University and College Union aka UCU issues a statement:

The Government’s plan to review the Equality Act 2010, with a mind to change existing provisions in relation to sex and gender, is an attack on the limited rights and protections to which trans people are currently entitled.

Changing the understanding of ‘sex’ to refer solely to ‘biological sex’ would effectively eradicate the ability of trans people to gain full legal recognition for their gender identity. This flies in the face of established UCU policy in favour of self-identification, and would enable acts of discrimination against trans and non-binary people to go unchallenged.

So UCU has a policy in favour of self-identification. Is that an inclusive policy? Does it include all possible self-identifications? Should people be able to force everyone to endorse their self-identification no matter what they identify as?

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)  is there to protect and uphold the rights of all groups who face discrimination. This must include trans and non-binary people…

But it must also include women, and some of the purported “rights” that trans ideologues demand have the unfortunate side effect of obliterating women’s rights. Why should the demands of trans people outweigh the rights of women? Please explain.

This must include trans and non-binary people, but at the moment the EHRC is failing in this part of its remit. It’s advice to the government on this issue has highlighted a number of ways in which trans people would be excluded as a result of the changes being considered. 

Excluded how, from what? You mean women’s sports and prizes and records and firsts? But all those things are meant for women, not men who call themselves women. If women are forced to share them with men, that excludes women.

Time and again, the Tory Government has shown itself to be against trans and non-binary inclusion – from blocking the path of Gender Recognition Act (GRA) reform in Scotland to their manufactured culture war against the trans community, one the of the UK’s smallest and most vulnerable groups.

Mindless cliches repeated for the billionth time instead of anything thoughtful or reasonable. No thought about what inclusion means, no analysis of what a “community” is in this context, of how we define “groups,” of why trans people are “most vulnerable” while apparently women are not. Childish activisty slogans in the place where thought should be. Where are the adults??

No legislation is perfect, but seeking to change an established law in a way that would actively remove rights from a marginalised group is deeply troubling.

What about all the women who have had their rights removed? Why does the UCU not even mention them?

We are also clear that our own union is an inclusive one which recognises that trans men are men, trans women are women and non-binary people’s identities are valid. 

It doesn’t “recognise” that nonsense, it capitulates to it while trying to make the rest of us do the same.

Where where where are the adults?