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Equality Act 2010

November 2025

  • Protesters carry banner with the words: 'We know what a woman is'

    Impasse over EHRC single-sex spaces guidance ‘distracting from other issues’

  • Kishwer Falkner, head of the EHRC.

    Equality commission’s guidance after sex ruling is fundamentally unworkable

October 2025

  • Protesters march against Trump administration’s efforts to eliminate DEI programmes

    More than half of UK businesses changing DEI approach due to Trump’s criticism

  • Kishwer Falkner, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission

    EHRC guidance will help businesses comply with the law on sex and gender

  • Tom Boyd restocking body wash at Waitrose

    Asda hires autistic man who was let go by Waitrose after years of volunteering

  • Male and female illustrations on a toilet sign

    Trans people at risk of exclusion from many UK public spaces, rights expert says

August 2025

  • A close-up of a facial recognition system deployed by the Metropolitan police at Oxford Circus with union jacks hanging across the street

    Met police’s facial recognition plans fall foul of European law, says watchdog

    Use of cameras at Notting Hill carnival could have ‘chilling effect’ on people’s rights, says equality regulator

July 2025

  • Sandie Peggie

    Nurse cleared of misconduct in trans doctor changing room row in Scotland

    NHS Fife says there is insufficient evidence against Sandie Peggie as her tribunal case against the trust resumes

June 2025

  • Transgender rights activist bearing sign saying Trans women are women on Parliament Square, London

    Transgender campaigners call for European rights body to report on UK

    Alliance of groups wants Council of Europe to investigate implementation of supreme court ruling on biological sex
  • Susan Smith outside supreme court

    For Women Scotland group mulls more legal action after UK supreme court gender ruling

    Campaigners say they have spoken to Scottish government about lack of action on prisons and schools guidance amid focus on toilets
  • Kishwer Falkner, chair of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, in a black dress with a necklace composed of large gold squares, addresses the House of Lords

    UK equalities watchdog: transgender people may be asked about gender status in workplace

    Trans people who feel they’ve lost rights should ‘distinguish between rights in law and preference for things to be a certain way’, EHCR chair said

May 2025

  • Kishwer Falkner speaking on a panel in 2016

    MPs fear UK equality watchdog may take months to sign off gender guidance

    Exclusive: EHRC insiders believe process could drag on until after its chair is replaced in November
  • Composite illustration of protests including for pay equality, anti-apartheid, LGBTQ+ Pride, and Black Lives Matters

    The race report
    Corporate diversity policies are under fire from the right – but also from the left

    Leftwingers say the shallow initiatives that now define DEI have diluted more radical attempts to achieve equality

    • Maga’s ‘DEI hire’ taunt is an age-old grievance reignited. And it’s spreading

      Gaby Hinsliff

    • UK equality watchdog to extend gender guidance consultation, say insiders

    • ‘Trans women have never felt like a threat’: women’s refuges grapple with supreme court ruling

April 2025

  • Ben Summerskill in 2007, when he was chief Executive of Stonewall.

    Stonewall’s policy of ‘no debate’ on trans rights was a mistake

  • Male, female and disabled toilet signs

    Trans people banned from toilets of gender they identify with, says UK minister

  • People walk out of the building that now houses the United Kingdom's Supreme Court in Westminster, central London.

    The Guardian view on the UK supreme court’s equality ruling: a clear legal line, a blurred social one

  • Keir Starmer speaking during PMQs

    Keir Starmer urges MPs to ‘lower the temperature’ in debate on gender ruling

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