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Title: Equality?
Post by: Shana A on August 01, 2010, 09:08:52 AM
Post by: Shana A on August 01, 2010, 09:08:52 AM
Sunday, 1 August 2010
Equality?
Zoe Brain
http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2010/08/equality.html (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.
Equality?
Zoe Brain
http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2010/08/equality.html (http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2010/08/equality.html)
From the UK Equality Act 2010 :
snip
(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.