The Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (Amendment) Regulations 2008
These Regulations add protection from discrimination for trans people in the areas of The Provision of Goods, Services, Facilities and Premises.
The Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007
This is an updated version of the Equality Act of 2006. The legislation outlaws discrimination in a range of important areas, from hospitals to schools in the public sector and B & Bs to banking in the private sector.
The Equality Act 2006
Primary legislation which establishes a Commission for Equality and Human Rights as well as introducing a public sector duty to promote gender equality.
It includes an enabling clause to allow legislation to outlaw discrimination in goods and services based upon sexual orientation.
The Gender Recognition (Disclosure of Information), (England, Wales & Northern Ireland) Order of 2005
This Order Lays out exemptions to the privacy provisions of the Gender Recognition Act 2004.
Gender Recognition Act 2004
The Act gives transsexual people legal recognition as members of the sex appropriate to their gender (male or female) allowing them to acquire a new birth certificate affording them full recognition of their acquired sex in law for all purposes, including marriage.
The Act revokes none of the rights or privileges afforded to transsexual people by law or special rrangement that existed before the act.
Equally, it affords no company, person, or civil body (except for the purposes of obtaining an amended birth certificate) the right to request of a transsexual person a gender recognition certificate or evidence thereof.
In fact, the existence of a Gender Recognition Certificate is specifically protected as private information under the Act, and for a company to disclose its existence or a persons transsexual history, having obtained knowledge of it in an official capacity, is a criminal offence.
The Protection from Harassment Act of 1997
This Act introduced four new criminal offences which have been used by trans people to obtain justice.
These Regulations add protection from discrimination for trans people in the areas of The Provision of Goods, Services, Facilities and Premises.
The Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007
This is an updated version of the Equality Act of 2006. The legislation outlaws discrimination in a range of important areas, from hospitals to schools in the public sector and B & Bs to banking in the private sector.
The Equality Act 2006
Primary legislation which establishes a Commission for Equality and Human Rights as well as introducing a public sector duty to promote gender equality.
It includes an enabling clause to allow legislation to outlaw discrimination in goods and services based upon sexual orientation.
The Gender Recognition (Disclosure of Information), (England, Wales & Northern Ireland) Order of 2005
This Order Lays out exemptions to the privacy provisions of the Gender Recognition Act 2004.
Gender Recognition Act 2004
The Act gives transsexual people legal recognition as members of the sex appropriate to their gender (male or female) allowing them to acquire a new birth certificate affording them full recognition of their acquired sex in law for all purposes, including marriage.
The Act revokes none of the rights or privileges afforded to transsexual people by law or special rrangement that existed before the act.
Equally, it affords no company, person, or civil body (except for the purposes of obtaining an amended birth certificate) the right to request of a transsexual person a gender recognition certificate or evidence thereof.
In fact, the existence of a Gender Recognition Certificate is specifically protected as private information under the Act, and for a company to disclose its existence or a persons transsexual history, having obtained knowledge of it in an official capacity, is a criminal offence.
The Protection from Harassment Act of 1997
This Act introduced four new criminal offences which have been used by trans people to obtain justice.
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