In January 2023, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) held a closed-door meeting with Sex Matters, a group whose core mission is to roll back legal protections for trans people. For months, the meeting remained hidden from public view until our Freedom of Information (FOI) request forced its disclosure. The EHRC’s formal FOI response| tacc.org.uk -
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We have formally reported the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI), calling for a full investigation and a downgrade or removal of their A-status accreditation. The EHRC have been consistent in undermining the rights of trans individuals. The EHRC continually contradicts its obligations to uphold […] The post Press statement: GANHRI submission first appeared on tacc.org.uk.| tacc.org.uk
For immediate release Deeply disturbing actions by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) haveprompted a wide-ranging coalition of trans and Human Rights organisations to demand thedowngrading of the EHRC as an internationally-accredited Human Rights body. This formal challenge to the EHRC’s fitness for purpose has been brought by TransActual UK,Amnesty International UK and Trans+ […] The post Equality and Human Rights Commission faces a devastating challenge for yet again violat...| tacc.org.uk
Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective and the Trans Exile Network seek urgent re-opening of enforcement of key human rights decision against UK. Today, the Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective and the Trans Exile Network have made a joint submission to the Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law regarding the UK Supreme Court’s […] The post Press Release – Submission to the CoE Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law regarding the UK’s non-compliance in ...| tacc.org.uk
An FOI (FOI-1632059) disclosure has laid bare how the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has been quietly opening its doors to anti-rights groups, giving them access, influence, and legitimacy in shaping the future of trans healthcare. The correspondence…| tacc.org.uk
An FOI (FOI-1632059) disclosure has laid bare how the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has been quietly opening its doors to anti-rights groups, giving them access, influence, and legitimacy in shaping the future of trans healthcare. The correspondence shows Sex Matters, LGB Alliance and Transgender Trend manoeuvring their way into government as so-called| tacc.org.uk -
JK Rowling does not own my identity. Judges don't own my identity. The PM doesn't, and neither does his government.My employer, my colleagues, my friends, my family, no, they're not my identity. It isn't written on a piece of paper, given to my parents.It's not decided by other people's ideas of common sense.It's not immutable, it cannot be| tacc.org.uk -
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has quietly locked the evidence away. A Freedom of Information disclosure shows the Commission will not release its consultation report on the draft Code of Practice until after the Code has been laid before Parliament and has become statutory guidance. That means the analysis the EHRC says supports its […] The post Consultation in name only: EHRC blocks MPs and public from seeing the evidence first appeared on tacc.org.uk.| tacc.org.uk
Today, along with over 80 partner organisations, we are writing to MPs across the UK calling for robust Parliamentary scrutiny of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) forthcoming Code of Practice on Services, Public Functions and Associations. Joint letter from trans+/LGBTQ+ orgs If Bridget Phillipson, Minister for Women and Equalities, does not make provision| tacc.org.uk -
Our FOI reveals a year of correspondence showing how ministers and senior officials at the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) met repeatedly with the anti-rights group Sex Matters while shaping the government’s new digital identities framework, the system…| Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective
How a single unconfirmed complaint became a media weapon, and why trans allies need to hold the line, not fuel the fire. Scrolling through socials this week feels like watching a fire stoked from both ends, and in the middle is Marks & Spencer. Post after post calling out Marks & Spencer, condemning them for […]| Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective
We no longer recognise the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) as either independent or credible in its statutory role. The UK Government’s decision to proceed with the appointment of Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson as Chair of the EHRC despite formal objections from both the Joint Committee on Human Rights and Women and Equalities Committee marks […]| Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective
The EHRC is no longer an institution of protection. It is a tool of orchestrated erasure, and Labour is choosing to keep it that way. The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, Human Rights Watch, and eighteen United Nations experts have all explicitly named the Equality and Human Rights Commission in their condemnation of institutional harm| tacc.org.uk -
Let’s be honest. The Equality and Human Rights Commission is not acting like a neutral regulator. It is not standing above the fray. It is not impartial. And now we have over a hundred pages of internal emails to prove it. The EHRC has been captured. Through a Freedom of Information request, we obtained a| tacc.org.uk -
