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[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

[jessica pseudonym @mealdealtruther]

It is farcical to claim that they intended for the Equality Act to render the Gender Recognition Act useless, and that the country has spent the past 15 years applying them both incorrectly.

This whole thing is bullshit from the court case through to the EHRC guidance.

[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

[LGBwiththeT @LGBwiththeT]

🚨 BREAKING

It has been confirmed by the folks over at Translucent, that a study in to complaints regarding transgender women using single-sex public facilities operated by all the unitary authorities in England amounts to:

0.0000059% of the population.

1 complaint.

[WillowTheFoxΘΔ🏳️‍⚧️🐾Pawbz are cute!🐾 @Willowfoxxo]

Exactly this tho!

[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]

[Jon Dryden Taylor @jondrytay]

We’re at the ‘women aren’t safe alone in locked cubicles with floor to ceiling doors’ stage of the campaign to drive trans people out of public existence, I see.

[Marianne Oakes @OakesMarianne]

Sorry if I’m being ignorant, where are the figures that demonstrate trans women pose a threat to anyone in single sex spaces? There must be overwhelming research evidence and figures given the air time this is being given.

[India Willoughby @IndiaWilloughby]

This was me getting invited to Number 10 Downing Street in 2017 to meet Prime Minister Theresa May, who was about to bring in Self ID and quicker Gender Recognition Certificates. She made a speech about how awful the Conservatives had been to trans people in the past - but those days were over! Later I bumped into her in the Downing Street loo. We were both doing our lippy. Lol 😂. I said “Thank you so much for the invite and what you’re doing” . And she said: “Well times have changed now. Progress stops for no-one. Love your shoes by the way!”

[♡bea♡ @beatami_]

i need cispeople to start wearing trans pride pins and im not kidding

[Erin Ekins (she/her) @QueerlyAutistic]

It's really important that we don't use soft language to make things more 'palatable' or less 'alarmist'.

What the UK government is currently committed to is a programme of social murder against both trans people and disabled people. And we need to name it for what it is.

[Jack @JackJackOJackO]

The contempt Labour has for LGBTQ+ people is staggering

[Garth @ThatGarthGuy]

Weird that within a decade we went from issuing travel warnings about US states with bathroom bans

To implementing our own here

Things have really gone backwards when it comes to Trans rights

[el 🌌 @crystalbepis_]

article from 2016 btw. really wish someone would set trans rights back 10 years already

[night gardener @uncanny_eli]

the entire basis of the EHRC code is that specific kinds of cis discomfort - even imagined discomfort, fantasised-about potential discomfort - outrank the rights of trans people to public life within the eyes of the law

[fey little witch hunter 🇵🇸🕊️ @goodbyeleninxcx]

New ECHR rules say that it is discrimination to accuse someone who "manifests the belief that same sex sexual activity is sinful" of being homophobic

Thanks LGB Alliance! Great work guys!

[the sagitterrorist transfeminist 🫖🔮🌌✨🔬📚🔪💋💗 @therapatical]

if you are trans, you must stay alive. please.

[Jack Turban MD 🧠 @jack_turban]

https://t.co/wOW321mNIb

[Miffy @miffythegamer]

In the 80s, laws were enacted which directly persecuted gay people like me. In this decade, the same thing is happening to trans folks.

To trans people I say: the LGBT+ community overturned those laws & reclaimed those rights. And we’ll do the same again for your rights too.

[Bad Writing Takes 🖊️🏳️‍🌈 @BadWritingTakes]

Once again, standing up to the "Gender Critical" mob is not only important because defending trans people in particular is a moral good but because these people are invariably dangerous bigots and extremists in a bunch of other ways and will never stop at "just" trans people.