Sorry if my original tweet was ambiguous. I believe the Pink News view of the law to be incorrect. We do not have gender self id in this country so in my view single sex spaces are properly limited to cis women and trans women with a GRC. Which also seems to be Center Parcs view.https://twitter.com/artefactoid/status/1189665758441332736 …
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"Should " maybe but I don't think that's the law. I think trans women with GRC are allowed. But I know others disagree.
The EqA specifically allows for exemption from gender reassignment discrimination in the the case of single sex services. For example a cervical smear test clinic is for women (= females). GRC makes not difference. Similarly a place where women expect bodily privacy from males
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I'm not sure that's right. I think a GRC means you are treated as female for pretty much all legal purposes (subject to some defined exceptions eg peerages). That's separate from the Q of discrimination law protection for trans people. Clearly though if something...
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The EHRC guidance gives the example of rape victims' services as one from which a transwoman with GRC can be excluded.
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...is directly sex based it is practically different. Trans women don't have a cervix so can't have any right to cervical screening!
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