Clause 1 - Applications
Gender Recognition Bill [Lords]
10:00 am
Dr Evan Harris (Oxford West and Abingdon, Liberal Democrat)
The hon. Member for Daventry mentioned discrimination. Transgendered people have in theory been protected from discrimination if they are from a country that is a member of the Council of Europe by the European convention on human rights, and if they are from a EU member state by the equal treatment directive. The judgment in the case of P v. S and Cornwall county council was made in favour of a transgendered person long before we had the Bill. There would be some things that one could rely on, but the full panoply present in the Bill would be difficult on a short trip. Whether it would be needed is more questionable.