Drop-in session to complete the university’s new Equality Impact Assessment- a change that will impact students and staff at UWE

Background

UWE has updated its Trans and Non-Binary policy this week, in order to comply with the Supreme Court ruling. An equality impact assessment (EIA) is now underway until 18th October in order to assess how this impacts the community at UWE.

Equality Impact Assessment

The LGBTQIA+ Network will be running three Equality Impact Assessment workshop sessions next week. These sessions are designed to answer questions, help with any technical issues accessing the EIA form, and generally to give people who may be stressed about the changes space to speak about their fears and recognise that they are not alone. These sessions are open to everyone. Whilst this change impacts trans people most of all, there are numerous other people on campus who may wish to respond to this policy change. For example;

• Disabled people who are worried that their own disabled facilities may be impacted by the change
• Cis women (women who are not trans) who are not gender conforming, who feel scared that they may be approached in the toilet
• Cis men and women who feel frustrated by the change in policy (for example women who have signed the Not In Our Name petition, which has over 50,000 signatures)
• Allies of trans people (i.e. friends, family, other members of the LGBTQIA+ network)

The sessions will be run at the following times;

• Monday 29th September; Online at 2-4pm-  Join the meeting now
• Tuesday 30th September; At Frenchay from 2-4pm in room 2S708
• Thursday 2nd September; At Bower from 9-11 in room 2B005

You do not need to be a member of our network to join us. If you have questions about the changes or want to speak to someone about how these changes have impacted you, we are here to help.