Equality?

[Shana A]

Sunday, 1 August 2010
Equality?
Zoe Brain

http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2010/08/equality.html

From the UK Equality Act 2010 :

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    (a) in the case of gender reassignment, as references to a requirement not to be a transsexual person (and section 7(3) is accordingly to be ignored);

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.