Analysis of human rights issues engaged by gender recognition reform
Dear Scottish Commission for Human Rights,
Please provide full details of the Commission's "analysis of the human rights issues engaged" referred to in the letter to Baroness Kishwer Falkner dated 11 February 2022.
https://www.scottishhumanrights.com/medi...
Please include copies of all assessments undertaken by the Commission which consider the impact of a regime for gender recognition based on self-declaration on different rights-holding groups, e.g. women, religious minorities and individuals with disabilities.
Yours faithfully,
L Mackenzie
Dear L Mackenzie,
Thank you for contacting the Scottish Human Rights Commission.
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Kind regards,
Tiia
Scottish Human Rights Commission
E: [Scottish Human Rights Commission request email]
www.scottishhumanrights.com
To: L Mackenzie < [FOI #837652 email]
23 March 2022
Dear L Mackenzie
FOI Request Reference: 115
Thank you for your recent request under the Freedom of Information
(Scotland) Act 2002, asking:
Your request
Please provide full details of the Commission's "analysis of the human
rights issues engaged" referred to in the letter to Baroness Kishwer
Falkner dated 11 February 2022.
[1]https://www.scottishhumanrights.com/medi...
Please include copies of all assessments undertaken by the Commission
which consider the impact of a regime for gender recognition based on
self-declaration on different rights-holding groups, e.g. women, religious
minorities and individuals with disabilities.
Our response
Our analysis is available in our submission to the Scottish Government’s
consultation on a Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, dated March
2020 and is available on our website:
[2]https://www.scottishhumanrights.com/medi...
Any future updates to this will also be published on our website.
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Yours sincerely
Scottish Human Rights Commission
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