaw | Legal Officer | sportscotland
Doges | Templeton on the Green | 62 Templeton Street | Glasgow | G40 1DA

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Good afternoon,

Sportscotland received your FOI request and has provided a response,
detailed below:-

Please provide copies of any guidance or other resources that
sportscotland has published on how grassroots and amateur sports clubs and
associations should approach transgender inclusion. Please provide copies
of advice provided to such groups and associations regarding their
responsibilities in relation to Section 22 of the Gender Recognition Act
2004.

Some of this information is otherwise accessible and therefore is exempt
from disclosure in accordance with sections 25(1) and 25(3)(a)(i) of the
Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.  Sportscotland is therefore
refusing to respond to part of the request, in accordance with section
16(1) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. 

In our duty to advise and assist however, for ease, sportscotland has
provided the links below:-

• Sports Council Equality Group website – documents relating to the
September, 2021 guidance -
[1]https://equalityinsport.org/resources/in... . Please note that
sportscotland holds previous guidance from 2015, but this information
is not currently published.
• Sportscotland website - information on gender reassignment

◦ [2]https://sportscotland.org.uk/equality-di...
◦ [3]https://sportscotland.org.uk/about-us/eq...

• Sportscotland website – please use the search bar to search for key
terms (e.g. transgender) and further information will be provided.

For information, sportscotland does not have a stand alone policy on
transgender provision within facilities. The guidance we provide is about
ensuring facilities are inclusive and where facility providers may have
specific concerns, they have access to a network of partners with
expertise as well as resources to provide the relevant and appropriate
guidance at a local level.

Finally, sportscotland has not produced specific advice relating to
section 22 of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 for clubs and associations
regarding transgender inclusion in sport.  Therefore, sportscotland does
not hold this information, in accordance with section 17(1) of the Freedom
of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (information not held).

To help us, we would be grateful if you could acknowledge receipt of this
response for our records. If you are not satisfied with our response, you
are entitled to ask us to review our decision. You must make this request
within 40 working days of the date of this response, explaining why you
think we should carry out a review, stating the information request to
which this review relates, and the name and address of the applicant for
correspondence. Review requests should be sent to Head of Finance,
sportscotland, Doges, Templeton on the Green, 62 Templeton Street,
Glasgow, G40 1DA. Further information on our Freedom of Information
procedures can be found on sportscotland’s website under the Freedom of
Information section at the end of the home page. You will receive the
outcome of the Review Request within 20 working days of receipt of your
request for sportscotland to carry out a review.

If you are still dissatisfied with the outcome of your Review Request, you
subsequently have the right to apply to the Scottish Information
Commissioner for a decision either in writing or online. Further details
on this process are available on the Commissioner’s website:
[4]www.itspublicknowledge.info. An online appeal may be made to the
Scottish Information Commissioner by following this link
[5]www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appeal.

Scottish Information Commissioner’s Details:

Address: Scottish Information Commissioner, Kinburn Castle, Doubledykes
Road, St Andrews, KY16 9DS.

Email: [6][email address]

Telephone: 01334 464610

Kind regards,

Jennifer

Jennifer Edmonstone | Senior Legal Officer | sportscotland
Doges | Templeton on the Green | 62 Templeton Street | Glasgow | G40 1DA

t: 0141 534 1175| m: 07817 288 763
w: [7]www.sportscotland.org.uk

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