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

Scottish government faces legal action over failure to implement biological sex ruling

A demonstration over gender recognition reform in Scotland.
The move reflects ongoing frustration among gender-critical campaign groups. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

The Scottish government has been given a deadline to implement the UK supreme court’s ruling on biological sex across all public bodies or face further legal challenges.

Sex Matters, the UK-wide gender-critical campaign group, has threatened legal action in 14 days if ministers continue “intolerable” delays to new policies and guidance required by April’s landmark ruling that the legal definition of a woman in the Equality Act 2010 does not include transgender women who hold gender recognition certificates.

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