Clause 4
Equality Bill
1:45 pm
Ann Winterton (Congleton, Conservative)
With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: amendment 118, in clause 15, page 11, line 3, leave out ‘reassignment’ and insert ‘identity’.
Amendment 119, in clause 15, page 11, line 12, leave out ‘7(1)’, and insert ‘[Gender identity] (1)(a)’.
Amendment 120, in clause 24, page 17, line 37, leave out ‘reassignment’ and insert ‘identity’.
Amendment 121, in clause 24, page 17, line 42, leave out ‘reassignment’ and insert ‘identity’.
Amendment 123, in schedule 3, page 151, line 18, leave out ‘reassignment’ and insert ‘identity’.
Amendment 124, in schedule 3, page 157, line 20, leave out ‘reassignment’ and insert ‘identity’.
Amendment 125, in schedule 3, page 159, line 5, leave out ‘reassignment’ and insert ‘identity’.
Amendment 122, in clause 188, page 134, line 26, leave out ‘reassignment’ and insert ‘identity’.
New clause 8—Gender identity—
‘(1) A person has the protected characteristic of gender identity if the person is or is perceived to be—
(a) a person intending to undergo, undergoing, or having undergone gender reassignment, where gender reassignment means a process which is undertaken under medical supervision for the purpose of reassigning the person’s sex by changing physiological or other characteristics of sex, and includes any part of such a process;
(b) a person living permanently in the gender role different from that expected of a person of their recorded natal sex;
(c) a person who has, by virtue of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 (c.7), received recognition of their acquired gender for all legal purposes; or
(d) a person who has a gender identity that is different from that expected of a person of their recorded natal sex, provided that behaviour is not unlawful or offensive.
(2) A reference to a transgender person is a reference to a person who has the protected characteristic of gender identity.
(3) In relation to the protected characteristic of gender identity—
(a) a reference to a person who has a particular protected characteristic is a reference to a transgender person;
(b) a reference to persons who share a protected characteristic is a reference to transgender persons.’.