Re your editorial (18 January) on the “constitutional battle” over Scotland’s gender recognition bill, I am no stranger to devolution and its intricate operations. And, as a principal architect of the Labour party’s 2019 general election manifesto compromise policy on the clash of rights arising between women and girls’ need for single-sex spaces and a more effective system of gender recognition, neither am I a stranger to the toxic arguments surrounding those debates.
“Demedicalisation” of the gender recognition process is intended to reduce the stigma attached to transgender people. Instead, in its proposed forms, it opens up the statutory route to a change of legal sex for all purposes to a much wider group of people.
