Gender identity

Suffolk Police will ensure that it treats everyone equally and fairly regardless of their gender identity.

As of October 2010 the Government Office of Equality released the new Equality Act 2010, which covers all areas of diversity to ensure fair and equal treatment.

Gender reassignment now has its own section and falls under this act, which is also known as and transgender.

The Equality Act 2010 protects people who have the characteristic of gender reassignment. This means if a person is proposing to undergo, is undergoing or has undergone a process (or part of a process) for the purpose of reassigning the person’s sex by changing physiological or other attributes of sex.

A reference to a transsexual person is a reference to a person who has the protected characteristic of gender reassignment.

In relation to the protected characteristic of gender reassignment:

• A reference to a person who has a particular protected characteristic
• A reference to a transsexual person
• A reference to persons who share a protected characteristic is a reference to transsexual persons.