What started with one woman standing her ground and saying “No” has already led to questions in the Scottish Parliament, and a turn-around in position by the Scottish Labour party, and involvement of the national equality watchdog.
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On Tuesday, Sex Matters, along with Murray Blackburn Mackenzie, For Women Scotland and Fair Play For Women, wrote to Neil Gray MSP, the Scottish government’s Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care...
...calling on him to make an urgent statement supporting the right of women and men working in the NHS to suitable separate-sex facilities, and to instruct the Chief Executive of NHS Scotland to bring its policies back into line with the law.
We drew his attention to NHS Scotland’s Workforce gender transitioning guide, which fails to mention the legal requirement of the 1992 workplace regulations requiring employers to provide separate-sex facilities.
On Thursday, the Scottish First Minister stood up in Parliament, and said he is sticking by guidance. He defended NHS Scotland’s guidance to take a “case-by-case” approach to deciding that some men are allowed to undress in women’s changing rooms.
The First Minister claimed that the law is “crystal clear” but also that it would be unlawful of him to talk about the Scottish Government's position on the definition of sex because of the ongoing For Women Scotland case.
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