Fairplay for women
BREAKING: New EHRC guidance relating to ‘women-only’ job adverts.
“A ‘sex-based’ occupational requirement to be a woman under Schedule 9 cannot include transgender women who have not obtained a GRC” /1
https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/guidance/guidance-discriminatory-adverts
We have been calling for this guidance for a long time. We have been reporting rogue employers each time they misuse the law by advertising for ‘self-identifying women’ to fill women-only roles. /2
In March this year EHRC promised to publish new guidance. From now on no employer can say it didn’t understand the rules. /3
This new guidance that makes clear men who self-identity as women are not female and should not be recruited as such. This makes it fairer on the women who apply and the people who rely on a woman being in that role for reasons of privacy, dignity and safety. /4
However this new guidance also says men who change their legal status to female by obtaining a GRC can be recruited into a female role. This highlights the absurdity of a law that expects a woman to waive her need for privacy or safety simple because a man gets a certificate. /5
The new Labour Government wants to make it even easier for men to get these certificates. /6
This is why Starmer must take seriously calls to clarify that sex means biological sex in the Equality Act.
Otherwise when you next ask for a women to perform your intimate exam you might get a man with a certificate doing it. /7
This new guidance is a step in the right direction. It bars the majority of men who identity as women from getting jobs reserved for women. Most transgender males do not have a GRC. But it leaves open a loophole for a small number to access these jobs with a GRC. More progress is needed before this is truly fair on women. /8
https://fairplayforwomen.com/new-guidance-for-employers-on-women-only-jobs/