🚨❄️DECEMBER UPDATE: A lot has happened recently on the EHRC’s proposed bathroom ban but they're still trying to exclude trans people from public life. The EHRC aren’t changing course, and we have to keep the pressure up.

Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities, has a decision to make. The EHRC, a regulator mired in controversy over anti-trans views, has sent a new draft Code of Practice to our Equality Act which would lead to the exclusion of trans people from public life.

Their draft tried to turn our equality laws into a bathroom ban, mandating the blanket exclusion of trans people from gendered spaces and services. Even if a business or association wants to remain trans-inclusive, they’d be told they must exclude us.

The EHRC rushed through more than 50,000 responses to its consultation on this draft using AI, and have now sent their final proposals to the government. Media leaks revealed that the EHRC want organisations to police bathrooms based on people's looks and gender stereotypes.

Will this Government pass a misogynist's charter into law?

This is unworkable, dangerous, and we cannot let it happen. Your voices are making a difference; MPs are expressing their deep concern about what is being proposed. It’s decision time now, and the government needs to hear loud and clear from your political representatives: they must reject this and tell the EHRC that exclusion can’t be the only option.

Act now. Ask your MP to urge the government to scrap the bathroom ban and demand any new Code of Practice ensures providers can lawfully include trans people in their services.

Pressure is building. Every voice matters here.

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