‘The law isn’t in our guidance’ say police.
It would help if routine sources of daily news did not almost universally misrepresent the law on women’s rights and speech discrimination.
You shouldn’t need to be a specialist, or even particularly interested, to know that the Supreme Court ruling is already applicable now, with no need to wait. The same with the Forstater ruling: no one should be explaining to an HR leader how to spell Forstater (which has happened) or what her case meant. Both should be clarified without fuss whenever there’s a story.
Last week’s claims by the Good Law Project were only the latest example of the practice of sowing media disinformation and confusion precisely so we end up here 👇 the law misrepresented and ignored across policy and guidance. It’s entirely so that women are forced into managing case by case.
It should be common knowledge that sex in law is biology, never mind EHRC guidance, and ‘misgendering’ isn’t illegal. If it were, activist policy writers, execs, trainers, diversity leaders, managers, officers, doctors, would simply look ridiculous and incompetent, instead of getting away with pretending not to know the law, which is what’s happening right now.
I had a shocking call with West Yorkshire Police yesterday. They claimed gender critical beliefs aren't protected under the Equality Act, despite the recent Forstater and Supreme Court rulings. I had to explain UK law to them. This is why so many women get failed by the system