100,000 signatures on the Equality Act - What next

[MForstater]

Thank you everyone for your amazing work promoting the petition. It all got quite exciting!

What next?

It will stay open till April 20th and its good to keep getting more people to sign. We will try to get some more press coverage of it.

The main thing now is to write to MPs and encourage them to show interest and for them to write to the Petitions Committee and to Kemi. (257 people have already today!)

We have a webinar planned for the end of March on how we think the Equality Act and the GRA interact and why and how the law needs to be clarified.

Happy to answer questions on here too.

sex-matters.org/take-action/write-to-your-mp-about-the-petition/

She hasn’t addressed the point at all that the principles of the Equality Act, where related to its sex based exceptions, cannot always be applied as intended due to the definition of sex as male and female now days needing the further clarity that “sex” is biological, not the legal fiction version created by a GRC.

If she is proud of the Equality Act why doesn’t she want it to work as originally intended?

I assure you that I will continue to stand by the Equality Act and will oppose any attempts by the Government to weaken its protections for people with protected characteristics.

The protected characteristic of sex has been weakened and this can affect men as well as women.

The protected characteristic of “sex” will lose any meaning whatsoever, if the EA isn’t updated to make clear it is biological, and Labour bring in self-ID.

I do not quite understand what she means about a new Race Equality Act as there is already the protected characteristic of
race including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin.