Scottish ministers have ditched their legal action against Westminster’s block on Holyrood’s gender recognition reform bill, while challenging a future Labour government to allow it to become law by lifting the veto.
Shirley-Anne Somerville, Holyrood’s social justice secretary, said that it was currently “impossible” to see a way forward for the bill, which was passed with cross-party support by the Scottish parliament last December and would have made Scotland the first country in the UK to introduce a self-identification system for people who want to change their legally recognised sex.
