Gender Reassignment Protected Characteristic

• UK: Keep calm and respect diversity, says UN expert

  11 May, 2023 · 5 min read · ECHR: Equality Act Review un gender recognition act gender reassignment protected characteristic  ·

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  The UN Independent Expert on SOGI, Victor Madrigal-Borloz, has issued a statement following his visit to the UK and Ireland in May 2023.

  Abusive rhetoric by politicians, the media and social commentators has trickled down to produce increasingly abusive and hateful speech against LGBT persons in the United Kingdom (UK), the UN independent expert on sexual orientation and gender identity warned today.

  The expert expressed grave concern about delays in long-promised legislation to ban practices of “conversion” of sexual orientation and gender identity. “The vicissitudes of this and other necessary public policies appear to be connected to political discourse concerning gender-diverse persons and refugees and asylum seekers, two areas in which recent State actions are cause for concern,” Madrigal-Borloz said.

  
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  • https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/05/uk-keep-calm-and-respect-diversity-says-un-expert
  • https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/issues/sexualorientation/statements/eom-statement-UK-IE-SOGI-2023-05-10.pdf

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  Added: 11 May, 2023

• Authentic Equity Alliance C.I.C., R (On the Application Of) v Commission for Equality And Human Rights [2021] EWHC 1623 (Admin) (06 May 2021)

  6 May, 2021 · 1 min read · ehrc gender recognition act gender reassignment protected characteristic  ·

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  The notion of a single-sex space is not a sufficient justification to ban trans individuals from those spaces.

  An exemption does exist in the GRA and the GR protected characteristic which allows for legal discrimination against trans individuals in limited circumstances.

  Case number: CO/4116/2020

  Cite as: [2021] EWHC 1623 (Admin)

  (5) The claimant has put forward a number of iterations of the alleged misstatement of the law, none of which is, in my judgment, arguable.

  (9) The claimant's first proposition is, accordingly, unarguable.

  (12) [...] The claimant's point in its Reply accordingly shows no arguable error of law.

  (14) That is in my view an untenable view of the legislation. [...]

  (28) For all these reasons I do not consider the claimant's case to be arguable and refuse permission to proceed on that ground.

  
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  • http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2021/1623.html

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  Added: 10 Apr, 2023