from The Christian Institute
The National Student of Students (NUS) has called for students to subvert official statutory guidance protecting single-sex spaces, claiming it is “trans-exclusionary”.
NUS Vice President for Liberation and Equality Avery Greatorex, a man who identifies as a woman, dismissed the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) Code of Practice as legally biased and “ideologically motivated”.
The Code of Practice, which applies to services, public functions and associations, has recently been updated to ensure compliance with the Supreme Court’s ruling that ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex.
A fact of life
Greatorex encouraged students “to resist trans-exclusionary policies in the public spaces and services they frequent” in an effort to “keep our spaces trans-inclusive”.
Students were urged to put posters on women’s toilet doors stating that ‘men are welcome’, to push single-sex societies to change their membership requirements, and to lobby universities to allow trans-activists to co-design new policies.
Trade unions including Unite, the British Medical Association and Equity have also criticised the Code. Unison, with around 1.3 million members, recently vowed to take the fight “to every workplace to make them trans inclusive”.