TransActual will be taking copies of their findings to meet with MPs
BY ELLA GAUCI, IMAGE BY GETTY IMAGES
TransActual have just published a new report detailing the devastating impact of the guidance set out by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) earlier this year.
Following the UK Supreme Court ruling in April, the EHRC released their interim guidance on how organisations should interpret the ruling. In this guidance, the EHRC stated that “trans women should not be permitted to use the women’s facilities.” Over 650 businesses and organisations have claimed that this guidance is “unworkable”.
This new report – The Gendered Spaces Review – is based on evidence collected from trans and non-trans people alike, discussing their experiences accessing gendered spaces. The report clearly shows how people who present outside of society’s perception of gender have been harassed and abused as a direct result of the EHRC guidance.
Tammy Hymas, policy lead for TransActual, said: “This is what happens when a so-called human rights body, packed full of political appointees representing the views of a tiny group of anti-trans ideologues, decides to turn up the volume on policies designed to restrict the right of all people to express themselves in whichever way they please.”
In reference to the EHRC interim guidance, Tammy describes it as being “little more than a glorified press release”.
“There was no consultation with stakeholders – or even their own staff. It included legal inaccuracies and has since been withdrawn. And while it was big on how to exclude, it had nothing to say on how to include trans people in public life.”
“Our report demonstrates beyond doubt the havoc that the guidance continues to wreak on the lives of trans and gender non-conforming people in the UK.
Today (30 October), TransActual will hand over copies of the report at a meeting with MPs to explain the harm that the EHRC Draft Code of Practice has and is causing.
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