内容摘要：They are currently projected to have won 144 seats - that's up from 120 at dissolution, when the election was called in March.

They are currently projected to have won 144 seats - that's up from 120 at dissolution, when the election was called in March.

For transgender people, who say they often face victimisation and harassment, the battles were rooted in attempts to win better legal protection."Legal gender recognition is essential for trans people to enjoy the full spectrum of rights each of us is entitled to, including safety, health and family life," according to Sacha Deshmukh, the chief executive of Amnesty International UK.  The charity opposed For Women Scotland's case in the Supreme Court.

The question of how to achieve legal recognition rose to prominence in 2002 when two judgements at the European Court of Human Rights found the UK was breaching human rights by failing to legally recognise transgender people in their acquired gender.This eventually led to the 2004 Gender Recognition Act, which allowed a trans person to apply for a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC). This recognised their preferred gender rather than their biological sex, allowing official documents like birth certificates to be changed to reflect that.But it was a long-winded process requiring two doctors to sign it off and for the person to "live in their acquired gender" for at least two years. Only about 8,000 people have applied for a GRC since they came into being, according to government figures.

Campaigners began calling for the process to be simplified. In a response to a 2020 government consultation on amending the GRA, Stonewall, the LGBTQ+ rights organisation, called for a "move to a de-medicalised and straightforward legal gender recognition process".Gradually these calls gained momentum.

In 2022, the Scottish government introduced a law that would allow people to "self-identify" in their desired gender. This was later blocked by the UK government and eventually dropped as a Scottish policy.

As the rights of trans people were being debated, women's groups started pushing back about what that meant for biological women.“We still live in a country with all the opportunities to have a career. We still have all the rights, but we have the right to choose to live more traditionally.”

Aside from ideological debates, discussions have focussed on the social and cultural factors that could be influencing young women to quit work - or at least aspire to a softer lifestyle.Sweden has a reputation for work life balance - most employees get

and less than 1% work more than 50 hours a week.Still, Ungdomsbaromatern’s research suggests rising stress levels amongst young people, and Ms Göransson believes soft girls trend may be an extension of recent global work trends such as