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http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20230213-233146-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/a-new-battlefront-for-scottish-nationalists-in-the-united-kingdom/ A New Battlefront for Scottish Nationalists in the United Kingdom - The Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill Tierney, Stephen eng 2023-02-13 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Devolution federalism Gender Recognition Scotland Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 By blocking the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, the UK Government is showing that it is now ready to police the boundaries of devolved competence more robustly, especially when it believes legislation is being used deliberately to veer into reserved matters. It is perhaps also now asserting a more homogeneous approach to fundamental human rights values, an assertion which is the hallmark of other federal systems. The current debate also exposes that the radical devolution of so many powers to sub-state institutions over the past two decades without serious thought being given for the potential impact of this process upon the maintenance of coherent state policy was perhaps ill-advised and requires correction.