On the Third Day of Debatemas

Podlitical

BBC

Government, News

4.6 • 157 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

After several days of intense debate, the Gender Recognition Reform bill passes. From the early mornings to the late nights, the team discuss this week in Scottish Parliament, as MSPs debated and voted on amendments to the Gender Recognition Reform Bill into the early hours, enabling the Scottish Government to get the legislation passed before the Christmas recess. As this week saw protests outside Holyrood, the team asks why has the bill been so controversial in Scotland, what have been the big flashpoints, and what might come next now it has passed?

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds
0:02.4	You're listening to BBC Scotland
0:10.8	Hi, you're listening to Podletical BBC Scotland's podcast
0:15.8	It brings you an inside look at the biggest stories
0:18.0	coming out of Holyrood and Westminster.
0:20.6	It is 2211. On Thursday
0:23.6	the 22nd of December, I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow. And today I'm joined by.
0:29.1	I'm Phil Sim, a journalist normally based at the Scottish Parliament. Today I'm in my house.
0:33.3	Similar to Lucy, I'm slightly surprised about what time it is, clearly.
0:38.4	And I'm Lindsay's views, a journalist also based at Hollywood, and I'm sitting in our radio
0:43.0	studio in the Scottish Parliament right now. Yeah, so let's just explain the reason that we're
0:47.2	recording at 2211 and why I sounded so surprised. Time has no meaning anymore, surely. No one
0:53.4	knows what time or day it is.
0:54.8	Yeah, we don't normally record it this time.
0:56.6	But it's very well thought out, and I'll tell you why.
0:59.7	We are on day three of gender recognition reform bill debate at Holyrood.
1:07.9	Now, we thought it might have been passed.
1:09.9	When did we originally think it might have
1:11.2	been past? Yesterday. Yesterday. That did not happen and now it looks like it's going to be today.
1:18.4	So we're taking the opportunity before it all kicks off again in Parliament to get together
1:22.5	to discuss the past couple of days. We pretty much think we know how it's going to go and play out the rest of the time, don't we?
1:28.9	Great way to jinx it, isn't it? Yeah, well, we do like to do that as well. So we're getting together
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