Equality and Diversity — sex no longer a protected characteristic

[Shockedandbefuddled]

I know I was late to the party and this has been mentioned elsewhere but I hadn’t realised sex had already been scrapped as a protected characteristic.

Looked at my local council and the Home Office and both have replaced sex with gender. Home Office is a Stonewall top employer.

It’s worse than I thought.

Place marking. I will he checking my local council and my employer's (Russell Group university) websites but I think I know what I will find....Shit is getting real now.

Could someone answer this for me -

It appears there are a lot of Transwomen employees in positions where they can implement/influence change. If these changes are disregarding safeguarding, or are unlawful then shouldn't those employees face disciplinary proceedings?

Am I just being naive

Thanks all - DH didn't understand why I was doing a victory dance when reading that email

@gardenbird48 Definitely write an email. I'm in the South West too, and was expecting a 'Don't you know there's a pandemic? Have you nothing better to do?' response, so I was pleasantly surprised.

Are all GP surgeries supposed to have an equality policy? Mine doesn't appear to have one, at least not on their website. I'm in Scotland if that makes any difference. Thanks

Just been looking at this wrt DH's professional body.

The information in their Equality Diversity and Inclusion policy states that they consulted stakeholders about which protected characteristics they should collect data on. Then says they collect data on all the protected characteristics.

Then there's a bit about how you subdivide the characteristics to gather information (presumably things like which boxes are available to tick for race), and it say it uses the same categories as the ONS so that they can make meaningful comparisons with a information a population level.

THEN it lists the characteristics they collect data on, and sex is not there. Gender is and so is gender identity.

DH is going to write to them but my query really is about the ONS. Surely they have the protected categories correct? There has been talk about the questions on the next census and I know that will include sex, so what on earth are the professional body going on about?