Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill (Detailed)

Excellent. This is the only reasonable choice, in line with modern understanding of gender.

A shorter period is better. Having any period at all feels like a compromise to the kinds of gatekeepers who spend their days fuming over the existence of trans people, looking for any excuse and opportunity jump on them for being deceptive in some way.

Ideally, this process should be an administrative formality at best. Does a single piece of paperwork define a cis person's ability to live the way they want? Does the government require a cis man to declare that he intends to live permanently in his gender? What does "to live permanently in their acquired gender" even mean?

From what I've heard, the Gender Recognition Panel is an anonymous group with no oversight, no accountability, no appeal, and no expertise, whose main hobby is forcing trans people to submit their entire lives for scrutiny and questioning.

Do other administrative processes require you to submit blindly to a tribunal of strangers with the power to invalidate a central pillar of your life on a whim?

The amount of work involved in changing one's entire gender presentation is enormous, costly, and often dangerous, exposing oneself to bigotry and hatred from every level of society. It is also wholly external and irrelevant to any administrative process.

To be trans is to face daily harassment, discrimination, bigotry, and attempts at outright eradication. Trans people do not need "a further period of reflection". Trans people need legal support and protection.

Fine, as long as trans kids can still access hormone blockers.

Once again I remind you of the sheer amount of effort - and risk - involved in being trans. One does not change their entire gender presentation on a lark.

What benefits of obtaining a GRC under false pretenses could possibly be worth that amount of effort?

Attaching criminal offense and prison time to this process only creates a lever for some rancid asshole to pull when they feel like sending some trans person to prison for just going about their day. It's a needless waste of investigative and judicial resources that would be better spent combating transphobic hate crimes

Being trans is already expensive enough without a legislative fee.

Remove wait times, remove the ability to cast criminal suspicion on a person's transness, increase access to gender-affirming healthcare, and generally make this as much of an easy, dull administrative formality as possible so that trans people can just go about their day in peace.