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Scotland launches radical ‘choose your own gender’ bill

Scotland launches radical ‘choose your own gender’ bill
ET staff writer
ET staff writer
04 April, 2022 2 min read

A proposed new law in Scotland will allow people to change their sex, based on nothing more than their own self-declaration.

The Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill has drawn criticism from women’s groups, who have threatened legal action.

There is widespread concern that a self-identification system would trample on the rights of women and render single-sex spaces meaningless.

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