No response from Stonewall or MSP Maggie Chapman on solution to the GRR (Scotland) Bill/GRA
On 13th January I emailed MSP Maggie Chapman a solution to the Gender Recognition Reform (Bill) asking for her feedback. I also sent it to Stonewall to forward it to Iain ‘Big Tent’ Anderson, chair of Stonewall. I included my reply to the unhelpful response from the representative of Mr Jack, Secretary of State for Scotland.
The solution is quite simple:
Replace the GRC with a DNIBS certificate that indicates that the holder Does Not Identify as his or her Birth Sex;
Include a second sex marker DNIBS (in addition to birth sex) on official documents where sex is relevant and necessary;
The person retains their birth sex
The GRA has been made redundant by the laws on same-sex marriage and civil partnerships. The GRA needs to change.
I know that both Maggie Chapman and Stonewall checked my LinkedIn profile, so presumably they read the attachments.
A response would have been polite, even to express disagreement. Perhaps they do not like an alternative that does not support the gaslighting fiction that a male observed at birth can become a biological female?
In my rebuttal to Alister Jack’s representative, I included the following:
With regard to the Equalities Act 2010 please can you and your colleagues sign the Sex-Matters’ petition?
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/623243
The Government must exercise its power under s.23 of the Gender Recognition Act to modify the operation of the Equality Act 2010 by specifying the terms sex, male, female, man & woman, in the operation of that law, mean biological sex and not "sex as modified by a Gender Recognition Certificate"
This would mean that the government could retain the Gaslighting GRA, and protect the rights of women, girls and the same-sex attracted via the clarified 2010 Equalities Act.
I wonder if they all signed?
The response from the Cabinet’s Equality Hub that I received on 7th February is also worrying:
As sex is immutable isn’t affirmation that a boy is a girl a form of conversion therapy?
As I am not on Twitter perhaps you could share it with @DalgetySusan, @HJoyceGender, @VictoriaPeckham to ask Iain Anderson and Maggie Chapman a few questions?