Non-Binary Working Group minutes: 23 February 2022

Attendees and apologies

Attendees

• Bobby Jones, Facilitator

Group members

• Dr Ben Vincent, The Open University
• Vic Valentine, Scottish Trans
• Oceana Maund, Scottish Trans
• Megan Snedden, Stonewall Scotland
• Katrina Mitchell, LGBT Health & Wellbeing
• Sarah Anderson, LGBT Youth Scotland
• Dr Carolynn Gray, The University of the West of Scotland
• Dr Peter Dunne, The University of Bristol
• Non-Binary Community Members

Secretariat

• Keir McDonald, Equality and Inclusion Division, Scottish Government
• Chloe Coldwell, Equality and Inclusion Division, Scottish Government

Items and actions

Key discussion points

The group discussed:

General feedback

• useful to understand where recommendations did and did not fit with existing policy objectives
• wanted reassurance that the group being formed specifically with the remit of tackling issues for non-binary people would not result in the recommendations being understood as having fixed, hard boundaries, only addressing issues for non-binary people
• making sure that recommendations were worded in a way that allowed them to be fully understood when presented independently of background and contextual information
• the word “specific” be added to several recommendations to strengthen them
• what to do in cases where the draft recommendations would fall outside of the remit of the Scottish Government

Healthcare feedback

• feedback on the Healthcare recommendations and reframing some of the recommendations in light of feedback from officials
• the wording of the recommendations and gave suggested changes to be incorporated in the redrafting stage

Data collection feedback

• feedback from officials on the Data Collection recommendations
• the wording of the recommendations and gave suggested changes to be incorporated in the redrafting stage

Access to services feedback

• feedback from officials on the Access to Services recommendations and decided which recommendations to reframe in order to convey their original considerations more strongly
• the wording of the recommendations and gave suggested changes to be incorporated in the redrafting stage
• changes to the layout for this group of recommendations before final presentation