If you're trans and work for a sizable UK company or organisation, now is a great time to log into your HR portal and remove any information you can on your sex/gender, e.g. by replacing any information with "prefer not to say".
Surely this goes to the very heart of Goodwin? @jolyon.goodlawproject.org @jessothomson.co.uk
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This is utterly disgusting. If this stands, people with profound cognitive disabilities will be left without protection. This is the kind of horror that will end up being the subject of a major inquiry 20 years from now when the damage has already been done. www.mind.org.uk/news-campaig...
A fifth of all eligible MPs have now signed this
(Remembering that 93 MPs are ministers and can’t sign EDMs)
Please write to yours to ask them to sign.
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Ruth Pearce
The new EHRC Code of Practice is not fit for purpose. It does not provide clear guidance or do enough to protect everyone from discrimination, and it is not compatible with longstanding British values.
@EdDavey.LibDems.org.uk and @MarieCGoldman.bsky.social have written to Bridget Phillipson. ⬇️
Today’s EHRC Code of Practice is overdue and the devil is in the detail and delivery.
I first want to extend my support and understanding to trans people who have spent far too long in uncertainty, waiting for confirmation on how they will be able to live out their daily lives in public. 🧵 (1/7)
This bypasses Parliament. This approach was rejected in the Data Bill but the government thinks it can just go to the undemocratic FWS v Scottish Ministers ruling. This has implications for future handling of data.
It erases the idea of sex discrimination for trans people for religious ideology
