I went on a course with Remploy yesterday.
They seem to have completely excluded sex from their equal opportunities policy.
This is the policy
Remploy has an Equal Opportunities Policy to ensure all employees and customers are treated equitably and as individuals regardless of colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, political belief, social or economic class, marital or parental status, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability
Is this normal now? Is this the erasure of sex based protection?
I'm half hoping some numpty has just confused sex and gender and is using the terms interchangeably but surely this means that eventually any sex based differences between men and women are excluded from protection on the basis that a man who feels like a woman is a woman and doesn't have the sex based difference, therefore there is no difference between women and men?
Surely the whole point of sex based protection is on the fact that male bodies and female bodies are different in the first place and female bodied people have historically needed protection/faced discrimination because of those differences particularly in the world of work which Remploy seeks to address inequality and help disadvantaged people back into work?
Grrrr, I don't want to be lumped in with male bodied people when it comes to protection from discrimination, whether they identify as a woman or not!