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UN experts warn revised UK Equality Act puts transgender people at risk (www.jurist.org)
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that the UK’s revisions to the Equality Act 2010 risk discriminating against and excluding transgender people.

The UN human rights experts warned that the updated Code of Practice essentially advises service providers that “a women’s service must either exclude transgender women or admit men” and vice versa. The experts cautioned that this “effectively presents exclusion as a means of” legal compliance, and may lead to institutionalized discrimination

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[–] 3 points 2 months ago

TERF Island aka the UK made a terrible call on this. Don't run interference for them.

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