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The glamorous TV host, the web of influence and a mysterious trip to Moscow – inside the downfall of Reform’s disgraced MEP
Ahead of a critical Welsh byelection for Reform next week, part two of our investigation into Nathan Gill uncovers the web of Russian influence that encircled him – and asks why it took so long to cha...
![22. In a meeting with the EHRC on 4 May 2023, the Independent Expert was shocked to hear that the EHRC offered that advice without itself having any definition of 'biological sex'; UK law provides no such definition either. The EHRC however specifically conceded that, in the context of the letter, the intended meaning of the term "biological sex" is to define women as "women who are not trans." As one
Commissioner elaborated: "under the Equality Act, [...] a trans woman who does have a GRC is a woman under the current case law. [...] if the government decides to make the amendment, they don't need to define biological sex, they can do it by way of exclusion of the GRA." It then follows that the objective of the EHRC was to offer the Government a formula through which it could carry out discriminatory distinctions currently unlawful under UK law, and that will remain so under international human rights law. The Independent Expert is of the opinion that this action of the EHRC is wholly unbecoming of an institution created to "stand up for those in need of protection and hold governments to account for their human rights obligations" (mission statement, EHRC webpage; emphasis added).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:627r27mbqfcr3ajzctpfs4gw/bafkreify6c5sa5uehtdoxwxpcoj2kkzx5tkdctnryxbtpf2bfxml6nnsim)
