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Written by the Law Society's LGBT+ Committee but published and promoted to law firms without wider consultation of Law Society members, the template states that the Equality Act 2010 is not fit for purpose. It also dismisses sex, one of the protected characteristics under the Equality Act, as being based on stereotypes, placing a question mark over the Law Society's support for sex-based rights and issues.

the template also serves to codify more contentious positions.

It embeds in law firms the position that the Equality Act and the Gender Recognition Act 2004 (GRA) “fall short in protecting and assisting the trans and non-binary community".

Sex is real. The fact that some transgender people value gender identity over sex doesn't invalidate the importance of sex to women who can't identify out of their oppression. There's a reason why women fought for their own spaces. If someone has a different identity, fine, but people shouldn't be forced to participate in how others see themselves.