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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent

Cross-party MSPs aim to ease concerns over gender recognition bill

Holyrood
Two senior UN officials have intervened in the Holyrood bill. Photograph: Jane Barlow/PA

A cross-party group of MSPs has tabled amendments to Scottish government plans to streamline how transgender people change their legal sex, in order to address concerns about abusive males taking advantage of the new system.

The moves come days before a parliamentary vote on the bill, and as a UN expert on gender identity warned that attempts to postpone or weaken it could be based on “unfounded negative stereotypes about trans women as violent or predatory”.

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