The Equality Act does not require case-by-case assessment to apply ordinary sex-based rules.

It does not give trans-identifying people the right to use single and separate sex services for the opposite sex.

Read Sex Matters' guidance

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The principles are simple.

There are different ways of providing services.

The Equality Act provides for all of them when they are a proportionate means to a legitimate aim.

The single-sex and separate-sex service exceptions in the Equality Act should be straightforward and easy to use.

The recent judgment by the Supreme Court in the case of For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers made clear that the Equality Act is based on biological sex.

Joanne Cash and Sue-Mei Thompson. No idea why they redacted them.

The EHRC met a human rights charity not a "hate group".

There were two members of staff there - one works in legal

Top tip: when you do an "exposé" read the documents. As you will see there was the Chair & CEO, two commissioners and two staff members which EHRC have redacted.

As the email shows Joanne Cash and Su-Mei Thompson bsky.app/profile/tran...

Calling accurate data on sex "anti-trans" is silly playground stuff.

Everyone has a sex, even trans & non-binary people.

The aim of the DVS is to enable ppl to prove facts about themselves.

And as the UKSC has confirmed sex is a protected characteristic in the Equality Act.

We had precooked two statements: one for a win and one for a loss. We didn’t dare hope the result would be better than 8 on our scale – roughly, an FWS win, but with comments designed to deflect criticism from those opposed to sex-based rights.

After Easter, Sex Matters will be writing letters and speaking to key individuals and organisations, and our supporters will be taking action

by local authorities, police forces and NHS trusts; by regulators, trades unions, charities, sports governing bodies, universities and schools; and by industry bodies and every employer.

But organisational inertia is powerful. Our next task is to make sure that this judgment is understood and implemented by the national and devolved governments and all their departments;

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Those were the angry cries of teenagers, it turned out, encouraged and amplified by adults who should have known better – and some who were willing to exploit their distress.

Every person who has spoken up for reality and faced ridiculous accusations of being a bigot, fascist or Nazi was vindicated by the Supreme Court ruling.

And now scrappy upstart organisations and grassroots groups of dissident women and men have brought most media outlets and many politicians – as well as the judges of the Supreme Court – to the point where they see the issue our way.

Step by step, we became braver and harder to ignore.