I’ll give you a real, concrete example of what is happening. Anderton Park primary was the scene of some fairly ugly, to my mind, parent protests about teaching children about LGBTQ issues. It all over the news. People with influence stood up for them and their curriculum.

All the major LGBTQ orgs seem to have had something to say. Fair enough. They also won their case for an injunction banning protests near the school. Reading the case, I agree with that decision.

The court case

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2019/3217.html

The odd thing is, what they say about the equality act, there are 9 protected characteristics.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/4

The court case, snapshot in time, the school had this as their policy. I did a screenshot.

There have been changes, but they still can’t bring themselves to say that sex is a protected characteristic.

https://www.andertonparkschool.org/school/equality 

All the human rights lawyers and orgs interested, on their side that they should teach the UKs equality legislation, age appropriately ....

They get it wrong.

“We fully uphold and believe in the Equality Act 2010 and do not discriminate against anyone because of gender, race and nationality, age, disability, sexual orientation (and gender identity, LGBT+) , pregnancy, religion or beliefs or marital status”

What is missing. Well, they added some more, but still can’t even conceive that they shouldn’t discriminatte on the basis of sex.

Are they saying they can discriminate on the basis of sex? Don’t understand the law?

I find it amazing with all the UK’s lawyers who are interested in LGBTQ rights and issues someone didn’t set them straight on this.

I think they might not care about sex discrimination..