The human rights specialist says the legislation will help protect 'vilified' trans people.
However critics, including Harry Potter author JK Rowling, have voiced concern that it could undermine hard fought for women's rights.
He also has expressed concern about "arbitrary obstacles" for legally recognising gender identity. He said such measures contravene human rights obligations, branding them "authoritarian and anti-democratic". "United Nations human rights bodies that have spoken on the matter have constantly found that legal recognition of gender identity through self-identification is the most efficient and appropriate way to ensure the enjoyment of human rights, and I am yet to learn of a country in which this is not the case."In theory, only a small number of people would be directly affected by any reforms, with the NHS estimating that transgender people make up about 0.5% of the population.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said that some people have "genuinely held concerns" about the plans but argued that others have latched onto the issue to spread transphobia.Mr Madrigal-Borloz, a senior visiting researcher at the Harvard University Law School Human Rights Program, argued the evidence from other countries where self-identification is standard does not support fears about abuse of the system by predatory males.
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