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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
National
Ross Hunter

Protest in public gallery causes significant delay to final gender reform debate

THE final debate on changes to gender recognition legislation has been severely disrupted after members of the public protested in the public gallery.

MSPs gathered to debate a whopping 153 amendments to the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill before the final vote is held on Wednesday.

Proceedings were almost immediately suspended after a motion submitted by the Scottish Conservatives, which sought to delay the vote under grounds that it had not been sufficiently consulted on, was not circulated to all MSPs.

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