EHRC

New guidance for public bodies on their provision of goods, facilities and services to trans people was published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) in February 2010. The guidance was written for the EHRC by Press For Change and the Scottish Transgender Alliance.

At the same time, the Scottish Transgender Alliance was also commissioned by the EHRC to gather good practice case studies and to investigate how public bodies in Scotland, England and Wales are meeting their public sector duties in relation to trans people. Our report of our findings was originally intended just for internal EHRC use in developing its trans equality guidance. However, a wide variety of transgender groups and public bodies expressed interest in the findings so we are delighted that our report has now been published by the EHRC.

Both the report of our findings and the guidance for public bodies are available from the 'Downloads' box on the left of this page. They are also on the EHRC website at: www.equalityhumanrights.com/uploaded_files/PSD/psd_trans_guidance.pdf
and
www.equalityhumanrights.com/uploaded_files/research/psd_trans_report.pdf