40 days. One email. Your name on the right side of history.
the new ehrc guidance re: the supreme court ruling on the equality act was released on may 21st after consultation. it is not good. you can read transactual's statement on it here. parliament has until june 30th to block this. for those of you in the uk, the link above is a tool you can use to email your mp quickly and ask them to do so. the website will talk you through the process but all you need to do is find your mp's address and personalise the sections in brackets, and this will do the rest.
if you are able, please email. it will take a couple minutes maximum.
Launch a review into strengthening legal protections and clearer enforcement against discrimination, harassment and exclusion of trans women
there is a petition that uk folks can sign also - currently at 2,000 signatures out of 10,000 needed for a government response
For anyone wondering: the Code of Practice is sufficiently ignorant of what "biological sex" is, that the majority of people (regardless of gender) run the risk of being blocked from using any gendered facility whatsoever. This will particularly hit trans people, non-white people, anyone with a disability, children, teenagers and anyone else people like bullying (because it is likely that most challenges will be from bullies rather than good-faith complainants of any description). The Code of Practice does not allow any consequences for vexatious complainants or bullies, only for the people they bully. It also bans unisex accommodations, which means that places like the NHS face potentially needing to double their accommodation to serve the same number of patients (because the NHS cannot in most cases guarantee anything about the sex or gender balance of visitors). Even British transphobes should sign this petition. (That any British person who respects trans people and can access the petition should also sign it, would have been obvious to them before reading my addition. Trans people should be respected).
the petition is currently at 12,723 out of the 100,000 it needs to be considered for debate in parliament!
