Understand the LGBTQIA+ news: AI will be used to manage "scale" of responses to EHRC plans to segregate Trans+ people
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Understand the LGBTQIA+ news: AI will be used to manage "scale" of responses to EHRC plans to segregate Trans+ people

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Understand the LGBTQIA+ headlines and keep track of the latest queer content and perspectives. The QueerAF newsletter is written by Jamie Wareham, and a different queer creative each week.

πŸ’¬ This week:

  • EHRC AI use: Following leaked conversations and allegations that AI could lead to ignoring some responses to the Equality Watchdog's consultation on segregating Trans+ people from bathrooms, the regulator has confirmed it’s implemented "supervised use of AI".
  • Labour split: Are Trans+ rights set to divide the party that many once cautiously considered an ally to the LGBTQIA+ community? We explore analysis of member and MP responses to the Supreme Court ruling.
  • Online Safety Act: Could restrictions on 'adult content' be a pathway for banning LGBTQIA+ content too? Our resident sub-editor Rowan Gavin explores in the Queer Gaze.

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EHRC confirms AI is being used on consultation responses about segregating Trans+ people from UK bathrooms

TL;DR: An EHRC spokesperson confirmed that "supervised use of AI" has been implemented to contend with the 50,000+ responses to its draft consultation that could make it statutory to segregate Trans+ people from single sex public bathrooms and changing facilities.