Political parties are informed that trans women cannot be on lists of farms reserved for women, but trans men can.
It comes after the decision of the Supreme Court last week that a woman is defined by biological sex under equality law.
Lists of candidates who only include women have been used by certain parts since the mid -1990s to increase the representation of women. The plowing has introduced short lists in all women (AWS) to select half of its candidates in seats reached before the 1997 general elections.
The work and the SNP have said that they would allow trans women to access short lists for all women in the past, with some controversy.
The Commission for Equalities and Human Rights (EHRC), which applies equal laws and provides advice to political decision -makers, public sector organizations and businesses, should now provide updated advice.
The EHRC previously declared that it was an “anomaly” that a trans woman (who was born) could access a limited list of women but a trans man (who was born) could not.
Likewise, he said that there was a gap between trans women who had a certificate of recognition between the sexes (RCMP), which could legally be on a restricted list, but trans women without anyone who could not.
A RCMP is a legal document which recognizes the identity of the genre of an individual.
It is understood that the decision that sex is biological will clearly indicate that these short lists are only open to those who were born female.
AWS was initially illegal, but an act of Parliament was adopted in 2002 to make short legal lists.
A clause of the 2010 equality law extended their use until 2030, but only when women are under-represented.
It is not yet clear if the decision will have broader implications for wider efforts to increase female representation.
The Parliament of the Charitable Organization 50:50, which camps to achieve the balance between the sexes on elected organizations of the United Kingdom, regardless of political parties, said that it would “examine the judgment” and “given any impact on its work”.
The work suspended its use of short lists in all women for the general elections of 2024 because the parliamentary party had more women deputies than men.
This is no longer the case after the elections.
Women now represent 47% of labor deputies, which could reopen the discussion on AWS for the selection of parliamentary seats.
The law allows them to be used to Westminster, the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Seedd and in most local elections, where the conditions are met.
The SNP, which used AWS for the elections of the Scottish Parliament in 2021, currently does not use them because a source says that women are no longer under-represented in Holyrood.
The use of AWS is not a party policy for the conservatives, the liberal democrats, the Green Party of England and the Wales or the reform of the United Kingdom.
