A HOLYROOD committee has backed legislation to make it easier for transgender people to be legally recognised as their preferred gender.
A majority of MSPs on the equalities, human rights and civil justice committee of the Scottish Parliament recommended that the general principles of the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill should be approved.
Committee convener Joe FitzPatrick said: “We believe these important reforms will improve the lives and experiences of trans people.”
Professor MARY DAVIS argues that feminism has been hollowed out by liberal co-option – and only a revival of socialist, class-based politics can restore International Working Women’s Day’s original, radical purpose
WILL PODMORE welcomes the case put by a feminist, disentangling the abusive rhetoric of the trans rights debate
Susan Galloway talks to ASH REGAN MSP about her “Unbuyable” Bill, seeking to tackle the commercial sexual exploitation of women in Scotland


