UCU: In defence of trans workers

Motion

Motion text: Congress notes:
1. The recent High Court challenge by Good Law Project (GLP) to EHRC’s interim update on gendered facilities.
2. The ruling’s indication that services can provide trans inclusive gendered facilities, in contrast to the update, but that workplaces may exclude trans people from these spaces.
3. Students and staff may therefore have unequal rights.
Congress believes that:
a. The update is unworkable and harmful.
b. The Gender Recognition Act (GRA) 2004 applied to Workplace Regulations (WRs) 1992 in response to findings of Goodwin v UK (2002).
c. Courts are diminishing the GRA, effectively leaving trans people with no practical or legal way of changing sex, contrary to Goodwin ruling.
Congress resolves to:
i. Write to SoSs for Education, Business & Trade, WEC and Joint Committee on HR demanding clarity.
ii. Lobby government to clarify that WRs were covered by GRA, and that exceptions to GRA must not be the norm.
iii. Share GLP’s fundraiser via UCU channels.