FWS challenged the Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Act 2018, which aims to improve the representation of women on the boards of Scottish public authorities.
The campaign challenged the act on the grounds the new legislation would be “outside the legislative competency of the Scottish Parliament.” The 2018 trans-inclusive act goes into detail to define the meaning of a “woman” as “a person who has the protected characteristic of gender reassignment… and only if, the person is living as a woman and is proposing to undergo, is undergoing or has undergone a process (or part of a process) for the purpose of becoming female.” FWS is a self-described “grassroots women’s rights organisation”, however they actively petitioned