The law on single-sex spaces is a mess. It needs fixing, not political point-scoring | Sonia Sodha

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : The Equality Act includes important exceptions that allow the provision of single-sex spaces, services and sports.
54% : The clarification is sorely needed because of the way the Equality Act 2010 interacts with the Gender Recognition Act 2004.
51% : The party claims that the law in this area is clear, despite the fact it is so unclear that, as the result of a judicial review that has made its way through the Scottish courts, in the next year or so the supreme court will have to try to interpret what parliament meant by "sex" in the Equality Act.
50% : Spelling out that sex in the Equality Act means biological sex would make the law on single-sex spaces, services and sports much clearer, and so help organisations fulfil their rights and responsibilities to women.
46% : The Equality Act protects people against discrimination based on nine "protected characteristics" that include sex and gender reassignment.
44% : It is unclear whether a GRC means someone male must be considered to be female for the purposes of the Equality Act; there are valid legal arguments on both sides.
42% : Lefty men with apparently zero understanding of the implications of this legal ambiguity jumped on the bandwagon to variously label as "ghastly" and a "transphobic crusade" the moderate proposal to clarify that the protected characteristic of sex in the Equality Act refers to someone's biological sex.

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