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Equality

since 2025 › Jan › 23 (Thu) @ 21:55 UTC

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3 days ago

Campaigners consider legal action against Scottish government after supreme court gender ruling

found 2025 › Jun › 14 (Sat) @ 13:25 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

For Women Scotland says public discussion around legal definition of women has shifted to debates about toilets policy

For Women Scotland, the group responsible for April’s landmark supreme court ruli…

6 days ago

UK equalities watchdog: Transgender people may be asked about gender status in workplace

found 2025 › Jun › 11 (Wed) @ 18:50 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Trans people who feel they’ve lost rights should ‘distinguish between rights in law and preference for things to be a certain way’, EHCR chair said

Transgender people may be asked about their gender s…

NHS bosses who denied boy, 8, treatment because he attends a private school could be guilty of 'indirect discrimination' says barrister

found 2025 › Jun › 11 (Wed) @ 16:10 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Daniel ShenSmith, a practising lawyer and internet personality, said such a move would be 'unethical' and could breach the Equality Act 2010.

11 days ago

NHS chiefs rip up 'pro-trans guidance' which allowed people to use toilets and changing rooms 'of their chosen gender' after Supreme Court ruling

found 2025 › Jun › 06 (Fri) @ 08:05 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

The NHS Confederation has quietly withdrawn the document from its website after judges confirmed the term sex in the Equality Act refers to biological sex, not gender identity.

21 days ago

Vital new gender guidance to help organisations deal with Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman is in a 'state of limbo until EHRC chair is replaced'

found 2025 › May › 27 (Tue) @ 16:50 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

The Equality and Human Rights Commission pledged to produce final guidance by July but this could reportedly be delayed by months amid infighting with its chair Baroness Falkner.

27 days ago

Hospitals and gyms to be able to request birth certificates of trans people to protect single-sex spaces

found 2025 › May › 21 (Wed) @ 00:35 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

The Equality and Human Rights Commission said it may be 'necessary and proportionate' to ask somebody about their birth sex in certain situations, provided it is done in a 'sensitive way'.

31 days ago

Britain has dropped down Europe’s LGBTQ+ rights rankings. Good – now we might have to face reality | Jason Okundaye

found 2025 › May › 17 (Sat) @ 10:45 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

In 2015, the UK placed first on the rainbow map. But even then, as an 18-year-old gay man, I knew that wasn’t the whole story

It should surprise no one that the UK has dropped to its lowest ever posit…

46 days ago

LGBTQ+ charities warn of ‘genuine crisis’ for trans people after UK ruling

found 2025 › May › 02 (Fri) @ 10:49 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Charities say the judgment creates ‘a legal framework that simply cannot uphold the dignity’ of trans people

Fourteen national LGBTQ+ charities have written to Keir Starmer seeking an urgent meeting t…

India Willoughby and Stonewall FC lead critics denouncing 'unjustified and unfair' English FA ruling on trans players' ban from women's football

found 2025 › May › 02 (Fri) @ 10:49 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

The FA said it had updated its policy in light of last month's Supreme Court ruling that the words 'woman' and 'sex' in the Equality Act refer to a biological woman and biological sex.

52 days ago

Equality watchdog issues interim guidance on single-sex spaces

found 2025 › Apr › 26 (Sat) @ 07:40 UTC

a story from BBC ✅ › BBC News

It follows the UK Supreme Court's ruling that a woman is defined by biological sex under equalities law.

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