A new addition to the UK Equality Act, made official on September 16, 2020, will provide greater protection to the gender non-conforming community by recognising non-binary identities.
According to Forbes, the amendments to the Equality Act encompass ‘non-binary and gender fluid people’. It confirms these people do ‘fall under the gender reassignment category’ which is already covered in the rulings.The ambiguity as to whether the UK Equality Act previously covered non-binary people was brought to public attention when a non-binary Jaguar engineer, Ms Taylor, was discriminated against on the ground of gender reassignment.