UK: When equality laws go too far
1st October 2010
Guidance issued recently by the Equality and Human Rights Commission for public bodies suggseted it may be illegal for any school to require girls to wear skirts as part of their uniform, since this could discriminate against transsexual pupils.
It warned of legal action if uniforms were deemed “gender specific”.
Nurse Caroline Petrie was suspended after offering to say a prayer for an elderly lady on her ward. The tribunal heard that the patient was not offended. Ms Petrie said she “trying to do is help”. Andrea Williams, founder and director of the Christian Legal Centre, said people with traditional values were being silenced “in the name of equality and diversity policies”. Ms Petrie was later reinstated.
Political Correctness is rotting the bones of our culture.