{"id":39128,"date":"2025-12-31T00:15:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/judge-me-on-what-i-do-says-new-ehrc-chair-after-transgender-groups-criticism\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T00:15:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:15:47","slug":"judge-me-on-what-i-do-says-new-ehrc-chair-after-transgender-groups-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/judge-me-on-what-i-do-says-new-ehrc-chair-after-transgender-groups-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge me on what I do, says new EHRC chair after transgender groups\u2019 criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mary-Ann Stephenson says she must build relationship with LGBTQ+ sector amid debate over single-sex spaces<\/p>\n<p>The new chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission has asked campaigners who raised doubts about her appointment to \u201cjudge me on what I do\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In one of her first media interviews since her appointment at the start of December, Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson pledged to \u201cuphold the rights of everybody across all protected characteristics\u201d, after the UK government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/jul\/31\/mary-ann-stephenson-confirmed-as-ehrc-chair-despite-mps-objections\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">overruled the objections<\/a> of parliament\u2019s women and equalities committee about her suitability for the job.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/dec\/31\/new-ehrc-chair-mary-ann-stephenson-lgbtq-transgender-groups\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary-Ann Stephenson says she must build relationship with LGBTQ+ sector amid debate over single-sex spaces The new chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission has asked campaigners who raised doubts about her appointment to \u201cjudge me on what I do\u201d. In one of her first media interviews since her appointment at the start of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 13:48:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}