meditrina - "Nobody should ever feel pressured to touch anyone else’s genitals for whatever reason"
Those people should not be working in a journey b which includes genital contact tyhen.
Just like Christians cannot any longer offer services only to Christians, really. The core principle was established long ago. No-one came forthe Christians, said actually they are right and should be able to offer services only within their belief system. They said they must change mods or close.
This is, unfortunately, exactly the same. And the principle that if you offer services they must be inclusive, has been the established norm for a couple of decades now.
These service providers probably need to change the range or type of services they offer. Just as all those who went before them have had to do, so that all goods and services are inclusive.
Thankfully, this is completely wrong, at least under UK law.
The EA makes specific provision for the legality of single sex service provision:
www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/schedule/3/part/7/crossheading/singlesex-services
The women would be protected under sub-paragraph 7:
(7)The condition is that—
(a)there is likely to be physical contact between a person (A) to whom the service is provided and another person (B), and
(b)B might reasonably object if A were not of the same sex as B.
The explanatory notes make it very clear -
734.Single sex services are permitted where: ...
they may involve physical contact between a user and someone else and that other person may reasonably object if the user is of the opposite sex.
And among the examples of what the exceptions would allow:
a massage service to be provided to women only by a female massage therapist with her own business operating in her clients’ homes because she would feel uncomfortable massaging men in that environment.
The service doesn't even have to involve touching genitals, just physical contact.