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The Women and Equalities Office has been replaced by the Government Equalities Office (with a focus on gender and LGBT rights, women not mentioned)

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AnotherAdultHumanFemale · 13/08/2019 01:57

I've just seen this on Spinster. The government's Women and Equalities office no longer exists, and instead they have created The Government Equalities Office. In their twitter bio it states 'We are the UK Government Equalities Office, responsible for gender and LGBT equality.' They have also got a rainbow coloured logo.

This is really stressful. What have LGBT rights got to do with women's sex based oppression, the reason for the office in the first place? At the moment those two things are in direct opposition to each other. Who is going to protect women's rights now, if the office set up to do that has been dismantled?

twitter.com/GEOgovuk

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Chickenish · 13/08/2019 06:49

I think its fair enough. If it is led by people who don’t know what a woman is, there is no point having women in the department’s title.

One day it will all sort out and reality will return. Sadly, I think things have got to get a lot worse before they can get better.

MrsJamin · 13/08/2019 06:48

This is worrying 😕

AnyOldPrion · 13/08/2019 06:21

The name has changed now, but their policies haven’t. The writing on the wall has been clear for a while. They’ve changed the name to reflect something that has already happened. Under the radar, as usual.

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AnotherAdultHumanFemale · 13/08/2019 02:27

I've not read into it yet, just saw it tonight. I'm assuming this is the start, and they'll change 'women' to 'gender' on documents going forward since they have erased us from the title of the office and said they are now focused on 'gender' and LGBT rights rather than women's rights.

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GirlDownUnder · 13/08/2019 02:17

Thanks AnotherAdultHumanFemale

Re policy relating to women I’ll go read properly in a bit but do they define woman / women?

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AnotherAdultHumanFemale · 13/08/2019 01:59

It says this on their website:

"The Government Equalities Office leads work on policy relating to women, sexual orientation and transgender equality. We are responsible for a range of equalities legislation."

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