Equality Act - what next?

[ArabellaScott]

The petition to look at this seems sadly to have virtually ground to a halt:

www.mumsnet.com/talk/petitions_noticeboard/4722618-petition-to-update-the-equality-act-thread-2

Government have responded with a dismissive:

'providers are already able to restrict the use of spaces/services on the basis of sex and/or gender reassignment where justified. Further clarification is not necessary.'

What next?

We know that providers, while technically able to exclude males, just do not and will not. Nobody seems to agree on or understand the law fully. Legal experts get in huge tangles arguing about it.

The current situation means women are excluded from many women's spaces, there is no provision for single sex services apart from Beira's Place in Scotland, there are still males in women's prisons, and in hospitals.

What do we do if the government and EHRC won't listen? Whatever the law says, this situation is untenable.

Boiledbeetle · Today 15:43
Thank you for explaining IWD is International Women’s Day

It's done wonders to that 320 average we are after!

For the record, if it's not been posted before, Sharron Davies' tweet

I have been bloody loathing and dreading IWD this year, it's always a particularly heavy day of dropping bullshit on women and reminding them they can have nothing at all. And here we go, this amazing bloody gesture by women for women.

Fabulous, all of them.

To Sharon and JKR

And 92,738 signatures

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/623243

I saw a link a while ago which had a graph of number of signatures/day can anyone remember the link?

This is so satisfying seeing the numbers grow. Thank you JKR and Sharon Davis and Maya Forstater and sex matters and KJK and all you wonderful women

isn't it.

Coming up on another thousand soon

92,890 signatures

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/623243

Now 92951 - that’s 60 in 5 mins 😀

She's not Sharon, she's Sharron.
<stealth bump>

92957

6500 signatures so far today

I’d love to see it double the required amount by April. Fwiw I don’t think they debate them in the HoC do they? I thought they just had small debates in Westminster Hall. Maybe if enough people write to their MP they’ll have it in the HoC

7000 to go

93457 signatures which is an increase of 7000 today!!

We were freezing our bums off in the city centre with a pile of #SexMatters & Keep Prisons Single Sex flyers. Lots of good conversations & at least 3 people signed up then & there, & a lot more took flyers.

Sazzasez · Today 18:43
We were freezing our bums off in the city centre with a pile of #SexMatters & Keep Prisons Single Sex flyers. Lots of good conversations & at least 3 people signed up then & there, & a lot more took flyers

Well done. Was it snowing?

To sign
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/623243

We had the easier job in the warm by the sounds of it.

93,512 signatures less than 6500 to go!!!!!

Well done! That’s brilliant

Superstar!

@Sazzasez

Thank you JK Rowling! You are adored by so many women.

93,772 signatures

It's still going along at quite a pace!

🙌

Heave!