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The Equality Act 2010 added "gender reassignment" as a "protected characteristic". [198] The Gender Recognition Act 2004 effectively granted full legal recognition for binary transgender people. [197] In contrast to some systems elsewhere in the world, the gender recognition process under the Act does not require applicants to be post-operative.
The act protects people against discrimination, harassment or victimisation in employment, and as users of private and public services based on nine protected characteristics: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
The EqIA process aims to prevent discrimination against people who are members of a protected category. [1] The Equality Act 2010 defines 9 protected characteristics: Race; Religion or Belief; Disability; Sex; Gender Reassignment; Sexual Orientation; Age; Marriage or Civil Partnership; Pregnancy and Maternity
Bans on gender-affirming care have been criticized as governments interfering with the patient-doctor relationship and taking away healthcare decisions from parents and families for their children. [373] [374] State level bans on gender-affirming care in the United States have led some families with transgender children to move out of their states.
The U.S. House of Representatives plans to vote on Tuesday on a bill supported by Republican President-elect Donald Trump to essentially ban transgender girls and women from competing in school ...
(The Center Square) – A Washington bill introduced this legislative session would add new protected classes to a state law regarding nondiscrimination against students in the public school ...
The Equality Act 2010 officially adds "gender reassignment" as a "protected characteristic", stating: "A person has the protected characteristic of gender reassignment if the person is proposing to undergo, is undergoing or has undergone a process (or part of a process) for the purpose of reassigning the person's sex by changing physiological ...
gender reassignment. being married or in a civil partnership. ... These are all so-called protected characteristics and they protect people at work, in education, as consumers, when using public ...