Last week the Women & Equalities Select Committee agreed with what @fairplaywomen & @Womans_Place_UK and 1000s of women have been saying : we need clear guidance on what @2010Equality says about single sex services and @EHRC should provide ithttps://fairplayforwomen.com/single-sex/
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My briefing argues (1) this must cover the full scope of the single sex exemptions - this is not just about refuges and rape crisis centres (2) It must follow the protected characteristic of sex in
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(3) It should reject the idea of case-by-case assessments of individuals who are of the opposite sex (4) It should reject the criteria of "passing" introduced in previous guidance which is inhumane and potentially humiliating for all
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I might of misunderstood, but I had thought the ‘case by case’ was intended to be ‘service by service’ not ‘person by person’ and was misinterpreted. Did I get that wrong? (Don’t think service by service works either, but interested in the intent of the previous guidance)
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Then I think they need to make this clearer too, as many activists were saying there could be no blanket rule excluding transwomen from any single sex service - that wmeach must be on an judgement of the individual concerned. This is what is being sold to businesses and schools.
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Absolutely!
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