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Recommendation 20
20
Deferred
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We recommend that the Government Equalities Office conduct a review into the use of the...
Recommendation
We recommend that the Government Equalities Office conduct a review into the use of the occupational requirement exception and how it is currently being applied. This review should consider the role of the GRA and how it interacts with the Equality Act and employment laws, and make recommendations to strengthen protections for trans and gender non-conforming people at work. Measures of progress and targets must be set to reduce and eliminate gender-based discrimination in the workplace.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government redirected the recommendation for the GEO to conduct a review into occupational requirement exceptions, stating that the EHRC has committed to issuing separate guidance on these provisions. It did not commit to the broader scope of a review, making recommendations, or setting targets requested by the committee.
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Government Response
Deferred
HM Government · verbatim extract
Deferred
42. In September 2021, the Sports Councils’ Equality Group published the Guidance for Transgender Inclusion in Domestic Sport4. The Sports Councils are currently working with a small number of sports to pilot some practical ways of using the Guidance, with the aim of then disseminating the learnings from the various approaches within the different sports. The National Governing Bodies (NGBs) involved in this pilot cover a broad range of sporting activity and the Sports Councils are confident at this time that the results will be translatable across the vast majority of other NGBs. The Sports Councils and the NGBs are committed to this for the next 6 months.
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