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In 2008 the Sex Discrimination (Amendment of Legislation) Regulations extended existing regulation to outlaw discrimination when providing goods or services to transsexual people. The Equality Act 2010 added "gender reassignment" as a "protected characteristic". [198]
Addressing the overlapping racial and gender discrimination facing transgender individuals of color has raised a lot of debate both among scholars and the public. One advocated approach is to work within the existing binary sex classification system and grant legal rights to transgender individuals based on their self-defined gender identity ...
Gender reassignment and its consequences 2006 R. and F. v. United Kingdom: Gender reassignment and its consequences 2007 Bączkowski and Others v. Poland (no. 1543/06) Ban of a gay pride parade in Warsaw 11 (freedom of assembly and association), 13 and 14 2007 L. v. Lithuania: Gender reassignment and its consequences 8 2008, January
In 2010 the State Department amended its policy to allow permanent gender marker changes on passports where a physician states that "the applicant has had appropriate clinical treatment for gender transition to the new gender". [38] The previous policy required a statement from a surgeon that gender reassignment surgery was completed. [39]
The attorney, Alfred Rava, claimed in the lawsuit that he was the victim of sex discrimination by the A’s because he did not receive a free plaid reversible bucket hat during a promotion at an A ...
Rights to restrooms that match one's gender identity have also been recognized in the workplace and are actively being asserted in public accommodations. In Iowa, for example, discrimination in public accommodations on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity has been prohibited by law since 2007 through the Iowa Civil Rights Act. [315]
One study found that 71% of transgender respondents made efforts to hide their gender or gender transition to avoid discrimination, while 57% reported delaying their gender transition to avoid discrimination. [161] Transgender individuals also face discrimination within the LGBT+ community, especially from cisgender gay men and lesbians. [166]
In view of its purpose and the nature of the rights which it seeks to safeguard, the scope of the directive is also such as to apply to discrimination arising, as in this case, from the gender reassignment of the person concerned. 21. Such discrimination is based, essentially if not exclusively, on the sex of the person concerned.