Ann Sinnott is asking for clarity on guidance for the Equality Act

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around the guidance for the Equality Act 2010, and is crowdfunding for a judicial review. Thought I ought to spread the word.

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Excellent news.

Wow. This could be massive. I've left my spade around here somewhere, oh yes there it is.

Thank you for posting OP. I've been praying for something like this to happen for so long. (I guess most of us have).

Definitely. We need to know the official line on this. Good luck to her.

What words or phrases would it be useful to enter into a search engine, if one wanted to do some gardening?

Needs to raise £20,000 in 29 days, we are all going to have to dig in again but these challenges are our best bet for making changes

For the thick'uns me who is Ann and what does she want to achieve?

Phew found it - those tweets are being deleted fast though!

To find it go onto the crowd justice site and search 'Ann Sinnott'

@BlackeyedSusan

For the thick'uns me who is Ann and what does she want to achieve?

I imagine she wants the guidance put out by a bunch of unelected civil servants to match the law agreed by parliament.

Have pledged, but not added any extra for Crowd Justice, given their previous bad behaviour.
Ann Sinnott is a very brave woman.

100pc digging for this. And yes Crowd Justice can go to hell.

Here's an earlier thread about Ann Sinnott which gives some background:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3376567-anne-sinnott-vindicated-she-was-right

BlackeyedSusan

Ann Sinnott - I am a former Cambridge City Councillor. I resigned because the council was in breach of the 2010 Equality Act. Subsequently, I set up AEA to promote the interests of women and girls.

Official sources provide unlawful guidance on the 2010 Equality Act!

Yes, you read that right! It's shocking, isn't it?

For nearly 10 years, unlawful guidance on the 2010 Equality Act (EA2020) has been displayed on the website of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and on the Government Equalities Office (GEO) website for 5 years.

Over these ten years, the guidance has been widely accessed and further disseminated by countless organisations of all types. As a result, the unlawful guidance is reflected in the equality policies of organisations and institutions throughout the UK.

EHRC and GEO guidance is in breach of EA2010, Schedule 3, Sections 26, 27 and 28

This is a legal case to ensure that EA2010 guidance accurately reflects the Act.

Here’s the article with the background on The EHRC

uncommongroundmedia.com/the-2010-equality-act-is-being-undermined-by-official-guidance/

@BlackeyedSusan

For the thick'uns me who is Ann and what does she want to achieve?

It's under the Judicial review tag on the crowdjustice website

Yes, she is challenging the guidance that the equality and human rights commission and government equalities office have been disseminating for the best part of five years, I believe?

The Government Equalities Office (GEO), which funds the EHRC, goes even further. Its guide, ‘Providing services for transgender customers’, states that all trans persons [no GRC in sight here]should be free to select whichever facility they choose. The guide also states that not allowing a transwoman access to women-only spaces is direct discrimination – which is also incorrect. That GEO guidance has been in circulation since 2015.

Anne has apparently raised this several times to no avail.

This wrong information has been disseminated across the board. And very many places are still using it.

So when, for instance, the girl guides say we need to treat trans girls as girls, the advice they would be relying on is that of the EHRC. Who are not interpreting the law correctly.

That is my understanding.

It's a pivotal part of the ongoing annihilation of women's rights. The EHRC and the GEO need to explain, PDQ, why tell they allowed incorrect information to given out at the expense of women's sex based, legal rights.

She could also reach out to some people who made headlines recently.

Sorry! Replied to the wrong post that was meant for sultanasofa

This is where Anne explains.

uncommongroundmedia.com/the-2010-equality-act-is-being-undermined-by-official-guidance/

As a result of complaints, in Oct 2018 the EHRC amended two pieces of guidance which stated that transwomen with a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) must not be refused access to women-only spaces – guidance which actually contravenes the Equality Act. Here’s the actual statement:

‘Where someone has a gender recognition certificate they should be treated in their acquired gender for all purposes and therefore should not be excluded from single-sex services.’

Though that statement was removed from the EHRC guidance referred to above, it remains in a plethora of other EHRC guidance.

Money to Ann, no tips fpr Crowd Justice after their previous behaviour though.

It's a big amount for a shortish time. I hope she reaches her target.

Thank you for all the explanations. That is huge.

@BlackeyedSusan

Thank you for all the explanations. That is huge.

It is.

Massive.

This is fantastic, and great to see so many gardeners already. Does it normally show the CJ tips? Only there's not a single one on there that I can see so far.

Well, if they wanted tips they shouldn't have done what they did. It was disgraceful.