The GRA Group

Working party to resolve the issues with the Gender Recognition ACT 2004 and with other affected legislation.

The forum for this discussion is on Slack, you will need to be registered to participate.

AN EMAIL TO THE ‘PEOPLE’S TRIBUNAL’ TO BE HELD ON 21st, 22nd and 23rd June 2021

Background For a very clear and useful explanation of what the hell is going on please see this post from Glinner by JL In essence: The Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is an international human rights treaty adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1979. Although the UK signed up …

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My thoughts on challenging Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Surveys that do not collect data on sex.

At the meeting on 13th May 2021 I agreed to set down my thoughts about how best to challenge these surveys. I hope you find this helpful as I will suggest ways of framing a letter to your organisation. I had some success with my regulator the Bar Standards Board. Initially their survey question for …

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GRARG Going forward. MEETING 18th MARCH 2021 8pm

Zoom link for meeting We need to make sure we are complimenting and not duplicating the work of other groups which are challenging the harmful conflation of ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ in official policies, advice and legistation.  This may cause some tension when contacting other groups, as the fundamental founding principle of GRARG is that we …

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Meeting of GRARG 21st January 2021

Next meeting: FEBRUARY 18th 2021 Time 8pm Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86798717951?pwd=d2kzbnRUZGo1YitKRjJheDFjMy9KQT09 AGENDA Set short and medium term strategy Report on progress at next meeting. End the conflation of ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ in legal/policy/organisation’s documents. If this conflation can be removed, much of the difficulties with the current GRA will go. Members to examine submissions to the …

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