{"id":5234,"date":"2026-01-10T18:49:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T18:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=5234"},"modified":"2026-01-10T18:49:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T18:49:29","slug":"judge-me-on-what-i-do-says-new-ehrc-chair-after-transgender-groups-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/01\/10\/judge-me-on-what-i-do-says-new-ehrc-chair-after-transgender-groups-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge me on what I do, says new EHRC chair after transgender groups\u2019 criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. Mary-Ann Stephenson, the new chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), has called on campaigners to &#8220;judge me on what I do&#8221; following backlash from LGBTQ+ groups over her appointment. Critics, including Stonewall and TransActual, expressed concern over her past support for gender-critical views, though Stephenson maintains her actions were rooted in a commitment to freedom of expression and democratic rights. A primary challenge for her new role is finalizing guidance on single-sex spaces, following a Supreme Court ruling that defined sex as biological for such services. Stephenson emphasized the need to balance the rights of all protected groups, stating that while single-sex services must be based on biological sex, everyone must still have access to the services they need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> December 31, 2025. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/dec\/31\/new-ehrc-chair-mary-ann-stephenson-lgbtq-transgender-groups\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Mary-Ann Stephenson, the new chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), has called on campaigners to &#8220;judge me on what I do&#8221; following backlash from LGBTQ+ groups over her appointment. Critics, including Stonewall and TransActual, expressed concern over her past support for gender-critical views, though Stephenson maintains her actions were rooted in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":5235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gender-equality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5234"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5327,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234\/revisions\/5327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}