Rejected petition Reform the Equality Act to protect Trans People’s Gender Identity.

Enshrine that sex for the purposes of the Equality Act (EA) includes sex as recorded on birth certificate following the issuing of a GRC and transgender people’s rights by enshrining their ability use single sex spaces according to their gender identity unless exclusion is proportionate.

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The Supreme Court ruled that the Equality Act’s protected characteristic of sex should be interpreted as referring to biological sex. This is contrary to all official guidance issued since 2010, but undermines the purpose of the GRA which brought into law the ECtHR ruling in Goodwin vs UK.

In addition, guidance has been that ordinarily trans people ‘self identify’ the spaces they use. Since 2009 NHS guidance has included trans people on the basis as does the 2003 PACE Codes.

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Amend Equality Act to define the terms woman and man not based on biological sex
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/725223

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Date submitted 22 April 2025
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