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GRA and Equality Act

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Zhora · 15/09/2018 23:36

I'm not an expert on the two acts so please correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I understand it the Equality Act covers trans people's access to facilities and services unless there is a good reason that can be argued for them being excluded. They do not need a GRC and the majority do not have one. Therefore anyone who wants to can already use the facilities of the gender they identify with. Are changes to the GRA actually likely to make any significant changes to the numbers accessing services? Wouldn't they already be doing so?

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PositivelyPERF · 16/09/2018 00:33

At the moment you can tell a bloke to get out of a female only area and security or management can tell them to leave, but if this misogynistic law comes in, then he can simply say he’s a woman and you will be the one told to leave, for objecting to his presence.

wheretoevenbegin · 16/09/2018 00:26

The GRA undermines the equality act by making exclusion on the basis of sex impossible to enforce.

wheretoevenbegin · 16/09/2018 00:24

Sex is specifically named as a protected characteristic in the Equality act, and you can exclude people on the basis of sex.

BesmirchingMotherhood · 15/09/2018 23:54

Not sure, but given that you’re not allowed to ask to see a GRC how would it matter?

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Zhora · 15/09/2018 23:52

I thought you could still be excluded from certain facilities and situations if there was good reason, whether you have a GRC or not or is that wrong?

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BesmirchingMotherhood · 15/09/2018 23:43

Quick proper answer is that the bad implementation of the EA means we’re already up shit river, but change to GRA would mean we literally couldn’t keep them out under any circumstances.

So your smear could be done by a woman with a beard, penis and testicles and you couldn’t object.

Bespin · 15/09/2018 23:40

quick answer is no no difference to access facilities can still do the same.