For all 3, A engages in unwanted conduct which violates B’s dignity or creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for B (if not deliberate, it must be reasonable for B to experience it that way)..
2/ The first kind of harassment is where the conduct is "related to" sex. This is broad. Eg:
- telling sexist jokes
- putting sexually explicit posters up
- saying “hiya, big tits” to a woman
- calling a man “a bald c*nt*” (even though some women are also bald)...
3/ The second kind of harassment is where the conduct is “of a sexual nature”. Eg:
- sexual touching
- physical “horseplay”
- sexual comments directed at B
In addition to being liable for this kind of harassment, employers have a duty to prevent it…
4/ The third potentially relevant kind of harassment is where B is treated less favourably:
- because she rejected or submitted to the conduct, and
- the conduct was either of a sexual nature or was related to gender reassignment or sex
NB “related to” is broad: see 2 above.
5/ In my view, it's strongly arguable that wearing giant prosthetic breasts at work is conduct related to sex. Then the question is whether it's either deliberately violating women's dignity etc or it's reasonable for women to feel that way...
6/ If wearing the giant prosthetic breasts at work is connected to the man identifying as trans, it's arguable that it's conduct related to gender reassignment. If so, a woman employee must not be treated less favourably for objecting to it.
7/ Wearing giant prosthetic breasts at work is less likely to be conduct of a sexual nature, but depending on the circumstances it might be. In which case, the employer has a duty to prevent it.
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1 I’m sure @NadiaWhittomeMP will be correcting the Parliamentary record at her earliest opportunity and withdrawing her statement that the @EHRC interim update went “far beyond even the Supreme Court ruling”. Swift J rejected that argument in R (GLP) v EHRC [2026] ⤵️
“The SC had the unenviable job of attempting to interpret the will of Parliament”: this is a metaphor for “the meaning of the statutory words with regard to their context & the purpose of the legislation”, not "what MPs thought when they passed it" ⤵️
3 It’s therefore irrelevant which Party was in government at the time and what their preferences were.
Nonetheless, it’s good to see that @NadiaWhittomeMP has recognised that the only way around the Supreme Court judgment for transactivists is legislative change ⤵️
The judgment was *only* about whether the c.10k trans people with Gender Recognition Certificates should be treated as the opposite sex under the Equality Act
*The Supreme Court decided that they should not*
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Any service already operating lawfully should have had no difficulty in adapting to the SC judgment
But vast numbers of services and employers were already acting unlawfully because lobby groups like @stonewalluk told them to. And now they can't work out how to get out of it
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Here Jolyon says, disgracefully, that “the judiciary can’t be trusted always” and that the judgment in GLP’s judicial review against EHRC is “really ugly”. He tells people not to believe what the media says, because it’s apparently “not quite true” that the Claimants lost.../1
It is, of course, 100% true. GLP lost on standing, and the other Claimants lost on every substantive ground.
Jolyon also refers to the “fact” that the judge “has agreed with [GLP] about service provision outside the workplace”.../2
There is no such fact. The interim update said (in effect) that a “trans-inclusive” women’s service would result in direct sex discrimination against the men who are excluded from it. The judge thought it *arguable* that that would not be the case in *some* factual scenarios.../3
The position is this:
Facilities in services (eg changing rooms in leisure centres, public toilets) can be provided on a single-sex basis under Sch 3 §§26-27 of the Equality Act 2010. There are various conditions in Sch 3 that have to be met, including that the service is.../1
a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim. The EA doesn’t say that services have to provide single-sex facilities, but it might be direct or indirect discrimination against women to fail to provide them, depending on the facts.../2
The relevant parts of the revised Code of Practice are essentially about how Sch 3 EA works. But Sch 3 EA doesn’t cover workplaces. They are subject to the Workplace (Health, Safety & Welfare) Regulations 1992, which require workers to be provided with toilets and, where.../3
I expect the misleading headline and first para of this article to be urgently corrected. Trans people's rights haven't been reduced and I didn't at any time say that they had. I said that trans people have been lied to about what their rights are.