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

Scottish plans to include transgender women in equality law tested in court

People carrying trans rights banners at the Glasgow Pride  parade in 2017
People carrying trans rights banners at the Glasgow Pride parade in 2017. Photograph: David Cheskin/PA

The Scottish government is facing a judicial review over plans to include transgender women in legislation aimed at improving gender balance on public boards.

Aidan O’Neill KC, for the campaign group For Women Scotland, said the court of session’s ruling would have significant implications for the protection of single-sex spaces across the UK, as well as proposals to simplify how transgender people can alter their birth certificate currently being debated by the Scottish parliament.

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