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They're doing the rehabilitation routine for Jeffrey Archer. Incredible to watch tbh. There are no levels of corruption, sleaze and criminality these people won't excuse if you're part of the gang
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![Dear Mr Powell,
I write to you again regarding the Equality and Human Rights Commission's draft code of practice [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/equality-act-2010-draft-code-of-practice-for-services-public-functions-and-associations-2026].
Now that the draft has been published it is clear that the sections relating to trans peoples' access to services and associations is harmful, incoherent, and unworkable cobblers.
The code of practice unlawfully establishes a hierarchy of protected characteristics, leaving trans people open to victimisation and harassment at the whim of transphobic bad-faith activists. It purports to allow service providers to exclude trans people from both male and female single-sex spaces. It suggests that a person may be challenged to provide confirmation of their sex while also acknowledging that "There is no type of official record or document in the UK which provides reliable evidence of sex." The guidance is self-contradictory with regard to the effects of a Gender Recognition Certificate and risks rendering the Gender Recognition Act (2004) a nullity.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g5lptai564vlsuhupuoqnmmm/bafkreiec2ojjkjdpe6sxusnrm24yopvo6iv3mpieoijyqalrkcl67b7o4a)
![The incoherence of the code of practice stems from two facts: the faulty judgment of the Supreme Court in For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers [2025] UKSC 16, and the institutional capture of the EHRC by transphobic activists (started by appointments made by the last Conservative government and regrettably continued by the current Labour administration). Both of these problems can be changed by Parliament: through amending the Human Rights Act to correctly clarify the protections for trans people that the FWS judgement muddled, and through reconstituting the EHRC's membership and remit.
In the meantime, and more urgently, the draft code of practice must be opposed by voting down the effectuating statutory instrument.
I urge you to support your colleagues, including Nadia Whittome MP, who have already raised their concerns about the draft code of practice; to vote against the implementation of the code of practice; to press for reform of the EHRC; and to support measures to correctly clarify the intent of Parliament when it passed the Human Rights Act to protect the rights and dignity of trans people.
Yours sincerely](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g5lptai564vlsuhupuoqnmmm/bafkreih3fcl2s527fq4kon4bcgly4ycesupgedftfmyj5lmwm3ghzcxagy)
