Sham Consultation By Scottish Ministers
On 9 March 2020 we met Scottish Government officials to discuss its consultation on reform of the Gender Recognition Act 2004. We wrote 2 days later, asking for a response on several substantial points, central to their plans. Earlier today, 2 March 2022, we received a response.
— MurrayBlackburnMackenzie (@mbmpolicy) March 2, 2022
Scottish Ministers - Misrepresenting the Law ()
On 15 February 2021 Scotland's Minister for Equalities, Christina McKelvie, made the following bold claim on her personal Twitter account:
"Sorry but TWAW is actually the law so no false equivalence at all."
But not only was this claim false and highly misleading - it came at a time when Scottish Ministers were consulting about possible reforms to the Gender Recognition Act.
So how could the Minister for Equalities possibly have been acting in good faith, if she was prepared to tweet such an ill-informed, fallacious view which was widely read and shared on social media?
To my mind this is powerful evidence of a Scottish Minister operating with a closed mind rather than an open one and of the Scottish Government acting in bad rather than good faith?