Sunak: I’ll change the Equality Act to protect women’s spaces

[Binglebong]

Sorry to dump and run but this needed sharing.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/06/02/rishi-suank-equality-act-protect-womens-spaces-tory/

Businesses need to know the situation on providing facilities to staff, too.

Is the NHS obliged to allow a man to change with women nurses if he says he ought to be allowed to do so?

Is a small business obliged to allow men to use the women's toilets?

These questions should have very clear answers. I would suggest that no space marked for 'women' should allow men of any kind to use it. Whatever certificate he may have or not have.

Haha at the holiday part

It’s a great post. I’m glad people are looking at this

I think Michael's point about trans inclusion as a means to a proportionate and legitimate aim is a good one. It would allow us to invite the trans ladies to the book club, but not force us to accept them in the changing room.

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We brought the doorstep to them.

Clarification on this matter would also help transpeople.

How many employers currently are wary about hiring a trans person because they don't know if they'll get sued over toilets or changing rooms?

The fuzziness and confusion of the legal situation does not protect trans people.

Make the legal situation very clear, make the law robust and unmistakeable, and that may well make businesses less worried about the potential legal issues.

I hope this happens in schools. I'm all for this!

I agree, but I'm really interested in how Labour and Lib dems will address this and I really hope it comes up at the leadership TV debate 😁

We brought the doorstep to them

Quite.

How much politicians, especially Labour, tried to stop that

They likely still will

Another moment of thanks to all the women who have been speaking up, some to great personal cost

No thanks to those who intentionally made it harder

No one ever has said Labour will quickly fix anything, i wish you wouldn't keep making stuff up, it adds nothing.

The point is, that we have had 14 years of Austerity, now for all i know that has been an excellent policy and one you re fully on side with? but it has made worse provision for women, which Badenoch's plan will not fix.

Change any number of laws, scrap the gRA EQ but if funding for council services is not made good, in practice makes no difference, over the last 14 years the numbers of women murdered each week goes up.

Exactly, you re making some excellent points.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-69082668

Some reporting on BBC live just now.

Yup

It's interesting isn't it. If Freddie the seahorse has miraculously become a man upon receipt of a GRC, Freddie could scarcely legitimately demand access to sperm for the purposes of donor insemination without throwing open the door to pervy Peter (no female identity) also demanding access to sperm. One would think.

Too little too late Rishi, you are comprehensively stuffed.

Do you welcome Labour’s proposals on Self ID via GP or medic over EqA change?

If so, women and girls will continue to be comprehensively stuffed.

TRAs will be happy

Neale Hanvey. Also retweeting Alastair Campbell:

x.com/jnhanvey/status/1797559234730561973?s=46&t=WHoOZ_3Kv5G6-FyQuvE0LQ

"I may disagree with @KemiBadenoch on many things, but as minister for women & equality she has been excellent.

Campbell betrays @UKLabour’s contempt for women children and LGB people by distorting the defence of sex-based rights and safeguarding as an attack on men’s wants and needs.

Labour can’t be trusted.

#ALBAequalities
🗳️#VoteHANVEY #VoteALBA"

I didn't say 'you' had said Labour will quickly fix anything. I am saying others elsewhere have been saying it.

You keep telling me I am making stuff up, well you keep using this '14 years' as some kind of false timeline to make the Tories look even worse than they are. You are not the only one. It is a false timeline when you look at it. The only think that is factual about it is that they have been in power for 14 years. But other than that, it is an irrelevant point that you keep bringing up.

Now you have just attempted to leverage women's murders to somehow detract from us discussing this issue.

So, which is it? We shouldn't be discussing how this can work because 'well, it is pointless because of funding' or we should be discussing how this can work.

It's almost as though some people are pissed off that this has become part of the election dialogue? They are certainly far more vocal about it today, when it has become part of the news cycle, than they did when it was entirely missing from the agenda last week. 🤔

@EasternStandard Labour are not proposing self-ID. Saying they are is deliberately misleading. I don't know why you would choose to do that.

Labour are proposing streamlining it - after consultation. At the moment it costs £5 ( bought in under the Tories) but needs a panel of medics. That means it's expensive to the public purse, taking uo scarce resource that could be treating patients who need it, and is likely to be unnecessarily time consuming and inefficient in having to coordinate.

It seems sensible to make the process more efficient. 5000 people have a GRC. Making it so one doctor signs it off instead of several is not going to change the price of fish in terms of numbers of trans people. And it is nothing like "self-ID".

The Conservatives haven't proposed repealing the GRA - why is that?

The issue being discussed here will not improve any provision for women? At all?

And you talk about people 'making stuff up'.

Do you support a single GP sign off for the application and then it simply rubber stamped?

Kemi Badenoch originally said they were going go change the EA well over a year ago. Then has sat on it.
They had the majority to do it in this parliament. They are unlikely to have the majority to do so in the next. I think she has stalled to use the change to score electoral points (as per the Lee Anderson strategy) rather than doing her job and getting it through this parliament, if it's so important to protect women and girls.
It's cynical and they must think women are stupid.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/lee-anderson-tories-election-trans-b2282185.html

Of course they’re pissed off

Labour are wedded to gender ideology and they don’t want that exposed