Equality Standard for Sport update
Following a comprehensive review, the Equality Standard for Sport has now been withdrawn. A new Moving to Inclusion Framework has been created to help sport and physical activity and movement organisations work towards embedding inclusivity in every part of their business and ways of working. View the Moving to inclusion website.
Gender Reassignment
Definition
A person has the protected characteristic of gender reassignment if the person is proposing to undergo, is undergoing or has undergone a process (or part of a process) for the purpose of reassigning the person’s sex by changing physiological or other attributes of sex.
Legislation
Great Britain
Under the Equality Act 2010, Trans people cannot be directly or indirectly discriminated against, nor can they be harassed.
Northern Ireland
Gender Reassignment is not one of the protected characteristics covered under Section 75 of the NI Act. However according to the Equality Commission, Sex discrimination law protects you from direct discrimination, harassment and victimisation if you are planning to undergo, are undergoing or have undergone gender reassignment. The Gender Reassignment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 amends the SDO to make it unlawful to discriminate on grounds of gender reassignment (sex change) in employment and training.
The Gender Recognition Act (2004) provides transsexual people with legal recognition in their acquired gender, subject to some specified exceptions.
Publications
House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee Transgender Equality First Report of Session 2015–16
PDF, 729.04 KB, 98 Pages
Transsexual People – Eligibility to Compete in Domestic Competition
PDF, 1.61 MB, 1 page
Transsexual People – Eligibility to Compete in International Competition
PDF, 1.44 MB, 1 page
Transgender and Intersex sports provision at the University of Cambridge
PDF, 1.14 MB, 1 page
European Union lesbian, gay,bisexual and transgender survey: Results at a glance. European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, 17 May 2013 (36 pages)
PDF, 1.26 MB, 1 page
Transexual People and competitive sport guidance for national govering bodies of sport
PDF, 4.06 MB, 37 pages