Equalità Il cane da guardia presenta una guida formale dopo la sentenza transgender della Corte suprema del Regno Unito

> The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has handed the guidance to Bridget Phillipson, the minister for women and equalities as well as the education secretary, who must now decide whether to accept it.

> One EHRC source said that while the decision-making on the guidance was restricted to a small group of people around the group’s outgoing chair, Kishwer Falkner, the expectation was that it would closely reflect interim advice released by the watchdog in April.

>with its chair admitting it would be “difficult” for many to shape workable policies.

So For Women Scotland and similar groups are just going to sue everyone for not having policies which follow the guidelines and at best it’ll end back with the courts.

>Falkner, a crossbench peer, said of the advice, which has a statutory basis: “Everybody I speak to, every institution I speak to, says: ‘Can you tell us what we’re supposed to do?’ That’s wrong … they should have been doing it anyway.”

IT’S LITERALLY YOUR FUCKING JOB TO DO EXACTLY THIS.

Trans people don’t just stop existing because the people running the EHRC really dislike us, and the point of contention that organisations are asking about is how trans people are meant to be accommodated in settings like the workplace. Falkner has a searing hatred and feels strongly that it is morally right trans people are not to use the spaces of their gender, but that isn’t the beginning and end of it. The EHRC itself has said since the ruling:

* Trans men should maybe be excluded from women’s spaces, in addition to men’s space
* Trans women must be excluded from women’s spaces, and what does it really matter if they don’t want to use men’s spaces
* Third spaces should maybe be provided, but only in the sense that trans people shouldn’t be left with absolutely nothing. What are the standards that third spaces need to meet? idk fuck you, you should have been doing them already. You don’t have third spaces that can be used currently and know what are your legal obligations for whether you need to provide them? fuck you not my job, I don’t care. Do trans people have a statutory right to use spaces for disabled people or is that an unlawful discrimination against disabled people? fuck you not my job!!! <3
* Organisations that want to operate in an inclusive manner can maybe do it if they have separate provision that comes together, e.g. a woman’s service and a service for trans people that come together and co-operate, but they may get sued by other groups if they do it in the wrong way (e.g. in the prior example, by cis men). What are the exact boundaries on lawful vs unlawful discrimination in this manner? who knows, not us at the EHRC! You should innately know though.

Not that things will get better with Falkner’s replacement, but my god is she so brazenly incompetent and incapable of separating her biases from her work.

The equalities watchdog is clearly led by militants and should be dismantled asap.

So we’ve gone from everyone knows what to do, its simple and there are no problems. To nobody knows what to do, make it up yourself, but fuck trans people especially.

I imagine again they will just ignore the issue of intersex people. People may think its not an issue but we have an estimated 1.1m intersex people in this country compared to about 250k trans people.