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Transgender pool player was not discriminated against in being banned from competing in the female category: Haynes v The English Blackball Pool Federation

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Although not an employment case, this is one of the first court decisions dealing with transgender issues since the Supreme Court’s ruling in For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers (FWS) in which the Supreme Court confirmed that words such as ‘sex’, ‘woman’, ‘male’, and ‘female’ in the Equality Act 2010 (EqA) referred exclusively to biological […]

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EHRC issues interim guidance on practical implications of Supreme Court case

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Recently, we highlighted the Supreme Court’s decision in For Women Scotland Ltd  v The Scottish Ministers which ruled on the meaning of ‘woman’, ‘man’ and ‘sex’, for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010 (EqA).  Please click here for our earlier article. This case has received widespread attention and raised a significant number of practical

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