WEC to question the EHRC Chair and Chief Executive 11 June 2025 2:20pm

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The Women and Equalities Committee (WEC) will question the Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Baroness Falkner of Margravine in Parliament on Wednesday, 11 June during its annual scrutiny session of the EHRC.

Venue: The Thatcher Room, Portcullis House
Watch live: Visit parliamentlive.tv Women and Equalities Committee

The Women and Equalities Committee (WEC) will question the Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Baroness Falkner of Margravine in Parliament on Wednesday, 11 June during its annual scrutiny session of the EHRC.

MPs on the cross-party committee, chaired by Labour MP Sarah Owen, will discuss the EHRC’s work and resources and wider equalities policy, including the implications of the For Women Scotland Supreme Court judgment and the EHRC’s subsequent consultation on the Code of Practice.

The Committee will hear from the EHRC’s Chief Executive, John Kirkpatrick, alongside Baroness Falkner.

Witnesses
Starting at 2.20pm
Baroness Kishwer Falkner of Margravine, Chair, Equality and Human Rights Commission
John Kirkpatrick, Chief Executive, Equality and Human Rights Commission

https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/328/women-and-equalities-committee/news/207403/wec-to-question-the-ehrc-chair-and-chief-executive/

(I came across this by chance whilst looking for a date for the WEC interview with Mary-Ann Stephenson but could find nothing - anybody know when it will be.)

Thank you. I missed that, sorry.

I don’t know what she looks like. “Can you tell I’m a cisgender woman” yes we can tell what sex you are 🙄

Cant recognise Chair from images here https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/328/women-and-equalities-committee/membership/

I’m glad Rosie Duffield has someone who thinks women should have rights beside her. It is obviously very hostile against women’s rights at this Committee. It should be renamed ‘The Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples and the propagation of blokes trampling over women’s rights faith’.

I’m actually gobsmacked how awful they are about women’s rights. All are women who are prioritising the desires of men to erode that.

It is now beyond apparent that the only 'women' the committee care about are men who identify as women.

This brief must now be split. The pushing of men's rights is not compatible with holding the brief for women's rights, the two things are now obviously in direct conflict, and the committee is not even pretending to care about women's rights or interests now. Their sole declared interest is in the destruction of women's rights to enable men.

Sex Matters, can we have a letter, a petition? This is appalling. They actually want the legal protections and equalities for women and homosexuals to be destroyed so that men can use women as they wish.

Do we call people hermaphrodites when they have DSDs now?

They haven’t “lost the right” to use women’s spaces. Men were never legally given a right to use women’s spaces.

Thank you. Just watching from start. The chair is fucking rude and hostile from the off. 🤬

It’s not an “interim judgment” facepalm

Blinkin’ heck! The chair said that the question about sports wasn’t relevant as the SC case was about places on Boards. So, she said Rebecca’s question about sports wasn’t relevant. Then Rebecca had to come back and say it was about the definition of sex in the Equality Act and does indeed cover sports.

Rosie wonderfully and ironically then had a question about misinformation. Imagine that! The Chair of the Committee saying that women’s sports was not relevant to the SC decision. Thank goodness she was immediately corrected.
(bit of paraphrasing)

The chair is smug, arrogant and clueless. Why are the WESC always so awful?

I think that was trying to insert the notion that people can be two sexes at once.

Ah yes, I see they might want to do that @Cailleach1

Intersex people are not between sexes. Can't she just say that? :D

What do they think Falkner should do, ignore the SC judgment? 🙄

This is just part of the campaign to make out the problem is her as an individual.

None of them have acknowledged the bullying etc., she has endured. She / the EHRC are just doing their job.

As an earlier questioner said seems to me it is up to Parliament to make a better act.

Liked Rebecca’s input.

In the earlier part if was really interesting that the Committee was trying to say that previously the EHRC had given different guidance and Falkner tactifully said we had to asses if anything had to said in error.

Meaning she was bought in by the Tories because it became clear that the EHRC had been captured. ie the TRAs in the EHRC had been giving out deliberately wrong advice.

And Labour MPs are obviously that the EHRC has been uncaptured.

That's why it will be really interesting to see how robust Mary-Ann Stephenson will turn out to be.

So basically what is going on is an attempt to get back the power positions the TRAs thought they had captured.

Worryingly a Labour Government could reverse this deStonewalling of the EHRC.

Yes it’s up to Parliament to change the law and I’m sure lobbying is going on furiously behind the scenes.

Yes there is only Rebecca and Rosie. Is it chance they are sitting beside each other.

She referred to a “course correction” when referring to uncapturing the EHRC. Good use of language.

I’m on that bit now! What a plum. Cringing.

I like this CEO guy too. He’s given some good, unarguable answers.

Oh Jane Fae doesn’t agree with the guidance? Heaven forbid.

I was truly shocked by that. Has the chair read the SC ruling or the EqA 2010? Basic homework surely?