Employment law and pregnant men

I don't. I'd like you to understand why our shared sex is important to us.

Meh. It's evident if that's your response that you don't actually want to learn or understand about the barriers and how to break them down- you just want an argument with a trans person.

I'm more than happy to talk about how I've experienced infertility on the NHS as a trans man with my trans partner and the barriers that have affected us personally as well as wider barriers that are put in place to prevent trans folks from accessing care in general. After TTC for a year this is a topic I feel incredibly passionate about and could talk about for hours. I'm not going to waste my breath on someone who is just looking for a fight though, because quite frankly anyone who decides to shit on infertile people because they don't like something they are is terrible and needs to evaluate priorities.

It's about sex, not "gender".

Trans people are already discriminated against when it comes to family building so any laws that state genders regarding pregnancy would screw us over completely. I have multiple fertility issues, have been TTC for a year with my partner who is a trans woman and we're already not elegible for NHS fertility treatment because the criteria didn't think of trans people at all and we are almost purposely left out.

The best thing to do re laws and regulations like this is to ask the people going through it.

Lass I wasn't replying to you, I was replying to jellyfish. But there is a possibility that in the future it will not be protected separately. It's sex linked. Also maternity only covers a short period of time.

Which is precisely why we need clear wording differentiating sex from gender identity.

Hi, I'm a trans man. Unless a trans man has a GRC this wouldn't affect them and pregnancy is a protected characteristic by itself so it would probably be fine anyway

Indeed. The protections offered in relation to people who are pregnant or breastfeeding apply to people who are actually pregnant or breastfeeding regardless of whether they say they are man, woman or alien from outer space.

(Someone will no doubt quote that US case relating to firing a breastfeeding woman not being discrimination because some men can bf also. That is not how UK or EU law works)

Like many, many, many laws though, it's one of the ones that will be open to interpretation and potentially used to discriminate against trans folks which is why you'll find so many trans men who are pregnant or want to be parents delaying getting GRCs so that they can definetely access care (I am one of those trans men). It's sad and shit.

Hi, I'm a trans man. Unless a trans man has a GRC this wouldn't affect them and pregnancy is a protected characteristic by itself so it would probably be fine anyway.

Men don't get pregnant, as sex is a protected characteristic. Transgender people have the protected characteristic of gender reassignment. they can expect to be treated as someone from the opposite sex or not less favourably; they do not actually become that sex.

Pregnancy is now a protected characteristic in its own right under the Equality Act (not just a subset of sex discrimination as previously) so probably not too much. It is the fact of pregnancy that counts.

Although the act does refer to pregnant women which trans men may wish to have amended!