18 results for "equality act 2010"
Non-binary people are entitled to the same quality of gender-affirming healthcare as anyone else, and international guidelines including the WPATH Standards of…
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,…
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…
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…
The government's draft guidance on single-sex spaces contains a direct contradiction: it states that members of the public do not have the right to challenge…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…
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…
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 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 person navigates the quiet dread of leisure-centre changing rooms, develops their strategies, and reaches the ordinary Tuesday when it stops being a…
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…
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…