UK ministers set to resort to never-before-used legal powers to HALT SNP’s gender law, putting Westminster and Holyrood on constitutional collision course as Sturgeon vows to push through allowing 16-year-olds to transition without parental consent
The Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill was passed yesterday to jeers of ‘shame on you’ in Holyrood.
The Scottish Parliament voted to let trans people self-identify without a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria. And the legislation lowers from 18 to 16 the minimum age that Scots can legally change gender.
It also slashes the timescale for adults obtaining a gender recognition certificate from two years to just three months. The vote puts MSPs on a constitutional collision course with Westminster as UK ministers consider the ‘nuclear option’ of stopping the bill from going for royal assent.