Our FOI reveals a year of correspondence showing how ministers and senior officials at the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) met repeatedly with the anti-rights group Sex Matters while shaping the government’s new digital identities framework, the system…
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is consulting on new guidance that would reshape access to single-sex services in the UK, but campaigners and researchers warn it’s not just a clarification of the law. It’s an assault on basic…
In today’s Britain, a dangerous legal trend is taking root — one that risks unravelling decades of hard-won progress on equality. The courts and workplace tribunals are increasingly handing victories to those who openly promote bigoted views, under the protection…
Language matters. Words shape how we understand each other, how we interact with our communities, and how we either uphold or dismantle systems of oppression. In recent years, terms like “biological sex”, “biological male”, “biological female”, “biologically male”, “biologically female”,…
In recent months, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has been issuing guidance and statements on sex and gender that have made headlines and caused concern across the equality and human rights sector. But amid the political noise, one…
Guest Article by Rach, founder of Lesbians Against Fascism and Transphobia (LAFT)LAFT can currently be found on Instagram. I was born in the early 80’s so my most formative years were lived under Thatcher. I was also born into a…
Let’s not beat around the bush. The ‘Equality and Human Rights’ Commission’s new draft Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations isn’t just a dull legal document—it’s a roadmap for quietly rolling back trans rights, one “legitimate aim”…
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is about to launch a consultation on changes to its statutory Code of Practice for services, public functions, and associations. While consultations are supposed to be democratic exercises, the context behind this one…
(Yes, Even After the Supreme Court Ruling) Let’s clear something up before another MP starts frothing at the mouth on GB News: in the UK, there is still no law that stops transgender people from using the toilets that match…
In a ruling that strikes at the heart of trans rights across the UK, the court has sided with anti-trans pressure group For Women Scotland, declaring that the words “sex”, “woman” and “man” in equality law must be based on…