UK equality watchdog's new guidance recommends excluding Trans+ people from single-sex spaces
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Jamie Wareham
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Summary
The UK's Equality and Human Rights Commission has published a new Code of Practice on single-sex services and spaces that recommends excluding Trans+ people from such spaces unless organizations are willing to drop the 'single-sex' label. Described as a watered-down version of a previous draft, the guidance provides legal defenses for organizations wishing to exclude Trans+ individuals while still claiming to protect them from discrimination. Critics argue this could roll back trans inclusion laws by more than two decades and effectively push Trans+ people out of public life.
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· 3 pulledA new code of practice has said that organisations offering single-sex services and spaces must exclude Trans+ people from them, or no longer label them as 'single-sex'.
Described as a 'toned down' version of a previous draft, it sets out how Trans+ people should be protected from discrimination, while affording organisations that wish to exclude Trans+ people legal defences in order to do so.
The long-awaiting Code of Practice may have been watered down, but it could roll back trans inclusion laws by more than two decades.
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