45 results for "equality"
I'm Dr Helen Webberley. I'm a doctor, a mum, and a gender specialist, and for the last decade and more I've spent most of my waking hours learning everything I…
Non-binary people are entitled to the same quality of gender-affirming healthcare as anyone else, and international guidelines including the WPATH Standards of…
What is a woman anyway? It's the question everyone suddenly thinks they're philosophers about. So let's try it their way. Is it chromosomes, makeup, dresses?…
Misgendering means using the wrong pronouns or gender for someone, and deadnaming means using the name they were given at birth after they have asked you to…
If you are looking for a neat biological checkbox, you have missed the point, and the century. The truth is simple: trans women are women, trans men are men,…
Legally transitioning means changing your legal documents so they reflect who you are, and the most significant of those is your birth certificate. In the UK,…
Trans rights are the defining civil rights struggle of our generation, as race equality was in the 1960s and gay rights were in the decades that followed. I…
I'm Dr Helen Webberley, a doctor, a mum, and a gender specialist. Over the last ten years I've learned everything I can about gender identity and what it means…
Without a Gender Recognition Certificate, a death certificate in England and Wales will generally record the gender on the birth certificate rather than a…
When workplace materials use dehumanising language about trans people, the right move is to act now rather than wait. Document the specific language, raise it…
The only debate worth having about trans people is how to help them live their lives more easily. Every other framing, whether trans people exist, whether they…
When people claim to be standing up for women by opposing trans rights, they are not being honest. The parameters of who counts as a real woman keep narrowing,…
Trans patients in NHS hospitals are protected under the Equality Act 2010 through the characteristic of gender reassignment, and that includes the right to…
Trans people in prison have legal rights to dignity, safety, and protection from discrimination. The Equality Act 2010 protects them through the characteristic…
Paul Mescal publicly declared his support for the trans community ahead of London Trans+ Pride this July, stating: "I'm incredibly proud to stand in support of…
The government's draft guidance on single-sex spaces contains a direct contradiction: it states that members of the public do not have the right to challenge…
The EHRC's draft code of practice, published after the Supreme Court's ruling in For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers, is built on the premise that…
The government's own Equality Impact Assessment warns that directing trans women away from women's services creates a disproportionate risk of violence and…
The harm caused by transphobia is not abstract. It manifests in anxiety, depression, self-harm, and suicide attempts, disproportionately and consistently,…
Angela Y Davis argues that refusing to acknowledge the full diversity of gender, cisgender, transgender, gender fluid, and gender non-conforming, disarms…
Trans women are women, and the refusal to recognise them as such follows a well-documented historical pattern. Angela Y Davis has shown how Black women were…
The real dangers women face are domestic abuse, sexual violence, street harassment, and coercive control, not trans people in bathrooms. Trans people make up…
It's time to really understand the beauty of diversity, the meaning of equality, and how to include everyone so that we all have a place in this world.…
Maya spent the whole summer rehearsing a two-minute conversation with her headteacher, then burst out laughing halfway through because her hands would not stop…
A trans woman learns to navigate the daily calculation of which door to push open, and discovers that the law and lived reality rarely feel the same.
A trans woman travels alone for the first time on a new passport and discovers that the planning was the point all along.
Marco had avoided swimming for a decade until top surgery gave him back something he hadn't dared name as lost.
A person waits years on a public list before the kitchen-table sums finally tip: they go private, and arrive at relief and anger at exactly the same moment.
Eleni knew her son before any school policy did, and spent months quoting the school's own rules back to staff until he was simply allowed to be himself in…
Rachel rehearsed the worst for months before she told the firm she had worked at for twenty-two years, and then a junior colleague simply offered to make her a…
A trans person navigates the quiet dread of leisure-centre changing rooms, develops their strategies, and reaches the ordinary Tuesday when it stops being a…
A new Gallup poll shows LGBTQ+ support falling for the second year running, but the decline is driven almost entirely by Republicans, whose backing for…
Tara Foster, a LibDem campaigner and LGBT+ LibDems Executive member, has published a detailed roadmap for restoring trans and LGBTQ+ rights in the UK. Her core…
More than a hundred trans rights supporters marched through Oxford on 30 March, organised by Oxford 4 Trans Rights in response to the EHRC's draft code of…
The BMA's LGBTQ+ equality page makes strong commitments: no discrimination, trans people's right to dignity, a call for conversion therapy bans, and guidance…
Oxford 4 Trans Rights is holding a protest in Bonn Square, Oxford, on Saturday at 3pm, in response to updated draft guidance from the Equality and Human Rights…
HMRC's PD1 hotline exists to protect the confidentiality of trans taxpayers with a Gender Recognition Certificate, not to give them a privilege. Their records…
Oxford's University, Student Union, and Somerville College have all responded to the EHRC's updated draft Code of Practice by reaffirming their commitment to…
Alexandra Parmar-Yee's Guardian piece names what is happening to trans people in the UK as segregation, and the word is exactly right. Through the combined…
One year after the UK Supreme Court's ruling on the Equality Act, trans rights supporters gathered in York to call for clearer national protections and an end…
Helen reflects on Sir Ian McKellen's comments about the importance of visibility and what it means for trans communities moving forward.
A recent tribunal case highlights the importance of robust equality, diversity and inclusion policies in the workplace.
The government's own Equality Impact Assessment warns of disproportionate risk of violence and sexual assault against trans women if they are forced into men's…
The Gender Recognition Act was designed to enable people to correct their birth certificate. The Equality Act was there to protect people from discrimination.…
It's time to really understand the beauty of diversity, the meaning of equality, and how to include everyone so that we all have a place in this world.