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WESC want evidence of how GRC impacts women. They need look no further than today’s #womenprisonJR. Proof that having a GRC gets males into female only spaces - including males considered too dangerous to have unsupervised contact with women. /1
The GRA2004 meant the MOJ decided to put high-risk trans prisoners on the female prison estate rather than the male one to give them ‘association with other women’ and to deliver ‘female services’. /2
The GRA2004 meant when the MOJ did it’s equality impact assessment on the protected characteristic of sex they didn’t assess the difference between the male-born ‘females’ and the female prisoners. The adverse impact on women in prison never found its way into the assessment /3
We've just been told two ministerial submissions have not been received by the court and claimant's legal team
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There is now a discussion about privileged and non privileged parts of the ministerial submissions. There is a problem with the evidence bundle supplied.
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Judicial review of MOJ transgender prison policies TODAY /1
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"The Claimant will argue that the prison service policies indirectly discriminate against female prisoners &
have failed to have proper regard to the single sex exemptions in the Equality Act, which permit separate
services for men & women in particular limited circumstances" /2
have failed to have proper regard to the single sex exemptions in the Equality Act, which permit separate
services for men & women in particular limited circumstances" /2
"This case is believed to be the first time the
Court will consider the single sex exemptions in the Equality Act 2010"
This case could have implications not only for prisons, but all female-only spaces /3
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Court will consider the single sex exemptions in the Equality Act 2010"
This case could have implications not only for prisons, but all female-only spaces /3
#womenprisonJR
