This new inquiry into the Gender Recognition Act reform affects us all – and there are just days left to have your say
by Rebecca Lowe, Radical, from Conservative Home:
Our aim for this coming week is to finalise the Radical submission to the Women and Equalities Committee’s new inquiry into Gender Recognition Act reform. You may have read our last column, in which we called for the urgent replacement of this committee (the “WESC”), on the grounds that it has clearly been captured by a single-issue political campaign, and as such is incapable of properly holding the state to account on the important matters within its remit.
We proposed that it should be replaced by a Civil Rights and Freedoms Committee, which would focus on fundamental questions of equality before the law — tackling everything from citizenship to levelling up — instead of the grouping of people by particular identities. We stand by this proposal, and will be writing more in the coming weeks to strengthen our case.
Nevertheless, like many who are frustrated by the WESC — in general, and regarding its revisiting of GRA reform, in particular — we feel it’s important to make a submission to this inquiry. This is in large part because these inquiries often risk suffering from a form of self-selection bias, in which many of those submitting evidence hold extremely similar views to those of the people who’ve set up the inquiry.
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