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... sex-matters.org/posts/update... - ThreadSky

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forstater.bsky.social • 5 days ago

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...

https://sex-matters.org/posts/updates/the-scottish-government-should-take-action-to-protect-women-at-work/

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forstater.bsky.social•5 days ago

...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.

forstater.bsky.social•5 days ago

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.

https://t.co/m4er6LZYDm

forstater.bsky.social•5 days ago

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.

forstater.bsky.social•5 days ago

As many lawyers, such as Scott Wortley, pointed out, the relevant legislation for employers is the 1992 regulations and no such test applies.

forstater.bsky.social•5 days ago

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.

forstater.bsky.social•5 days ago

On Friday, the Equality and Human Rights Commission stepped in and wrote a sharp letter to Neil Gray, to the First Minister and to the head of NHS Scotland...

https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre/news/equality-regulator-engages-scottish-government-and-nhs-fife-regarding-staff

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