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To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a definition for a (a) male-to-female and (b) female-to-male transgender person under section 14(7) of the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill.


Answered by Humza Yousaf (07/07/2020):

The phrases ‘male-to-female’ and ‘female-to-male’ transgender person are not specifically defined in the Bill because it is not considered necessary for those phrases to be given any special definitions for the purposes of the Bill.

Within the Bill’s definition of ‘transgender identity’, paragraphs (a) and (b) (‘a female-to-male transgender person’ and ‘a male-to-female transgender person’) are included to cover trans men and trans women. For example, this includes those who identify as male but were registered as female at birth, and those who identify as female but were registered as male at birth.


Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 07/07/2020
 
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