Listen from 7.50am on @BBCr4today to hear discussion on Stonewall in which Benjamin Cohen CEO P*nk News claims it is untrue that the organisation is campaigning for the removal of the single sex exemptions in the Equality Act… It is. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/li… 1/
Here is what Stonewall are campaigning for: “A review of the Equality Act 2010 to include ‘gender identity’ rather than ‘gender reassignment’ as a protected characteristic and to remove exemptions, such as access to single-sex spaces” stonewall.org.uk/women-and-equa…
Gendered Intelligence “We need a comprehensive review of the legislation affecting trans people (and intersex people) with the aim of deleting the exceptions laid out in the GRA 2004 and EA 2010.” data.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc… 
Scottish Trans Alliance: “remove the exception that allows single sex services to discriminate against trans people” data.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…
So did the @Commonswomequ :”so that the occupational requirements provision and/or the single-sex/separate services provision shall not apply in relation to discrimination against a person whose acquired gender has been recognised under the GRA 2004.” publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201516/cm…
See our blog for more on this including calls to remove the Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) whereby certain jobs can be lawfully restricted to people with a specific protected characteristic. womansplaceuk.org/references-to-…
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