(The Critic, 30 Dec 2021)
After a year of progress, “conversion therapy ban” law threatens to resurrect bad gender policy all over again.
At the end of 2021, the debate on sex and gender and the conflict with women’s rights feels very different, at least in the UK, from the way it felt at the end of 2019. There have been a series of legal wins and cultural shifts. People are finding a voice and wrenching the discussion back to reality. […] This year I co-founded an organisation to campaign for clarity on sex in law and policy: www.sex-matters.org. My case inspired JK Rowling to speak up, and her voice and courage have inspired thousands. Just as we are making headway at challenging bad policies which over-emphasise protection from offence at the expense of rationality, fairness and freedom, the government is planning to bring in a hasty new law which threatens to start it all over again.
FULL CRITIC ARTICLE
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Article can also be read on Iain Lawson’s
YOURS FOR SCOTLAND blog
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