Write for us!Human Rights Act
Clarity: Not Erasure
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What has actually happened The Supreme Court did not remove rights from trans people. It clarified which legal characteristic protects which interest. The Equality Act 2010 contains nine protected characteristics. Two of them are relevant here: sex and gender reassignment. For years, ambiguity existed about how these interacted – particularly whether a trans woman (i.e. a man) with a Gender Recognition Certificate should be treated as a woman for every purpose under the Act, including access to single-sex services. The Supreme Court, unanimously, said no: for the purposes of the Act, “sex” means biological sex. A GRC does not alter that…
“Does Magna Carta Mean Nothing to You? Did She Die in Vain?”
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In the current political climate and with the increase in the intolerance of others, human rights have acquired a curious reputation. To listen to certain rightward leaning voices on the airwaves, one might conclude that they are a recent foreign invention – a bureaucratic imposition dreamed up by progressive ‘lefty’ lawyers in Strasbourg to frustrate the will of the British people. Nothing could be further from the truth. The idea that every human being possesses inherent dignity that no state may trample upon is not a creation of the twentieth century. It is, in fact, one of the oldest political…
