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Nicola Sturgeon is facing a legal battle over plans to allow transgender people to choose what sex they are in next year’s census, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Campaigners at Fair Play for Women have launched a judicial review after SNP Ministers decided to let participants ‘self-identify’ as male or female.
That move ignored a High Court ruling in London that people must base their answer on the sex listed on their birth certificate or gender recognition certificate.
The court action comes as the First Minister plans to introduce legislation to make it easier for people to legally change sex in Scotland without medical checks.
Guidance for the question ‘what is your sex?’ in Scotland’s census, which was delayed for a year due to Covid, says: ‘If you are transgender the answer you give can be different from what is on your birth certificate. You do not need a gender recognition certificate.’
Dr Nicola Williams is leading the campaign against the planned changes to allow transgender people to legally change their sex without medical checks
Women’s rights campaigners claim that the guidance is ‘unlawful and directly impacts the rights of women and girls’ – because the census is used to plan government policy.
Earlier this year, Fair Play For Women – established ‘to protect the rights of women and girls in the UK’ – won a High Court case over similar plans to allow transgender
