# Equality Act 2010, Section 7: Gender reassignment


(1) A person has the protected characteristic of gender reassignment if the 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.
(2) A reference to a transsexual person is a reference to a person who has the protected characteristic of gender reassignment.
(3) In relation to the protected characteristic of gender reassignment—
(a) a reference to a person who has a particular protected characteristic is a reference to a transsexual person;
(b) a reference to persons who share a protected characteristic is a reference to transsexual persons.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010/section-7
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