Help! Employee is Transitioning!

It's really unfair that you aren't getting more support with this, OP.

It is binding, if OP decides to discriminate against their employee, the employee would be covered under the equality act. I would highly recommend the employee keeps a record of anything just in case.

Who to give more weight to:

Feminist legal expert with an interest in these issues?

Random on MN?

It's a tough one.

In 2020 a non binary person won a discrimination case covered under gender reassignment.

I didn't say they did win. This has no bearing on anything, because it isn't a binding decision, it's an employment tribunal. It would only be binding if it went to appeal, AFAIK

Your linked opinion piece blog is wrong, jaguar lost, they did not win.

Non binary gender identity was never intended to be covered by the Equality Act, this was a bone of contention in the Trans Equality Inquiry held by the Women and Equalities Committee in 2015. In their recommendations to the government they recommended expanding the criteria to cover non binary identity but this was refused.

My link addresses the Jaguar Land Rover case What part of it wasn't actually a binding decision, and the male in question was transitioning so already met the criteria, haven't you quite grasped?

Taylor v jaguar land rover case covers your point and shows its wrong, jaguar argued non binary was not covered by the equality act, they lost. Actual legal case studies prove you are wrong.
No where in the act does it say vegans are protected, but with case studies we can prove vegans are also protected even though they aren't mentioned.

Regardless of your personal opinion, non binary people are covered by the equality act.

They aren't, it's a massive reach and it was not a precedent setting judgement. The male in the Jaguar Landrover case was clearly judged to be an MTF trans person. My bold:

At the end of Chapter 6 (Criminal Justice), the authors deal very briefly with searching under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984. They quote from the Metropolitan Police Service’s “Transgender Policy” which purports to allow trans-identifying officers to conduct searches of suspects of the opposite sex, but notes that since non-binary identities are not covered under the Equality Act, officers and staff who identify as non-binary will not be permitted to search the opposite sex. The authors’ legal analysis of this policy is confined to the single sentence, “Authors’ note: the last answer may need to be revised in the light of Taylor v Jaguar Land Rover.”
This is inadequate. The policy quoted is unlawful insofar as it applies to intimate searches, since PACE s55(7) requires that “A constable may not carry out an intimate search of a person of the opposite sex.” The authors claim elsewhere in the book that, following Taylor v Jaguar Land Rover 130447/20188^, “those with more complex gender identities are now held to be within the protected characteristic of gender reassignment.” There are a number of problems with this statement. First, a decision of an employment tribunal has no weight as precedent, yet White and Newbegin treat Taylor as if it were a binding authority. Secondly, having decided to undergo a process of reassignment and announced that decision, Taylor undoubtedly had the protected characteristic of gender reassignment on a perfectly conventional understanding of s7; so even if the judgment were capable in principle of being binding, it would not have the effect claimed. (Readers wishing to gain a fuller understanding of Taylor are directed to Maya Forstater’s excellent blogg^ on the subject.) Third, and for the Criminal Justice chapter most pertinently, the fact that an individual has the protected characteristic of gender reassignment for the purposes of the EqA does not change their biological or legal sex. The authors do not explain how the EqA duty not to discriminate on grounds of gender reassignment could be thought to override the same-sex searching requirement in PACE.

From the Legal Feminist collective blog

legalfeminist.org.uk/2021/09/02/a-practical-guide/

Regardless of your personal opinion, non binary people are covered by the equality act.
Government acts tend not to allow for personal interpretation, that's the whole point of them.
If it's actually written within the act in black and white, why don't you cut and paste it here? It must be simple enough for you, you've clearly read it closely to be so adamant on this point?

Just take it as it comes, I actually feel the response from senior management (trusting you) makes a lot of sense.

Did they block them for accessing all changing rooms or just the ones associated with thier sex? I am pretty sure you are not allowed gender separate changing rooms ( discrimination based on gender not likely to be a proprortionate solution to any problem I have encountered)

There is a definition, it can be easily searched for on any search engine.
With you logic the Maya case didn't set any laws either then. Regardless of your personal opinion, non binary people are covered by the equality act.

Special treatment such as?

So I am not a woman , just female? I have been lied to all my life?

When did it change?

Why does gender ( which is pretty vague) get used more than the objective female /male terms?

So long as they are treated the same way as someone who is the same sex as they are then the re is no claim under the equality act.

Man and woman are genders, sex is male or female.
So who gets to declare themselves beyond gender and invoke special protections in doing so?

Man and woman are genders, sex is male or female.
Real examples of discrimination can be seen in the Taylor v Jaguar land rover case. Or any other case such as the zara case, that settled for 30k after they blocked a customer from accessing changing rooms.
A simple "jaguar land rover non binary" or "zara non binary case" will give you all the information you need.

In between or beyond genders... 🤔

MAn and woman as sexes I understand

What are they in the context of gender identity?

Can you give examples of discrimination for none binary identity

I'll copy from a search result, non binary is just one term use to describe individuals who may experience a gender identity that is neither exclusively woman or man, or is in between or beyond genders.
You can go argue with verywellminded website if you have issues with it.