Equality and Diversity — sex no longer a protected characteristic

Sorry should say ‘their’ page!

Home Office has link to EA2010 but the statement on there page is:

The fucking home office has misquoted the law?

Fucking hell.

With schools etc I can see they have followed others/ been stonewalled etc

But the fucking home office? Jesus.

It is sex and gender reassignment because humans can't change sex. Otherwise it would've been sex reassignment.

It is amazing how easy it was to subvert the law to their own purposes.
Widely circulate an official looking fraudulent copy of the EA2010 replacing sex as a protected characteristic with gender identity.
Demand your gender identity rights under the false provisions of the fake EA2010 you provided.
It's an old con, but a reliable one.

The HT now thinks I'm a bigot and homophobe

I'm sorry that happened to you HandsOffMyRights. At least you know you did the right thing.

No organisation has the right or the power to rewrite legislation. We need to challenge this a)wimpish b)deceptive behaviour and our them right whenever we see it. It can't be allowed to be normalized. Sex sex, sex. Sex.

I'm convinced there's still embarrasment about saying and writing 'sex'.

It hasn't been scrapped - WPUK has a good resource: womansplaceuk.org/sex-is-a-protected-characteristic/

I quoted it when my doctor's surgery had a notice up with their equality statement. You guessed it, they listed gender and not sex or gender reassignment.

I wrote to them pointing out if they received a sex discrimination complaint they would likely lose because they hadn't expressly stated they do not discriminate on the grounds of sex.

Next time I went in, they'd changed it.

Challenge and demand they put it right!

It works.

I checked my local town council this week to check they still had the correct characteristics. The Equality Policy has been removed. I have written to the council to ask what their protected characteristics are and why the EQ policy is not avail.

Also note it has been removed from the district council's website too.

Of twenty schools in my area, only 2 had the correct characteristics listed 6 months ago when I checked them all.

The 2 secondary schools (same trust) mention the Equality Policy in their Transgender Policy, but do not have a copy of it on their website, not did the school have a hard copy when I phoned.

The other 16 schools have variations of gender, gender identity, or gender/gender ID & transsexuality. I have seen some schools with gender, transsexuality & pregnancy on the same line which Income astounding.

It particularly annoys me because one of the private organisations I’m looking at are in so many ways really pro woman.

They actively encourage flexible working, heavily involved in workshops to get women in to science etc and have senior execs going out to talk to girls about opportunities in a traditionally male field.

Cannot even list the protected characteristics correctly. I shall be emailing them this weekend.

They are in violation of the law. This has usually happened as a result of the council or business being the victim of fraud.
Please alert them to the fact that they may have been the victim of fraud and give them an accurate list of the protected characteristics and a link to the EA2010 law.

My concerns related to these unqualified adults teaching gender ideology as fact, describing homosexuality as 'medical' 🤔 and a whole alphabet soup of terminology.

The HT now thinks I'm a bigot and homophobe.

I noticed a few months ago that my dd's school have updated a few of their equality and diversity policy documents. "Sex" hasn't gone completely, but they've changed it to "gender (sex)" and gender is used then onwards. They've also changed what I think was previously "gender reassignment" to "gender identity and reassignment". Because sex is still there, I wasn't sure if it was worth writing to them about this. What do any of you think? They also reference Stonewall training and say they may appoint someone to train as a "Stonewall champion". I have concerns about this but I am not sure how to word them and I don't really know enough about what having a Stonewall champion would entail.

I actually noticed this the other day on my LinkedIn. A very eminent QC had posted a statement about committment to E&D within a particular part of the legal profession. Great. But they have referenced gender, and not sex. They had some other random bits and pieces in there (they mention colour and race) and don't mention gender reassignment, which is a protected characteristic.

Unfortunately I do not feel in a position to point it out, as doing so, even in a nice, professional way, would be suicidal for my career.

Councils and other organisations where I can point it out as a private citizen, not linked to my job, are a different matter!

The Women And Equalities Committee is at it as well, its changed the protected characteristic of 'gender reassignment' to 'gender identity'.

committees.parliament.uk/committee/328/women-and-equalities-committee/role/

Email: [email protected]

Address:
Women and Equalities Committee
Committee Office
House of Commons
Palace of Westminster
SW1A 0AA

Going back to this, it's a clear misrepresentation of the equality strands:

"The Committee fills "a gap" in previous accountability arrangements - the Minister for Women and Equalities and the GEO will now be held to account by a select committee for the Government's performance on equalities (sex, age, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, pregnancy and maternity, marriage or civil partnership status) issues. The Committee joins more than thirty Parliaments worldwide with dedicated equalities committees."

They will change the wording now that it has been pointed out to them (unless whoever is responsible for this is absolutely determined to carry on misrepresenting the law ), but that's not enough. WHY do we have to point it out to them?

Who made this change, when and why? Who approved it?

I - cant remember why - looked at the University of Westminster site and they were waaay high up on the woowoo scale.

This is my local University, I might feel courageous this evening and email them

maybe but its not acceptable to misrepresent the 9 protected characteristics of the Equalities Act

its gender reassignment - they cant just tag gender identity onto that because they feel like it

yes i believe so - mine has gender reassignment/gender identity

nope!

I've just checked a council page and it (correctly) includes sex, but as another protected characteristic has 'gender (including gender reassignment)'. If gender is only mentioned in the EA 2010, have the council added in their own additional category here?

I've checked my borough council and they have the correct wording - sex and gender reassignment. I've written to thank them for abiding by the law.
Not checked my county council yet.

Thank you for highlighting this.

I've just emailed the Chair to ask what is 'gender identity', how is it defined in law, and how and why they are measuring it, given that it isn't a legally protected characteristic.