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Equality Act to be targeted

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Pratchet · 04/06/2018 18:29

Hi, just off to make dinner but would love to hear your thoughts on how quickly or if the Equality Act will be targeted by transactivists IF they win on Self ID.

At the moment they claim it won't be, but the movement has proved itself to be untrustworthy. When women give a little way, they have been completely stomped and big-footed.

My view is that if TRA get self ID, the Equality Act will be targeted as 'outdated' within six months.

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ChattyLion · 04/06/2018 19:29

This is really scary. We can’t lose the one legal mechanism to keep legally watertight single-sex spaces etc. I’m going to ask my MP to make maintaining the EA a part of their response of (I hope) rejecting legal gender self ID.

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Pratchet · 04/06/2018 18:44

I can't believe it has to be in place for a set time

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sleepingdragons · 04/06/2018 18:44

the only woman-only spaces will be labour wards?

Pregnant people, please, not women. Don't you know men can get pregnant too?

/sarcasm.

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Pratchet · 04/06/2018 18:43

They aren't woman only tho. Apparently the bar will be set high for excluding TW anyway. Eg if a woman is in a refuge and her trans partner turns up, he can be refused entry. Wtf kind of protection is that.

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UpstartCrow · 04/06/2018 18:43

I forget where I read it, but the EA is supposed to be protected and stay in force for a specific length of time.
TRA's can't change the Act so they will try to change the definitions the Act uses.

''Sections 104-105 of the Act extends until 2030 the exemption from sex discrimination law which allows political parties to create all women or all men candidate short-lists.''
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equality_Act_2010

As can be seen from what's happening with the Jo Cox program, its been made nonsensical.

Terfulike · 04/06/2018 18:40

Does this mean that the only woman-only spaces will be labour wards?

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Pratchet · 04/06/2018 18:37

Oh really? I didn't realise. So they'll probably try to get self ID AND the Equality Act amended at the same time.

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GenderApostate · 04/06/2018 18:36

They already are. The Trans grouo Be.North have been saying for months that they want the single Sex exemptions removed 😡

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