Editing Discrimination against nonbinary people
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<blockquote>"The Equality Act 2010 protects people from discrimination if it arises from their being perceived as either male or female. We recognise that a very small number of people consider themselves to be of neither gender. We are not aware that that results in any specific detriment, and it is not Government policy to identify such people for the purpose of issuing non-gender-specific official documents".<ref>https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/104639 [https://web.archive.org/web/20230405153640/https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/104639 Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>"The Equality Act 2010 protects people from discrimination if it arises from their being perceived as either male or female. We recognise that a very small number of people consider themselves to be of neither gender. We are not aware that that results in any specific detriment, and it is not Government policy to identify such people for the purpose of issuing non-gender-specific official documents".<ref>https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/104639 [https://web.archive.org/web/20230405153640/https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/104639 Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref></blockquote> | ||
The Ministry of Justice chose not to recognize nonbinary genders because it believes they are too few, and it believes that they don't face any discrimination. It didn't give proof of either of these views. It said that nonbinary people are not protected under the Equality Act, which was created to protect other kinds of transgender people. In response, many nonbinary people in the UK voiced their objections to this. '' | The Ministry of Justice chose not to recognize nonbinary genders because it believes they are too few, and it believes that they don't face any discrimination. It didn't give proof of either of these views. It said that nonbinary people are not protected under the Equality Act, which was created to protect other kinds of transgender people. In response, many nonbinary people in the UK voiced their objections to this. ''Beyond the Binary'', a magazine run by nonbinary people, collected responses from 80 nonbinary people about what kinds of discrimination they have faced for being nonbinary, and said of these, | ||
<blockquote>"There was obvious upset at being written off as a small and unimportant group, especially when there are far more who identify as non-binary in the UK than people realise – though being a minority should not affect what protections marginalised groups are afforded in law. A strong general feeling was that if the government wasn’t aware of specific detriment to non-binary people, they should at least acknowledge the need to fund proper research and seek opinion on a diversity of experiences".<ref name="BeyondBinaryDetriment">"#SpecificDetriment: what you told us." ''Beyond the Binary''. September 19, 2015. [https://web.archive.org/web/20230719111624/https://www.xilo.net/?utm_source=beyondthebinary.co.uk&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=holding/specificdetriment-what-you-told-ushttp:/beyondthebinary.co.uk/specificdetriment-what-you-told-us/]</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>"There was obvious upset at being written off as a small and unimportant group, especially when there are far more who identify as non-binary in the UK than people realise – though being a minority should not affect what protections marginalised groups are afforded in law. A strong general feeling was that if the government wasn’t aware of specific detriment to non-binary people, they should at least acknowledge the need to fund proper research and seek opinion on a diversity of experiences".<ref name="BeyondBinaryDetriment">"#SpecificDetriment: what you told us." ''Beyond the Binary''. September 19, 2015. [https://web.archive.org/web/20230719111624/https://www.xilo.net/?utm_source=beyondthebinary.co.uk&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=holding/specificdetriment-what-you-told-ushttp:/beyondthebinary.co.uk/specificdetriment-what-you-told-us/]</ref></blockquote> |