{"id":28142,"date":"2025-05-02T10:12:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T10:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/scottish-ministers-shelve-plans-for-new-misogyny-law\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T10:12:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T10:12:49","slug":"scottish-ministers-shelve-plans-for-new-misogyny-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/scottish-ministers-shelve-plans-for-new-misogyny-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish ministers shelve plans for new misogyny law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The Scottish government has confirmed it will not bring forward planned legislation to criminalise misogyny before next year&#8217;s Holyrood election. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A bill has long been promised to improve protections for women and girls, but ministers now say there is not enough time to draw up a law which reflects the recent Supreme Court judgement on the definition of a woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">They are instead going to amend existing hate crime legislation to provide protections on the basis of sex. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The government has also confirmed it will not be bringing forward legislation to end conversion therapy this term, and is hoping for a UK-wide solution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/crkx31my24ro\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish government has confirmed it will not bring forward planned legislation to criminalise misogyny before next year&#8217;s Holyrood election. A bill has long been promised to improve protections for women and girls, but ministers now say there is not enough time to draw up a law which reflects the recent Supreme Court judgement on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[2478,124,4439,121,1706,9823],"class_list":["post-28142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-law","tag-ministers","tag-misogyny","tag-plans","tag-scottish","tag-shelve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28144,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28142\/revisions\/28144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}