Marcus Daniel has written a damning summary of how the Equalities and Human Rights Commission has been poisoned: what was created to promote equality has been cynically and deliberately infested with people who are bigoted not just against trans people, but against all kinds of marginalised groups. The result? An equalities body that’s actively hostile to equality; an anti-discrimination body that pushes discrimination.
The EHRC was set up in 2007 to ensure there is no discrimination based on nine protected characteristics of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. It took over the responsibilities of existing separate commissions for for Racial Inequality, Equal Opportunities and Disability Rights. It’s fair to say it’s been downhill ever since.