From FPFW:
https://twitter.com/fairplaywomen/status/1645379870019444737?s=46&t=WHoOZ_3Kv5G6-FyQuvE0LQ
"THREAD: Today we have written to the @EHRC asking them to publish a clarification on its website setting out the lawful application of Schedule 9 Genuine Occupational Requirements. /1
Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010 enables an employer, when necessary, to lawfully restrict a role to be female-only.
We have proved the EHRC with evidence of widespread and ongoing misuse of this single-sex exception /2
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/schedule/9
Schedule 9 does not allow an employer to restrict applications based on self-identity.
It does not include people who's sex is male even if they share the protected characteristic of gender reassignment.
Put simply, men who identify as women are not covered by Schedule 9. /3
[They go on to provide examples where they say things are not being done lawfully, and end the thread as follows]
This is evidence of widespread misunderstanding of a law designed to reassure service users that the member of staff dealing with them is female.
Allowing some males to do a female-only job undermines this important single-sex provision. We hope the EHRC will act /8