The Catholic Church has called on its congregation to oppose proposed reforms to gender recognition laws in Scotland, which it called “troubling”. It also said that trans people must accept the gender they were assigned at birth for the sake of marriage and family life. Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon published draft plans to reform gender recognition laws and launched a fresh public consultation in December 2019. The Catholic Church called the draft plans a “troubling development” and urged its followers to “engage in the consultation”.