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Bordering on the absurd that they’d wait until now, a month after the accreditation session started, to act on that.

Recall that the UN is currently reviewing the EHRC’s accreditation as a human rights body in part because it is accused of failing to engage in meaningful consultations with groups focussed on the human rights of trans people…

… and culminating in the Government dropping trans people from its proposed conversion therapy ban. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-609470…

… described by anti-trans groups as “very welcome” …

transgendertrend.com/ehrc-governmen…

… a moment described by anti-trans groups as a “turning point” in their campaign against the dignity and rights of trans people…

sex-matters.org/posts/single-s…

Her famous “support” for a conversion therapy ban, including the time she deliberately sabotaged the government’s conversion therapy ban…

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

We also received a letter from the EHRC on behalf of Kishwer Falkner. This is clearly to counteract the official investigation by GANHRI on their continued failings towards the LGBT community especially where trans rights are concerned. We endorse all the points raised by TSN below.