The Equality and Human Rights Commission has published interim guidance following last week’s Supreme Court decision. It instructs organisations that manage public spaces and workplaces to create segregated mixed-sex bathrooms, washing and changing facilities for Trans+ people to use.
It does this on the basis that same-sex spaces can only be used by people that align with the Supreme Court’s definition of ‘biological sex’, while also saying that Trans+ perceived to be of the wrong gender can’t use bathrooms that match their biological sex.
If taken beyond interim guidance and made statutory, it would be the biggest human rights disaster since racial segregation and apartheid.
The guidance covers workplaces, schools, and services open to the public, such as hospitals, shops and restaurants.
It stipulates that, where possible, mixed-sex toilets, washing and changing facilities should now be provided. In an interim period, it sets out where this is not possible, trans people should not be put in a position where there are no facilities for them to use.
Genocide doesn’t have to be killings or sterilisation. It can be any action with the intention of destroying a group, in whole or in part.
It also doesn’t only apply to ethnic groups.
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.
Unless this whole thing can be classified as a religious group? Some people act in that way about it
So you acknowledge you were wrong then? It’s not strictly about killing or sterilisation, not is it strictly down to ethnic groups.
Thank you for proving me right 👍
No, we’re both wrong here at best. It doesn’t include sexual orientation or gender identity