Predictions for when Bridget Phillipson will lay the EHRC code of practice before parliament (with poll)

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What do you think? Will it ever happen?

Unfortunately he didn't come right out and say that, because he didn't accept that mixed-sex provision has been proved always to constitute indirect sex-discrimination against women. The draft guidance doesn't even say that - only that it's likely.

Urgh, Phillipson is sneaking out big 'leaks' of the SEND reform doc (still not letting go the actual doc itself) all hidden behind the Andrew formerly known as Prince. Cowards, all of them.

I voted Other because the way things are going not just in the UK but elsewhere anything could happen.

So may Other is that a combination of Stamer making yet another legal bungle, another Government U turn, in fighting in the Labour Party leads to a vote of not confidence in the HoC and then a General Election.

Then a Reform Conservatice Combo (or rather a re-merging of the Conservative Party) gets into power.

And Kemi Badenoch displaced by one of the many men thinking they would be a good leader is offered the consolation prize of becoming Minister for Women. But only for long enough to put right the Labour Party how long can we string this out tactics. Because the EA will be withdrawn and all of this discussion about women will no longer be relevant as there will be no EA as a point of reference.

She’s worse than a paperweight. At least paperweights have their uses.

What makes her refusal to lay the guidance before parliament so unforgivable is that she KNOWS that businesses and services across the country are using this delay as an excuse not to implement the law RIGHT NOW as they should. Deliberately putting women and girls at risk and putting those stubborn businesses and services at risk of legal action too.
There's really no excuse.

I am expecting the release to be on Monday. I think the leaks are coming from the briefings the would be happening in preparation for this

Exactly. It’s not within the gift of ministers or parliament to change EHRC statutory guidance.

I think she originally said further information from the EHRC and the EHRC said they had provided all of the information needed to support the guidance. She is now saying that thanks to the change of leadership at the EHRC the problems are resolved or resolving. The EHRC, under new leadership, are standing by the guidance, so she has run out of road in terms of delay - but seems to be using the Trump playbook and just doing whatever she pleases.

Yes, I've seen rumours to this effect.

Apologies, I was referring to the SEND white paper on Monday, not the EHRC guidance. I guess both on the same day could be a ripping off the plaster strategy. I think the SEND paper is going to generate a lot of noise that won’t go away. I think the interest in the EHRC guidance is easier to bury/ marginalise

Bridget getting aerated about the CoP not applying to employers yet the biggest employer refusing to act on the Supreme Court judgment is the government!!

https://x.com/JournalismSEEN/status/2025555552902754350?s=20

Sorry I'm late replying to
Debating whether to keep the alarm bit in. What do people think? Keep
I think the first main para is v useful, leave out the bit after 'Devices like...'

You could just have single sex toilets within a single sex environment.
This is not just better for reasons of - what did Judge Swift call it? the provision of private space for each sex for reasons of conventional decency. [35]
and the health and safety issues you highlight so well.

Single sex provision is also simpler and more resilient - the fewer 'moving parts' in a system, the better.

I'm a huge fan of simplicity and resilience, [aka Keeptoiletssimple😄]
and 'simple and resilient' also often means cheaper - cheaper to install, and cheaper to run. This should appeal to an educational system in a country which is not exactly overflowing with resources for the likes of putting alarm systems in every school.

I'm not saying that infinite amounts of money can't or won't be found if it's at the noisy and sometimes violent behest of the tiny trans community, but I do believe in pointing out the economic cost of all these fourth spaces and unpopular mixed sex spaces and alarms to attempt to make them safe.. all for such a small % of the population.

Thanks @MarieDeGournay . When you look at design, the unisex designs have all been tried before and failed before.
Unisex toilets don’t work. Accessible ones are needed and have to be in place so should be our most looked after, but the disadvantages they suffer are the same as the unisex ones. They cost councils so much money only for them to be removed.
This makes me laugh for the sheer awfulness and relatability of that poor woman with people on the bus looking at her….
https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/gallery/hulls-superloos-truth-behind-nightmarish-8611659

She is not a good speaker, she sounds annoyed, flustered and uncertain.

And not even poor Trevor can get his sentences around gender and sex and what means what.

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Apparently RADAR keys may open some accessible loo doors even if the current user has locked it

https://youtube.com/shorts/ZEajjbY6qRQ?si=BXt-H0xat9YLcE7B

I never trusted the electronic locks that were on some train toilets although it's been a minute since I've seen one.

She is like a broken record. It's getting embarrassing.