The WI and Girlguiding have been pressured to exclude trans women – yet the law is clear as mud | Jess O’Thomson

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : (In one Mumsnet thread, a user claimed that she was getting her husband to sue the Women’s Institute for sex discrimination against him, in order to force them to exclude trans women.)
59% : Trans people are protected by discrimination law, too, and as organisations start to realise that they were mis-sold on the implications of the supreme court judgment, many will see that they have been led astray.
50% : Meanwhile, the government is still considering the EHRC’s guidance, which must be approved by Phillipson before it is put to parliament.The Equality Act potentially permits organisations to operate on a trans-exclusionary basis, providing this can be justified, but it does not require it.
49% : The court ruled that “sex” in the Equality Act means “biological sex” (what is, usually, recorded at birth) in contrast to “certificated sex”– which would have meant, for example, that trans women with a gender recognition certificate were considered female under the act.
45% : Both organisations blamed the change on April’s supreme court ruling on the meaning of the word “sex” in the Equality Act 2010, but that’s far from the whole story.

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