Does your Local Authority Equality Policy exclude sex as a protected characteristic?

Is there anyway of creating a full list?

Can you please link to the Twitter thread?

That twitter thread is shocking.

So a Trans councillor in Cambridge, actually persuaded the council, to change the wording of a law,

and they did it specifically so that it was not SEX that mattered with anything that was sex specific (jobs etc) in the council, but GENDER, they specifically made this change to the LAW in order to allow TW access to women only stuff.

And this was years ago.

And they are totally upfront about this and can't see why changing the wording of a LAW in this way is a really iffy thing to do

I want it, so I'm going to simply get the wording of the law written incorrectly on the documents here, so I can have it.

Anyone who believes the recent posts etc saying there is no interest in changing the EA needs to take a look at this.

Essex County Council Twitter fobbed me off with telling me to write to my local councillor. Well I've done that at least, wrote to all of them haha

Looks like mine, large Northern town has done away with sex too (this draft was 2017)

Certain characteristics are defined as protected by the Equality Act (2010); these are; age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and sexual orientation.

Mine doesn't have sex either. Eternal vigilence is bloody hard work

Mine says:

"The Council aims to ensure that no job applicants, employees, residents or service users receive less favourable treatment on any grounds which cannot be shown to be justified. This covers race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, gender, marital status, responsibility for children or other dependants, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, age, trade union or political activities, social class, where the person lives or spent convictions."

and

"The Council aims.........to monitor its employment processes by age group, disability, gender, racial group and religion or belief and take action to address any inequalities that are apparent"

My LA actually only has 3 lines about Equality and just say they will adhere to the EA so pretty simple!

Okay so sending letter off to my MP. He actually seems quite clued up and involved so hopefully it will engage him. Although his main priorities do appear to be traffic and housing

Not sure who to write to about this, but it looks like this is re-writing the Equality Act by stealth

Definitely is. Can't change the law? Change what the words in the law mean.

Mine is also farmer and about 15 years behind everywhere else and I can't imagine they would even realise that there might be a trans person in the area and the word sex might upset the old bids

AArgh
Local authority says gender and gender reassignment (but it only mentions trans sexuals).
County Council says protected characteristics are "sex changes" (!) and "men and women" but I think it's been written in simplified language.

You know that Sarah brown is trans? It seems there was a vote. Interesting point.

I've just tweeted NHS England to point out their error & asked if there was a reason for it.

Interesting. Mine has noted
There are nine protected characteristics that provide protection from discrimination for employees. These are:

• Age 
• Disability 
• Gender
• Sexual orientation 
• Race 
• Gender reassignment  
• Marriage or civil partnership
• Religion or belief 
• Pregnancy and maternity 

There are eight protected characteristics of people who use services. These are:

• Age (over 18)
• Disability
• Sex
• Gender reassignment  
• Pregnancy and maternity 
• Race 
• Religion or belief 
• Sexual orientation

So employees aren't protected from sex discrimation at work - twaddle! Thank goodness the public are though...they seem confused...

Mine (rural) does not mention 'gender'. At all. Farmers, hey

The northern LA where I live uses the word sex.

Interesting revelation from Sarah Brown. I'm not any sort of expert in equality and diversity policies, but is what she did actually legal?

@Floeer good idea. Someone has suggested the hashtag #SexMatters

This is what I've written. I just kept it short and to the point.

@Fairyflaps, I agree, it really does. I've already emailed the equalities team of my local nhs trust to point out that they're excluding sex.

You could tweet them Fairyflaps

I've tweeted NHS England and Essex County Council. I shall construct a letter to my MP today as well.

The NHS constitution also refers to gender not sex.

Which is absolutely bonkers as most services for which I use the NHS for are related to my biological sex not my gender, e.g. smear test, contraception.

Not sure who to write to about this, but it looks like this is re-writing the Equality Act by stealth.

Appears that Essex have confused sex and gender after all as they have sections labelled as "Sex" but then give charts under "gender" - see images attached

Mine says sex and gender reassignment, like wot it should.

My children think it's amusing that I'm making political statements on their forms, etc.
My 13yo dd has started correcting teachers (politely pointing out) and other children if they use 'gender' in place of 'sex', with an explanation of why they're not the same, etc.

Hang on a mo... Just seen this on Essex's website!