We have a significant problem here. It was decided, by the Equality Act 2010 and the establishment of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, that the way to secure the human rights of the most vulnerable was to set them out as 9 protected characteristics. https://twitter.com/wearefaircop/status/1245714228784369664

What are they?

What was @EHRC set up to do?

So. You might think it would be worried that of the none protected characteristics, our police forces seem to focus disproportionately one one - sexual orientation - and on another which isn’t even in the Equality Act - ‘gender identity’.

And @WeAreFairCop asked them about this specifically by way of letter sent on 19th February. Answer has come there none. I hope this is due to our global health emergency or that their funding has been cut off at the knees - and not because their Chair is former Stonewall Chair.

But it would be good to get an answer. Now that we see representatives of the College of Policing calling members of the public who object to their use of false statistics about ‘trans vulnerability’ as trolls, lacking in education and full of hate.

None of this fosters good community relations or further inclusivity or reduces bigotry. On the contrary. It makes people afraid, suspicious and angry. It has to stop.

It also raises the interesting question as to whether the @EHRC are potentially in breach of their own statutory obligations, by failing to notice or take action.