Submitted on Thursday 3rd November 2022
Rejected on Tuesday 8th November 2022
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Prevent the removal of Trans rights protections in 2010 Equality Act
Under the Equality Act currently, the law protects all trans people regardless of whether they have a gender recognition certificate affirming their gender and there is no requirement to have undergone medical transition. We would like Rishi Sunak to keep these protections in place for trans people.
The removal of these protections only makes the UK a more unsafe place for trans people and Sunak has no justification for removing these protections. If these protections are removed, trans people will not be able to access single-sex spaces such as shelters, bathrooms and hospital wards without obtaining a gender recognition certificate, which can be very difficult to do.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action. We understand that you are concerned about the possibility of legal rights for trans people being reduced, but the Government has not announced any plans to change the Equality Act, or remove legal protections for trans people.
It has been reported that the Government may look to amend the Equality Act to make it clear that sex means biological sex rather than gender, and we could accept a petition calling on the Government to commit not to making this change.
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