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Policy Capture" in relation to trans Self-ID, and Women's Rights in Scotland. It's happening in E&W as well. 1/

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A very important piece of research by @KathMurray1 and @LucyHunterB

Labour Party policy on EA2010, and the way it was adopted with no debate, is part of what is described. 2/

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"Over recent years policies that represent a profound conceptual change in our understanding about what it means to be a woman... 3/

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....have been introduced in Scotland without due diligence, democratic oversight or scrutiny." 4/

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"The paper argues that the unregulated roll-out of gender self-identification in Scotland has happened with inadequate scrutiny.... 5/
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...and without due process, and that this can be explained in terms of policy capture" (OECD 2017) 6/
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OECD (2017). Preventing Policy Capture: Integrity in Public Decision Making. OECDPublic Governance Reviews.OECD Publishing, Paris. 7/
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"....whereby decision-making on sex and gender identity issues has been directed towards the interests of a specific interest group, without due regard for other affected groups or the wider population." 8/

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"While presented as inclusive and progressive, the analysis shows that policy capture on gender identity has undermined the rights and interests of women." 9/
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"In practice, many organisations and service-providers within Scotland already operate on the basis of gender self-identification, thereby ignoring the protections based on sex available in the Equality Act." 10/

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Please take note of this important research!

Many women are very distressed, angry and perplexed to be treated like this by the party they want in other respects to support 11/

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