SO what does that mean? It means that there is one “protected” class where protection is explicitly removed, not granted. It means that a gender recognition certificate is not worth the paper it’s printed on. Rather than being a recognition that they are of the target gender, it’s a nullity, as the law states that they’re not, not really. This is made clear in the explanatory notes.:…
The provisions of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 that over-rode that 1975 act have now been repealed. There is a distinction between “women” and “transsexual persons with (or without) gender recognition certificates” now.
A.E.Brain: Equality?
Now of course, who could reasonably object to a councellor [sic] whose appearance might be upsetting to a rape survivor? In such cases, we cannot afford to be too precious about rights of employment, we must consider the victims first and foremost.
But it’s not about appearance. It’s not about the victims and their feelings. It’s about transphobic prejudice. It’s now legitimate to refuse help to victims who are “transsexual persons” because of the transphobia of others. There are other consequences too.
As for those women transsexual persons with gender recognition certificates who have been raped… I guess they’re out of luck. The “Equality Act” is anything but.
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NEITHER the Gender Recognition Act 2004 – aka the Gerbil – nor the Equality Act 2010 have been good for intersex people.
The former mistreats us as what we are not, and the latter excludes us altogether.
Now Zoe Brain has read the Equality Act 2010 and shares with us that it overthrows one of the few real benefits the Gender Recognition Act 2004 bestowed on people of transsexual background.
The Gerbil was suspect from the start. The term “acquired gender” and the substitution of sex with gender – both implied that men and women of transsexual background will always remain the sex they are arbitrarily assigned at birth and are merely pretending to be the sex they have long known themselves to be by virtue of acting out as the gender that does not correspond with their assigned sex.
