Gender Recognition Reform
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
What is The Gender Recognition Reform Bill currently tabled at Holyrood, and why has the debate around it grown so heated? Lucy and Phil are joined by BBC correspondent Lorna Gordon to discuss the legislation being debated in Scottish Parliament this week. What are the proposed reforms, what does it mean for Trans people and their legal identity, and what do groups for and against the bill have to say?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.9 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:15.4 | That brings you an inside look at the big stories |
| 0:17.9 | coming out of Holyrood and Westminster. |
| 0:20.0 | It is 12 minutes past three on Thursday the 3rd |
| 0:22.7 | of March. I'm Lucy White, |
| 0:24.6 | a journalist based in Glasgow and today |
| 0:26.5 | I'm joined by. I'm Phil Simmer, a reporter |
| 0:28.5 | based at the Scottish Parliament. And I'm |
| 0:30.7 | Lorna Gordon. I'm a reporter based in Glasgow |
| 0:32.5 | as well. Hello Lorna. Is this |
| 0:34.5 | your first political? It is. |
| 0:36.8 | I'm very excited. Thank you for having me. |
| 0:38.3 | Yeah, we're very excited to have you. And Phil, we're actually doing this on Zoom for a change because we're doing it a certainly different time of day. |
| 0:44.3 | And I can see that you currently have a view of the Scottish Parliament, the actual Chamber, where you're recording. |
| 0:50.3 | Yeah, I'm looking on as MSPs hear a statement about the Gender Recognition Reform |
| 0:56.7 | Act. Yeah, and that is what we're here to talk about today. We will have a podcast about the |
| 1:02.1 | situation in Ukraine coming in your feeds in the next couple of days, but an important moment |
| 1:07.5 | at Hollywood today, so that's what we're focusing on on the podcast. |
| 1:11.9 | I wonder if we could start with you, Phil, then. |
| 1:15.0 | You're watching it happen at the moment. |
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