"Earlier this month, the EHRC, the UK's top human rights regulator, announced it had sent a finished version of the code for services, public functions and associations to equalities minister - and now favourite to become Labour's deputy leader - Bridget Phillipson."
"The final version has not been made public yet, but proposed changes included clauses that would force trans people to take ID with them into "single-sex" facilities, such as changing rooms and toilets, prompting trans advocacy groups to condemn the recommendations as " harmful "."
""This is something of huge concern to trans people in my constituency of Bristol Central, and to trans people up and down the country, who fear not being able to go about their daily lives in privacy and dignity," Denyer wrote."
""The purpose of this letter is to ask if you could add some detail to last week's promise and let me know via what mechanism we will get a debate on the floor of the house.""
The EHRC began consulting on updates to its Code of Practice in April after a Supreme Court ruling defined "woman" in the 2010 Equality Act as referring to biological women. The EHRC has sent a finished version of the code to equalities minister Bridget Phillipson, but the final version has not been published. Proposed changes reportedly include clauses that would require trans people to carry ID to enter single-sex facilities, prompting condemnation from trans advocacy groups. Carla Denyer has written to the equalities minister requesting a parliamentary debate and clarification of the mechanism for that debate, citing widespread fear of exclusion and loss of privacy and dignity among trans people.
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