Philippa East (Author)

I’d note that the Code currently with the minister does not cover workplaces. It’s the code for public services and associations, not employment. However, the tribunal rulings show that the EHRC’s interim update was likely legally incorrect, so still v significant in that the EHRC got it wrong

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Do keep an eye on that webpage, where they will post more details of what they are looking for soon

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Yes, I work for them as a volunteer. I’m really enjoying it.

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I assume it’s a follow-up to this one, when they stated that they hadn’t yet had time to read the full judgement and so would be making a further public comment later in the week

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Really shocking that she says teachers should “avoid language or activities that encourage children to question their gender.”

WHAT’S WRONG WITH questioning your gender! How are supposed to work out if they are transgender?

Presumably, children should never question their sexuality either??

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Interesting. Maybe they’ve got around to reading it properly!

Sounds exactly like my cat 🤣

It considered that a number of factors required to be weighed in the balance including the options that were available to the employer, the extent to which the trans person had changed physiological attributes of sex, how the trans person appeared to others, the extent to which there were complaints from other staff, what the employer knew or ought to have known, and what the options for use of facilities were. It held that initially it had been lawful for the first respondent to grant permission as there had not been an indication of complaint about it, but that once a complaint was made by Mrs Peggie alternatives should have been addressed and the permission should have been revoked on an interim basis. The permission became lawful when a solution was later found, which meant that the claimant and second respondent were not at work together and not therefore using the changing room at the same time, and as no other staff made any complaint about the use of the changing room by the second respondent.

Basically, the Court ruled that whether a trans person can lawfully use a gender-aligned workplace facility is not black and white. This has pretty much always been the case, so it’s not necessarily discrimination to (temporarily) suspend access.

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Yes, Maya really did not come out of this well

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This is super!
Could you DM me a copy? 🙏🙏🙏
I can try and add in reference to the court’s press summary and maybe also Ofcom standards of conduct

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The basic focus would be that the court released an extremely clear press statement, which outlets like the BBC have just completely ignored.
Also their insistence on referring to Dr Upton as a biological male

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The court literally released a very very clear press statement that pretty much all the media seem to have just ignored. That’s deliberate misrepresentation and obfuscation. The press statement is extremely clear and easy to read.

www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

… if somebody could cobble that information together for me, I could probably have a go at knocking some sort of complaint letter up

For heaven sake. I think we ALL need to report all these media outlets Ofcom.
Just haven’t got the spoons right now, but if anyone could put a template letter together that would be amazing!
Alternatively, I don’t have the details of which outlets said what to hand, but…

I mean, who does?

Wow!

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I limited interactions on this one. Hoping it stays with the mooties 😎

Yes, it will depend on the way that gender critical beliefs are expressed, but it upholds the point that was made in the original Forstater case that, while gender critical beliefs are protected as a “philosophical belief“ under the EA2010, expressions of that belief can still amount to harassment

I only read the press summary, which was much easier to read and understand!

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It wasn’t ruled as harassment by Dr Upton, so it doesn’t mean that a trans person simply existing in a space is harassment. They ruled that the NHS board had harassed Peggie by not temporarily suspending the inclusive policy while the complaint was dealt with, that’s all.

From the press summary: www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

Oh, she’s represented / advised sex matters in a number of legal cases