For the first time, the UK government has blocked legislation passed by the Scottish parliament. Here's why that is such a momentous move.
It argues that different criteria for a transgender person to be legally recognised between Scotland and England would endanger same-sex spaces in the latter.
However, the UK government has voiced concerns over "gender tourism", in which people in England might use the new Scottish processes to change their legal gender more easily. That move prohibits Scotland's presiding officer from submitting a bill for Royal assent, therefore preventing it becoming law.For many hundreds of years prior, Scotland did not have a government following the unification of Great Britain in the 1700s.
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