SCOTTISH Labour is facing a “nightmare scenario” over the gender reforms it supported at Holyrood which have now been rejected by Keir Starmer.
Sources fear the Scottish and UK Labour parties could find themselves on opposite sides of a courtroom battle over the disputed law if Starmer wins the general election.
The UK Government vetoed Holyrood’s Gender Recognition Reform Bill (GRR) in January, a decision Humza Yousaf’s SNP-Green Government challenged.
However the first hearing is not until September, and if the case goes all the way to the UK Supreme Court it could be a new Labour Government that inherits it.
That raises the prospect of Labour ministers and MPs trying to veto a Bill endorsed by Labour MSPs.
One Labour MSP said there was a “nightmare scenario” in which Labour at Westminster and Labour at Holyrood backed different outcomes in court, calling it “terribly messy”.
Another senior party source said Scottish Labour would have to shift its position.
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Labour MSPs are understood to have discussed the scenario but taken no firm position.
UK Labour last week ditched its previous plan to allow people to change their legal gender through self-declaration, also known as self-ID.
The party said it wanted the process for obtaining a gender recognition certificate (GRC) to retain a medical component to help guard against possible abuse of the system.
Scottish Labour rejected the change, saying it...
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