Section 7: Gender reassignment

Equality Act 2010 · 2010 c. 15View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 2: Equality: key concepts — Chapter 1: Protected characteristics

A person has the protected characteristic of gender reassignment if the person is proposing to undergo, is undergoing or has undergone a process (or part of a process) for the purpose of reassigning the person's sex by changing physiological or other attributes of sex.

A reference to a transsexual person is a reference to a person who has the protected characteristic of gender reassignment.

In relation to the protected characteristic of gender reassignment—

a reference to a person who has a particular protected characteristic is a reference to a transsexual person;
a reference to persons who share a protected characteristic is a reference to transsexual persons.

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