Bridget Phillipson faces choice over document from EHRC, whose chair says it remains ‘difficult’ to shape policies
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The equalities watchdog has submitted its formal guidance about how institutions should respond to the landmark supreme court ruling on transgender people’s rights, with its chair admitting it would be “difficult” for many to shape workable policies.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has handed the guidance to Bridget Phillipson, the minister for women and equalities as well as the education secretary, who must now decide whether to accept it.
One EHRC source said that while the decision-making on the guidance was restricted to a small group of people around the group’s outgoing chair, Kishwer Falkner, the expectation was that it would closely reflect interim advice released by the watchdog in April.
