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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

EHRC commissioner calls for ‘period of correction’ on trans rights after legal ruling

Protesters march in Whitehall in support of trans rights, carrying placards and the transgender flag
Protesters march in Whitehall in support of trans rights, following the Supreme Court ruling that the definition of a woman is based on biological sex. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

Transgender people must acknowledge a “period of correction” of rights after the supreme court decision on gender because they “have been lied to over many years” about what their rights actually were, one of the commissioners drawing up the official post-ruling guidance has said.

Speaking at a debate about the repercussions of April’s ruling that “woman” in the Equality Act refers only to a biological woman, Akua Reindorf said trans people had been misled about their rights and there “has to be a period of correction, because other people have rights”.

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