Employment lawyer Hannah Ford says the Supreme Court’s decision that sex in the Equality Act means biological sex could roll back inclusive policies. She warned employers may now legally exclude trans women from female-only spaces, calling the shift "regressive" and a threat to existing workplace equality practices. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00It's regressive for the trans community in the sense that many UK employers have drafted policies
00:05with a wide definition of sex, so a gender recognition certificate for a trans woman
00:11is the ticket to enter single sex spaces, and many employers have been inclusive in their
00:20approach there, and have seen that as the determiner, even though they have no right
00:24to see a gender recognition certificate, they have used it as the determiner, and now this
00:31case puts that position back, so essentially an employer has the right to say, well, biologically
00:37at birth, you were born male, so we're not prepared to recognise you as a female in this
00:42workplace, and that's problematic.