What are the protected characteristics?

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This site has been sent to me by my child's secondary school:
www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/equality-act/protected-characteristics
and it says that the 9 protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010 are:

age
disability
gender reassignment
marriage and civil partnership
pregnancy and maternity
race
religion or belief
sex
sexual orientation

Is gender eassignment a protected characteristic? I didn't think it was?

That’s right.
gender reassignment NOT gender identity

Although AFAIK, gender reassignment just means a person is intending to change gender. They don’t have to have had surgery or be taking hormones or anything

Number 7

I watched a webinar yesterday as I have a colleague who is transitioning. The protection begins as soon as they begin the transition, so as soon as they start to wear the clothes or change their name or pronouns. Gender fluidity is also protected under gender reassignment.

Ah ok - I had missed the nuance - gender reassignment, not gender identity.

Obvioulsy I can see the above, once someone staes that they are 'beginning transition' - but what are they transitioning to and from? A gender identity surely?

Anyway, as long as the info they are giving is technically accurate.

Although does that mean calling someone 'a boy who wants to be a girl' is the same as 'a girl' and that both will be counted (and punished) under the updated disciminatory language policy they were communuicating about?

iI so - 1984 for school kids, lovely.

The Equality Act 2010 says that you must not be discriminated against because you are transsexual, when your gender identity is different from the sex assigned to you when you were born.

They have used the wrong wording ‘assigned to you when you were born.’ This is obfuscating, transgender, ideologically loaded speech.

Let your DC know what ‘to assign’ means, and explain that that was not what happened when they were born.

The wording in the Government legislation
www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/notes/division/3/2/1/4 puts it differently.

Here is a very good video about what determines sex at conception.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=4Dd8Ow8bA-Q

Here are government legislation explanatory notes for ‘gender reassignment’ to explain how a person with the protected characteristic ‘gender reassignment’ can legally be discriminated against in certain circumstances.
www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/notes/division/3/16/26/1#:~:text=The%20exception%20applies%20where%20being,sex%2C%20does%20not%20meet%20it

Thankyou. I have a Biology degree luckily 😁so my children know that 'assigned at birth' is bollocks .

I'm just twitchy about this in schools as they now get a maximum level detention for any discriminatory language based on the protected characteristics, which I fully support of course when it come to sexism, racism or bigotry about people being gay, but I don't want children being given 'maximum level' punishment for 'misgendering' , especially when it's so easy to do by mistake and people can change their demanded pronouns at the drop of a hat, withouy other people realisng (and, of course, it's nonsense).

Correctly seeing someone is not discriminatory. In fact trying to force someone to state that a boy is a girl against the evidence of their eyes or personal beliefs would be both compiled speach (against EU human rights legislation) and discriminating on grounds of protected beliefs (equality act and EU human rights legislation) so the school will be on a sticky wicket if they punish anyone for "miss gendering" ie correctly seeing someone.

Sexing not seeing