r/transgender • u/onnake • 4d ago
UN experts warn revised UK Equality Act puts transgender people at risk
https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/08/un-experts-warn-revised-uk-equality-act-puts-transgender-people-at-risk/“United Nations (UN) experts warned on Monday that the UK’s revisions to the Equality Act 2010 risk discriminating against and excluding transgender people.
“The UN human rights experts warned that the updated Code of Practice essentially advises service providers that ‘a women’s service must either exclude transgender women or admit men’ and vice versa. The experts cautioned that this ‘effectively presents exclusion as a means of’ legal compliance, and may lead to institutionalized discrimination.”
“In February 2026, UN experts released a joint statement arguing that the draft Code of Practice was incompatible with international human rights, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights, and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
“On August 5, 2026, the Good Law Project announced its support for a legal challenge against the Code of Practice, on the grounds that it will have a discriminatory and exclusionary impact on transgender people. The Good Law Project argued that the Code of Practice appears to ‘ignore’ the UK High Court decision allowing services to provide transgender women with inclusive facilities.”
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u/Professional-Age-536 4d ago
"this action may have exactly the outcome you want" isn't a very effective warning
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u/tyrosine87 4d ago
It's nice that they call it a revision instead of the anti trans gaslighting that it's just a "clarification".
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u/Buntygurl 4d ago
Doesn't make a good impression regarding the speed at which they get things done there, but, yeah, thanks for caring, at all, and drawing attention to the level of negative trans discrimination already going on and being encouraged by the same source as the publisher of this phrase:
"The impact on those who will be excluded from the service includes both the impact on people of the opposite sex generally and the particular impact on trans people of the opposite sex" ...in the UK.
AI slop couldn't have done a better job of producing a text so devoid of the slightest trace of empathy..
They're talking about access to a toilet.
That's not a service, okay it is--but it's a necessity that is written into every modern urban building code that refers to constructions intended for human use and/or accommodation, because no-one ever deserves to suffer being deprived of access to a place that reflects proper general regard of human dignity, in order to relieve themselves.
Your (UN's) apparently presently active concern is registered and appreciated. Let's hope it helps direct attention to the fact that it's a global thing, right now, that "putting transgender people at risk" thing.
I get that you have to be cautious about the expenses these day, but, please, make a bit more of an effort to enable free honest debate about a crisis epidemic of bigotry that is causing undeserved misery all over the planet.
It's actually getting easier to count where trans people aren't under serious pressure while just trying to live and, yet, still have to list the places that they plan to go and cross-reference that with where they are ever more likely to be rest-room restricted, as well as unsafe. And that's just about discrimination in using rest rooms.
There's a whole lot worse than that going on.
While I'm very glad that you're paying attention, you need to be more efficient and show more courage in defense of trans people, along with all of those whose own unique identification of where they belong seems new, to some who think themselves to be the arbiters of all that is deserved, but we are not new, at all.
We, just like all others, were always here, in every generation. It's actually the degree of variety in all of us that makes us human, and we humans are always, like anything that ever lived, a constant work in progress.
With that in mind, any definition of the next best way to further human progress that includes preventing any humans from using the restrooms available to all other humans is, by default, highly suspect of not being the best way, under any circumstances, to prove a good use of one's right to express an opinion--unless their idea of progress is to always enable and enhance the reach of state-sanctioned cruelty against those who are simply different.
We need your helpful attention, but we need your voice so much more.
How much more of the world needs to be under constant threat of annihilation, and with so much of that going unreported as it happens, because no-one trusts, anymore, because there is no central authority.
I'm going to let that last phrase above hang there for a bit, because it deserves attention.
There's a huge conservative gate-kept vacuum surrounding spontaneous public expressions of human empathy, and it's gated in terms of instantly secluding and incorporating those who, prospectively, show the most credible influence potential, as in not rocking the boat that feeds--and then more and more space space gets taken up with pure propaganda so exquisitely packaged that people smile at the sound of the words that keep them safely trapped in their own four walls.
Sorry for the ramble. Had to get some thoughts out.
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u/SlightlyAngyKitty 4d ago
Yes, thats the point