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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Libby Brooks

LGBT+ groups call for EHRC to lose international status over trans stance

Nancy Kelley, head of Stonewall
Nancy Kelley, head of Stonewall, which is leading a coalition calling for the EHRC to lose its A-rating. Photograph: Andy Hall/The Observer

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 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”.

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