BREAKING NEWS: Scottish Census officials have been told by the Equality and Human Rights Commission that requiring transgender people to accurately record their sex in the Census does not breach their right to privacy /1
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EHRC wrote to the head of NRS just days before we launched our Census legal challenge
"Where there is a requirement in statute, such as for the census, any potential interference with Article 8 [right to privacy] arising from collecting data on sex is likely to be justified” /2
"Where there is a requirement in statute, such as for the census, any potential interference with Article 8 [right to privacy] arising from collecting data on sex is likely to be justified” /2
Scottish Ministers pushed on regardless and will now have to defend their definition of sex in the Census in court on Wednesday /3
Scottish Trans Alliance has been given permission to act as a third-party intervener in support of the Scottish Government. They argue that requiring people to record their lawful sex "would breach trans people’s human rights to dignity and privacy.”
The EHRC disagrees /4
The EHRC disagrees /4
It should never have been necessary for this case to come to the Scottish Courts. The Scottish government paid a lobby group to lobby for the definition of sex in the census to be changed. The SG must now spend tax payers money to defend it in court /5
The government-funded lobby group then instructs a government-funded legal project to intervene in the court hearing to support the Scottish governments position /6
Meanwhile, it is left to ordinary women and public crowdfunding to hold the line on the law. We upheld the law in England and Wales last year. We will do the same in Scotland next week. /7
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