EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept reduced rights after years of ‘lies’

<p>Akua Reindorf said law never permitted self-ID, but trans campaigners call remarks ‘profoundly unhelpful’</p><p>Transgender people must accept a reduction in their rights after the supreme court decision on gender because they “have been lied to over many years” about what their rights actually were, one of the commissioners drawing up the official post-ruling guidance has said.</p><p>Speaking <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=QxEH0cGzIgs">at a debate</a> about the repercussions of April’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/16/critics-of-trans-rights-win-uk-supreme-court-case-over-definition-of-woman">ruling that “woman” in the Equality Act refers only to a biological woman</a>, Akua Reindorf said trans people had been misled about their rights and there “has to be a period of correction”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/06/ehrc-commissioner-calls-for-trans-people-to-accept-reduced-rights-after-years-of-lies">Continue reading...</a>