The Government has updated its guidance on 'Gender Pay Gap' reporting to now clearly state it refers to biological sex, not self-declared 'gender' and that GRCs must be ignored

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https://x.com/zeno001/status/2057740677417451822?s=20

Brilliant. Thanks for highlighting.

Ooh that’s great news!! Those dominoes are falling quickly.
Cue much rending of garments and sackcloth (or something) from the trans activists.

The amusing thing is that employers will have to judge what people's sex actually is.

Did your employee use a passport for the right to work check? Ah, the sex marker on that might be false.

With a GRC, birth certificates can be falsified.

Obviously if Dave became Davina whilst working for you, it's a bit easier.

Exactly. The data will still be inaccurate as long as passports, driving licenses, and birth certificates are essentially self ID for sex. We can see the same problem in the guidance for service providers. A person can show official documents with the wrong sex on them, leaving services in very awkward situations wondering what they can do. It's the governments fault, it all needs changing, and the Gender Recognition Act needs repealing.

I'm pleased to see this. All the fuss about toilets (and I do understand that they are important, but they are not the only thing that matters) risked obscuring the fact that protection against sex discrimination is only possible if you are clear what is meant by 'sex'.

It should be called the "sex pay gap" since it relates to sex, not gender.

Agree, at least a bit of good news, finally (and which I am capable of understanding!)

Thanks for posting this, another email to HR upcoming.
To give a view of how this plays out: in my (American) employers HR system there is no option for sex. There is only an option for gender, so for the past couple of years I have been down as "prefer not to say". I have pointed that this is incorrect as I am a woman and my sex is female and I am happy to confirm this to anyone. I have also pointed out that it feels discriminatory that my employer can not recognise that I am a woman.
Subsequently I have requested confirmation that I am excluded from their gender pay gap reporting for the past couple.of years which they have confirmed is the case.

True. But only because the concept of gender being anything other than a synonym for sex was wholly invented since the term gender pay gap was.

Or "pay gap between the sexes".

Longer, clunkier but clearer.

Now we're suckin diesel

I genuinely have felt sorry for a lot of reddit users the last few days, their responses to the law being made clear show how terribly badly they have been misled, lied to and let down. So many people with dubious mental health told that reality was something quite unlike that which it actually is. I believe some of them when they say they are terrified; their fears are groundless but they have been so brainwashed and manipulated that I am sure they are genuinely felt.

I completely agree it’s a feeling of pity and sorrow that people with serious mental health issues have not been helped and supported with high-quality mental health support in the round they absolutely deserve it. They absolutely should have it and they don’t.

https://www.reddit.com/r/transgenderUK/comments/1tl7q2x/employees_will_be_asked_for_their_biological_sex/

Stop right there! It was the whole "be kind" mantra that helped to create this mess.

Some people really are two cans short of a sixpack, aren't they?

“Creationist sex”

I only mean get them a therapist that doesn’t say they are woman not let them in the ladies!!

Agree, I don't think "being kind" is in any way helpful here. Even if there had always been gold-standard, private, one-to-one mental health support for every single person in this country, none of it would have mattered because the people in charge of our institutions refused to say no to a movement of activists throwing tantrums.

Any organisation now asking for gender rather than sex in any capacity is now on very dodgy ground. They can ask for gender as well as sex but a failure to ask for sex whilst asking for gender is a complete no no.

This will be one of the things that will work out in the wash.

Lying about your sex under certain circumstances will also become a massive no no (eg if taking part in a medical study or as part of a safeguarding disclosure) even if you have a GRC because of the impact on others. It will become a red flag if someone is being treated in hospital and it's picked up that they haven't disclosed their sex if relevant.

This is how it should be. Activists can grumble all they fucking like. The entire point of our human rights and equality rights legislation is to balance, compromise and protect the interests of EVERYONE. Shocking huh?

This is where narcs are going to become unstuck because it's not all about them. Everyone else will just get on with it. Its not a trans issue - it's a selfish narcissist issue.

Charity shop polyester rather than "sackckoth" I'd say from seeing far too much TRA style

Why is this my fucking problem?

I've been saying this for over a decade. All the people telling me to be kind shit all over these people - they can take responsibility for it and deal with it. I've taken that responsibility a long time ago and said this is harming trans people and I'm not going to indulge them by 'being kind'. Frankly many need a reality check, a rocket up the arse and being told to stop naval gazing because pandering and supporting their avoidant behaviour has been the problem in the first place. It's been unkind to fail to say no.