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Summary 5

1. Terminology 8

2. The Gender Recognition Act 2004 9

2.1. Applications for legal gender recognition 10

The standard route 10

Alternative route 11

Overseas route 12

Disclosure of information 12

Statistics on outcomes 12

2.2. Consultation on GRA reform, 2018 to 2020 14

2.3. Women and Equalities Committee inquiry 15

2.4. The position in Scotland 16

2.5. Labour Party manifesto 2024 17

3. The Equality Act 2010 18

3.1. Protections against discrimination 18

Sex discrimination 18

Gender reassignment 18

3.2. Exceptions to the Equality Act's protections 19

Sport 19

Services 20

Occupational requirements 20

Communal accommodation 21

Armed forces 21

4. Interaction between the Equality Act and the Gender Recognition Act 23

4.1. For Women Scotland litigation 23

4.2. Interpretation of the Equality Act 24

The legal sex interpretation 24

The biological sex interpretation 25

4.3. Providers of single-sex services 26

Does a GRC affect the proportionality of a policy? 27

Does the objective justification test affect women-only service providers? 27

Case-by-case decision making 28

5. Calls for change 30

5.1. Maintaining the Equality Act and improving guidance 30

A flexible definition of sex? 31

5.2. Defining sex as biological sex in the Equality Act 2010 32

5.3. Single-sex services 32

Freedom of association 33

Other areas 33

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This briefing analyses the debate on the interaction between the Gender Recognition Act 2004 and the Equality Act 2010.

The Gender Recognition Act 2004 enables adults to apply for a gender recognition certificate which changes their gender for most legal purposes. There is some uncertainty as to how it interacts with the Equality Act 2010, which protects people from discrimination on the basis of certain protected characteristics, including sex and gender reassignment.