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Tim | @UKLabour @CoopParty Member | CLP Vice-Chair Campaigns | Numismatist | Also Fall Out Boy and Red Pandas are awesome 😎

[Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @BellRibeiroAddy]

The latest EHRC guidance will only further harm and marginalise trans people.

Trans people deserve to live with the dignity, freedom and safety to fully participate in public life.

I signed EDM 240 this week, calling for this guidance to be rejected 👇🏾
https://t.co/uYDjMdVH5Y

[Disability Rights UK @DisRightsUK]

🚨DR UK's Statement on the EHRC's New Code of Practice

"We are appalled at implications that an adequate workaround is trans people using Disabled toilets instead. We will not be used as a loophole in the wider erosion of trans rights."

Full statement👇
https://t.co/2eZAsJXdzV

[Rupa Huq MP @RupaHuq]

The @EHRC guidance hinges on subjective term "discomfort of service users" to ban trans people from universal services.

I asked Equalities Minister to ensure trans inclusive public spaces can continue, otherwise the draft code is unreasonable, unfair and unworkable

#PrideMonth

[Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @LeftieStats]

🚨BREAKING | Labour MP Nadia Whittome has tabled a motion to REJECT the EHRC bathroom ban "guidance".

If MPs back her motion, the EHRC guidance will be rejected and will not be implemented. Motion is co-signed by Green MPs Hannah Spencer and Sian Berry.

[Nadia Whittome MP @NadiaWhittomeMP]

Alongside colleagues, I have tabled a motion to disapprove the Equality Act 2010: Draft Code of Practice for Services, public functions and associations. We cannot support it, and we have a responsibility to our trans constituents to resist it.

This motion is currently the only available mechanism through which Parliament can reject the EHRC’s Code of Practice; if it is debated and passed within the 40-day scrutiny window, it would prevent the Code from being issued by the EHRC and coming into force.

Please email your MP asking them to sign EDM 240. 

The Code will exclude trans people from services and facilities that they have long used without issue, putting them at increased risk of harassment and violence, and effectively pushing them out of public life. 

It ushers in an era of enforced segregation for trans people, the policing of which will be outsourced to service providers, including businesses, charities and public bodies. 

In the statement to the House of Commons yesterday, the Minister even suggested that where members of the public are unsure of someone’s gender within a single-sex facility, “most people will have the common sense to step in where necessary or, if they are concerned, to alert a member of staff.”

Meanwhile, this guidance does not give clarity and confidence to organisations that want to be trans-inclusive. Its impact also extends beyond the rights of trans people. The government’s own Equality Impact Assessment warns that “women who are considered masculine may face greater scrutiny” and that disabled people could face adverse impacts.

The Code represents a profound rollback of rights, which will affect trans people directly and erode the principles of inclusion, dignity and equality upon which all our rights depend.

This guidance must not become statutory; the government should withdraw it and instead legislate to clarify and protect trans people’s rights, privacy and inclusion.

https://t.co/odTmOAIejk

[Nadia Whittome MP @NadiaWhittomeMP]

The government’s own impact assessment warns that the EHRC’s Code of Practice exposes trans women to a “disproportionate risk of violence and sexual assault” and that women who do not conform to gender stereotypes may face “greater scrutiny”.

It also doesn’t offer clarity to organisations that want to be trans-inclusive. For example, if a charity wants to hold a trans-inclusive women’s coffee morning as a service open to the public, without opening it to all.

My plea to the government: withdraw the guidance and instead legislate to protect trans people’s rights, privacy and inclusion. 

For reference, the Minister’s response is in relation to membership organisations with rules for membership, but as the guidance stands, this would not apply to a charity service open to the public.

[UK Prime Minister @10DowningStreet]

NEW: Landlords and courts will get new powers to evict domestic abuse perpetrators from social homes, without the victim having to leave first.

Under legislation introduced by this government, perpetrators will no longer be able to use social housing as a weapon of control.

That's alongside building more homes and reforming the Right to Buy scheme, all part of our reforms to deliver stability for families in social housing.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

I promised we would fix our broken railways.

Today Southern, Thameslink, Great Northern and Gatwick Express return to public ownership. Run for the public good, not private profit.

This Labour government is putting passengers first.

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

Trans people deserve the same standard of care as everyone else.

Join over 11,000 and say: It’s time to root transphobia out of the NHS 👇
https://t.co/lBWpk0w5ff

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

Reform’s candidate says he’s in the dark about Reform’s plans to tear up workers’ rights.

He should ask Nigel Farage why he wants to strip workers of day one rights to sick pay and to allow bosses to use exploitative practices like zero-hours contracts and fire and rehire.

Could it have anything to do with the corporate donors bankrolling the party?

[Billymawa @Billymawa]

I live in Ince. This utter weapon is spewing nothing but hate and lies. It’s NOT a mosque, it’s a community centre that includes a small prayer room, amongst other things (such as a foodbank). Take your disgusting racism @RobKenyonReform and fuck off out of my constituency.

[UNISON - UK's largest union @unisontheunion]

🚨 Opposing the EHRC guidance – we need your voice

MPs will decide on the guidance in the next 30 days — and we need to show them the reality

We need you to tell us why it's unworkable and the real life impact it will have on you in the workplace

📩 Email us: [email protected]

[Sarah @kokeshimum]

The absolute audacity of these cunts.

They introduced the legislation ffs.

Them. The Conservative party. Tje Tories.

In 2021.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Tony Blair might not like my plan, but he's wrong: it's changing Britain for the better.

https://t.co/jbDwObZZFr

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

If you get a payout from Trump’s January 6 slush fund, California will tax it at 100%.

People who assault cops and overthrow democracy don’t deserve a taxpayer-funded payday.

[Chip Thief @ShatteredSFW]

For anyone interested in the truth:

PD1 is for people with 'restricted documents', trans people with GRCs have restricted documents, to prevent random arsehole transphobes at HMRC from outing random trans people who call them.

So if you have a GRC, you call PD1, and always have

[Clara | 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @OswinOswald223]

The way this is being reported by this account is very much intended to incite hatred towards trans people..

The reason for it is because Trans people with their legal GRC have their files and documents restricted and therefore only special workers at HMRC can edit them..

[Simon John @hehimta]

I, as a man, can now enter a woman’s toilets and claim I’m a trans man to any woman who complains, and legally, the venue/staff aren’t allowed to intervene to challenge my gender.

Kind of a major flaw in this new EHRC guidance.

[Nadia Whittome MP @NadiaWhittomeMP]

While it appears that the government has successfully pushed back on some particularly harmful elements in the previous draft, the new Code of Practice will still lead to the exclusion of trans people from services and facilities that they have used without issue for a very long time.

This will do nothing to improve women’s lives and the many struggles we face, but it will put trans people (and anyone perceived as trans) at increased risk of discrimination, harassment and violence. The Code unfortunately still represents the culmination of years of anti-trans campaigning from a small, well-funded minority who have had outsized influence in the media and in politics, and have weaponised the courts for their own ends.

The legal situation for trans people is now deeply incoherent and means that it is untenable for them to be able live their lives with dignity. This is completely out of line with the values of equality that a Labour government is meant to champion. Instead of making this Code statutory, the government should be legislating to clarify and protect trans people’s rights, privacy and inclusion.