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Also, she's lying about "throwing open the doors". That was never the intention of proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act. We've had years of hateful c
by DanBC 6y ago
Also, she's lying about "throwing open the doors". That was never the intention of proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act. We've had years of hateful campaigning, with the most prominent support coming from JKR but also from the right wing UK press, spreading misinformation.
http://qna.files.parliament.uk/ws-attachments/1236318/original/GRA%20Consultation%20Analysis%20Report.pdf http://qna.files.parliament.uk/ws-attachments/1236318/origin...
> The Equality Act allows service providers to offer separate or differing services to men and women, or services to one sex only. For example, a domestic violence refuge may offer its services only to women. The Act also allows service providers to exclude a person with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment from a single-sex or separate-sex service, provided that doing so is a proportionate means of meeting a legitimate aim –in other words, where the service provider can demonstrate that there is a very strong reason for doing so. This can only be decided on a case-by-case basis, considering the needs of both the individual trans person and other service users.
> When launching the consultation, the Government said that it did not intend to amend the Equality Act. The consultation document stated that service providers would still be able to exclude trans people from single-or separate-sex services in certain circumstances, and that this could also apply to someone who had changed their legal gender and was in possession of a GRC. The Government’s view at the outset of the consultation, therefore,was that the operation of the single-sex exception would not be affected by changes to the GRA