Karl Limpert

@ForWomenScot @Sport_England @sharrond62 Baroness Finn for the Tories. Who takes a whole year to publish a Code of Practice....? When will it end? (Still no answer) 4/

@ForWomenScot Why does @Sport_England continue to give money to sports bodies who do not protect the female category & continue to break the law? Thank you @sharrond62 3/

Following the Westminster Hall debate with @ClaireCoutinho @carlalockhart @RosieDuffield1 @ForWomenScot @A_Minichiello and plus President of the Darlington Nursing Union, Bethany Hutchison and nurse Jennifer Melle

Labour Peer, Lord Rooker, magnificantly angry in House of Lords today over EHRC Code of Practice publication delay. "It's an absolutely disgraceful way to operate!" @ForWomenScot 1/

Entertaining & friendly chat with Sir Robin Wales on Open* Newham. "When I left office... It was after the introduction of policies which had a direct benefit on our residents" Shame so many policies ignored or broke the law! opennewham.co.uk/news/interview… *Open only to their views

I've written about what we've learned from Bridget Phillipson's statement today on the single-sex services guidance - and why it's taken so dreadfully long to travel such a short distance. comment.press/bridget-philli…

And therein lies the most depressing truth: "Labour isn't delivering". Wait ages for them, and get this drizzle of a bunch.

Sack senior Green councillor in London who called David Lammy a 'coconut,' Zack Polanski is urged standard.co.uk/news/politics/…

How does "improve parking" - means more free parking - sit alongside "safer streets", @newham_labour ? Find a clear place to cross - youtube.com/watch?v=xR7_Bz… . Not possible when the whole road is full of parked cars. Maybe history will be made when Labour lose this council.

More worryingly, they may have represented it as "tone" but ministers may have been lobbying the EHRC for something substantively different, that Phillipson instructed her lawyers to argue for in High Court: that female-only services should be able to admit men who identify as female without losing their single-sex status.

The draft Code was leaked, so we know it was appropriately factual. This suggestion that govt was demanding it be more "inclusive" worrying. EHRC is independent of govt and it would be totally inappropriate for ministers to be lobbying it on something as ephemeral as "tone".

Excl: Bridget Phillipson told Britain’s equality regulator that it must “tone down” its guidance over single-sex spaces and make it more inclusive before she presents it to parliament. Phillipson said today she would publish the EHRC code of conduct next month after the local elections, and the EHRC confirmed it had "made adjustments where they help the code provide legally accurate, practical guidance that is useful to duty bearers". A source with knowledge of the process said much of the discussion had been over the “tone” of the document, with a feeling it had been approached with the aim of excluding transgender people rather than finding inclusive ways of operating while also upholding the law. Sources close to Phillipson said they "completely dispute" that she asked the regulator to "tone down" the guidance. They said the request was that the EHRC ensured there was clarity for all kinds of services and that the code was accessible and robust. The Times understands that the changes that have been made to the resubmitted code are minimal and that while the guidance itself will not change, the regulator had been asked to include more examples of how organisations can be inclusive within the law. thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

More for the regular #WhatLabourHasNotDone

@boswelltoday @jenn26265 @soniasodha Think they've only seen the old version, from Sept, if I read the article correctly: "The Times understands that the changes that have been made to the resubmitted code are minimal." the suggestions are that it only provides more examples, rather than change to the text...

@KarlLimpert @jenn26265 @soniasodha It still hasn’t been sent but The Times has seen it and there is nothing controversial in its contents.

Update: Bridget Phillipson has now made a nothingburger written statement. Claims to be "getting it right, showing leadership." Thanks but we, the voters, will be the judge of that one.

@jenn26265 @boswelltoday @soniasodha Have you seen the draft? because it's not been published, and was only sent to the minister yesterday.

@boswelltoday @soniasodha @KarlLimpert Yes, there is no mention of bathrooms.

Snail's pace. Why on earth did it take ministers months and months to deliver "a narrow set of comments". The only plausible explanation is they *wanted* to delay the EHRC Code of Practice being laid before Parliament.

🚨Well this is rather marvellous.🚨 The EHRC’s updated Code is in and the Government says it intends to lay it before Parliament in May. Slowly, laboriously and against absurd resistance, the law is being dragged back towards reality. questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statem…

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