Equality watchdog accused of excessive government interference and ‘politically motivated’ appointments
The UK’s equalities watchdog is facing calls for it to lose its status as an internationally recognised human rights body amid claims of politicisation and taking a “determinedly anti-trans stance”.
A coalition of 19 LGBT+ organisations led by Stonewall and supported by the Good Law Project, says the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s has taken a “recent, and significant” shift on trans rights that has prompted them to make a submission to the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions, calling for the body to lose its “A-rating”.
