Sex Exceptions and Gender Recognition
The Scottish Government says that opening up state mandated gender recognition on a self certification basis will not change women’s rights.
They are wrong.
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Current law is that where an individual has not aquired certified and state-mandated legal sex status then service providers may treat them as their born sex.
So women have female-only provision.
Once a gender recognition certificate has been acquired everything changes.
Instead of straight-forward sex exceptions, women’s rights fall back on those provided by Schedule 3 Paragraph 28 of the Equality Act 2010.
The exceptions which were previously allowed by the Equality Act and the EHRC code are no longer available.
This is what is lost
And this is slightly wider picture of how women’s fall back position of Paragraph 28 works.
I am reliably informed that the correct hashtag is #GavelCrime
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