This has crept in to interpretations of the Equality Act, relating to single-sex services. It misrepresents the test. If you are providing a service you can provide it for women only under para 27 of Schedule 3 of the Equality Act.

@NameofWoman @MaryDal78252417 There are questions. I will post my thoughts on each.

(1) How easy it is for people to understand and enforce their rights under the Equality Act? @NameofWoman @MaryDal78252417 (2) How well enforcement action under the Equality Act works as a mechanism for achieving widescale change?

Please don't forget to respond to the other inquiry into the Equality Act 2010, which closes tomorrow.
If you can highlight one thing, let it be that ambiguity in the terms male, female, man, woman, gender reassignment, and so on must be reviewed:
#EA2010
parliament.uk/business/commi… The key question is this:

“How easy it is for people to understand and enforce their rights under the Equality Act?”

For information on Hate Crimes take a look at the CPS Guidelines

cps.gov.uk/hate-crime

https://twitter.com/RadFemLawyer/status/1030721255085932545

CPS defines as:

“Any criminal offence which is perceived by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by hostility or prejudice, based on a ...”

NEW:

Inquiry on the Equality Act 2010 and whether it’s working:

parliament.uk/business/commi… Lots of interesting questions being asked:

How easy it is for people to understand and enforce their rights under the Equality Act?

How well does enforcement action under the Equality Act work as a mechanism for achieving widescale change?

The Gender Recognition Act Consultation is now open:

"We want to be absolutely clear – we are not proposing to amend the existing
equality exceptions relating to single- and separate- sex services in the Equality
Act."

#GRAConsultation It starts with this, which is repeated throughout the documentation:

"The consultation focuses on the Gender Recognition Act 2004.
We are not proposing any amendments to the Equality Act 2010."

I’m going to be writing a lot in the coming weeks about the Government’s Gender Recognition Act consultation. (GRACon)

Here’s a good starter to see what is being sought through the reforms:

#GRACon

https://twitter.com/TransActualUK/status/1012976725242863617

On the other sides of this multifaceted debate are rational groups like @ManFRIDAY_ @Womans_Place_UK and @fairplaywomen who seek, as a minimum, preservation of the rights of women and girls. Worth following.

Gender identity is not, and will not anytime soon become, a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010.

Why?

A history/law sort of thread.... First, it is important to note that the definition in s.7 of the Equality Act 2010 focuses on "gender reassignment", not gender identity or non-binary identities etc.

Here is my thread on sex and gender, and why public authorities are legally misguided to use gender instead of sex and/or to conflate the two terms.

#SexMatters 1. Section 11(a) of the Equality Act 2010 provides that a reference to a person who has the protected characteristic of sex is a reference to a "man" or a "woman".

You may think that man/woman sounds like it means gender, in the current societal sense?