Sex Matters Update: Roadmap to Define ‘Sex’, ‘Men’ and ‘Women’ in Law Northern Ireland

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Sex Matters' newsletter mentions that the Equality Commission for NI are running a consultation due to close on the 19th September.

ECNI states:
"We have been progressing our six-step roadmap, which seeks to provide greater legal clarity on the definitions of ‘sex’, ‘men’, and ‘women’ under the Sex Discrimination (NI) Order 1976). Seeking legal clarity from the High Court will assist the Commission to develop final guidance for employers and service providers that is credible, workable and accurate. The aim of this strategy is to avoid litigation that would inevitably arise without greater legal certainty and could last many years."

Here's the relevant link so that interested parties can complete the consultation if they wish:
https://www.equalityni.org/scjconsultation

Here's the link to ECNI from Sex Matters' newsletter:
https://www.equalityni.org/Footer-Links/News/Delivering-Equality/Roadmap-to-Define-%E2%80%98Sex%E2%80%99,-%E2%80%98Men%E2%80%99-and-%E2%80%98Women%E2%80%99-in-Law

Thank you for sharing. I wasn’t aware of this so shall take a read over it.

It was news to me too so I’m glad that SM included it in their newsletter otherwise I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to respond to the consultation.

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Thank you very much 💐

We are getting a lot of zombie thread revivals at the moment with lots of spam comments 🤷‍♀️ And threads to do with NI get very little traction or engagement at the best of times 😞

Thank you for flagging this!

You're very welcome. It certainly wasn't widely reported/publicised and I wouldn't have known about it except for the Sex Matters newsletter so I thought I'd let other people know about it too 👍

Thanks for posting - I'd probably have missed it otherwise.