THE UK Government Equalities Office has not yet managed to include intersex in strategic planning, and now the GEO’s Advancing transgender equality: a plan for action does not include intersex.
Government Equalities Office: Advancing transgender equality: a plan for action, December 2011 - click to download and read this PDF.
Including intersex in what it is not
Over the last year, GEO officers have been promising to fully and equally include intersex in their transgender research efforts, despite the two issues being very different.
The GEO have not reported on intersex as intersex, of transgender, and have stuck with an “LGB&T” only strategy.
Each time a survey appears they only seem to inform transgender people and organizations, not intersex people and organizations. We recommend that the GEO should advertise outside the trans community.
The GEO says it understands about intersex
We have been told that officers of the GEO do, indeed, understand that intersex is not somehow transgender and do indeed understand that intersex people need equality, human rights and protection against discrimination just as “LGB&T” people do. But we are not yet included.
