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.

Ohh 9.15

5000 left

I've sent this to several friends today. Delighted to find that two, who I've never discussed this stuff with before, have already signed. The word is definitely getting out.

I did say around 9:10pm, and I thought it'd be better to underestimate slightly so we could watch it tick over 😊To be honest I'm impressed the rate has remained constant enough over the course of the evening that I was only a few minutes out.

I'm bloody amazed you got it so close!

95,100 🍾🥂
100,000 - 95,100 ÷ 42 = 117 per day

Not my circus, not my monkey @EndlessTea

So nearly 300 in the last 20 minutes.

95457 which means

9000 signatures today

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/623243

4500 left to go

Up by a hundred in a few minutes!

This is as good as watching gardening appeals go up!

Who says we don't know how to have a good time

95,840 signatures

This is genuinely the best IWD I can remember.

Event this morning which was female-only and very honest, at which I discovered some new terfy colleagues, and the excitement of tracking this all day. Lovely.

From the front page of the gov site.

Three of the fat ladies popped back, take a bow Olive, Pearl and Gladys.

I think so many women have peaked since Isla Bryson and his pink leggings that this year it's just one big fuck you to the lot of the them who are trying to claim womanhood

95,902 signatures

@IcakethereforeIam Janice is still shagging the PT instructor! I'll give her this she's got stamina for an old bird!

💚💜⚪

<bows>

I'll say, I hope she's keeping hydrated and weeing regularly. She doesn't want a uti.

@PearlClutch thank you for your service.

95957 which means

9500 signatures so far today!!!

Bloody hell, likely to hit the 96000 mark in the next few minutes.

96000 4000 more signatures needed