Gender Identity Research and Education Society http://www.gires.org.uk
Registered Charity No: 1068137
Improving the lives of trans people [email protected]
01372 801554
GIRES, Melverley, The Warren
Ashtead, Surrey KT21 2SP, England
Collecting Information on Gender Identity
Executive summary
Public authorities in England, and those contracted to provide services on their behalf, are now
preparing for the commencement of the specific duties that arise from the Equality Act (2010).
These include a requirement to publish, by 31 January 2012, relevant information about employees
and service users who are protected by the gender reassignment characteristic.
A few individuals experience a mismatch between the way they look on the outside and how they
feel inside. This condition is increasingly understood to have its origins before birth. The people who
experience it do so to varying degrees and express it in a variety of ways. For some, the experience
is so intolerable that they transition to live permanently in the opposite gender role, supported in
most cases by medical treatment to align the way they look with their innate gender identities.
These persons have the gender reassignment characteristic that is protected under the Equality Act
(2010). The Act also protects those associated with them, such as family members, and those who
are perceived to have the characteristic. ..........more @ http://www.gires.org.uk/assets/Workplace/CollectingInfo.pdf
http://gendersociety.com/forums/topic/7974/confidentiality
http://gendersociety.com/articles/267/guidance-for-the-media
Hi Cristine. Seems like ages since we last spoke. I hope you are well. Regarding this forum post...I have to confess that I do not fully understand what it is or what has happened or why. If it is data mining by a governement agency that makes me highly suspicious. I do not trust the Tories at all. Its worth remembering that Cameron chose to abstain on the vote for the GRA and that Tebbit created the wrecking clause to try to scupper it. I beleive he has called SRS mutilation in the past. The only opposition to the GRA came from the Tories. Hi to everyone long time no see :)
Firstly, I gather the consolidation of this information is to judge the effectiveness of the revisions of the GRA 201o, its implication on the standards of service, improvement or not... in employment, services, treatment etc. and will be anonymous
Secondly my understanding of the confidetiality part of the act, it would be unlawful for people to be forced to sign a disclaimer/ consent to disclosure. of personal information. There are actual guidelines and punishments laid down for disclosure of information.
I am concerned about Alison's post ''Incidentally Charing Cross have started requiring patients to sign a consent to disclosure form before they will continue their substandard treatment of their victims, '' I will be seeking more advice on this, The details and information required on this disclosure form, Does it mean IF you refuse to sign away your privacy rights WILL a person be denied treatment. Will we eventually have lists by name of all the people treated in each hospital for, ingrowing toe nails, broken leg, syphilis, clamydia. etc etc etc. published in newspapers, with costs and what each individual had for supper during their stay in hospital?