#Holyrood2021 manifesto commitments to LGBT rights as they are published: [THREAD]
Up first, the @scottishgreens, who have focused on inclusive education, reforming the GRA, better trans healthcare and a ban on 'conversion therapy'.👍 greens.scot/ourfuture/equa…
SNP manifesto on LGBT rights is lighter on detail. No concrete proposals on what GRA reform looks like, and no reference any more to 'international best practice'. There are however promises on inclusive education and on supporting Westminster in banning conversion therapy.
Worth noting that there have been two consultations on GRA reform so far. Of what we know from the results, there was majority support for self-ID and non-binary recognition. This reads like the SNP plan to take the whole process back to the start AGAIN. #SNPMANIFESTO
Alex Salmond is now claiming that ALBA candidate Margaret Lynch did not, in fact, make any claims about LGBT organisations trying to lower the age of consent. There's just three small problems with that:
Firstly, multiple separate people who were attending the conference tweeted about it, then deleted afterwards when things kicked off. Unfortunately for them, people were quick to screenshot...