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Equality Act 2010

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  • The need for authenticity or realism might require someone of a particular race, sex or age for acting roles (for example, a black man to play the part of Othello) or modelling jobs.

  • Considerations of privacy or decency might require a public changing room or lavatory attendant to be of the same sex as those using the facilities.

  • An organisation for deaf people might legitimately employ a deaf person who uses British Sign Language to work as a counsellor to other deaf people whose first or preferred language is BSL.

  • Unemployed Muslim women might not take advantage of the services of an outreach worker to help them find employment if they were provided by a man.

  • A counsellor working with victims of rape might have to be a woman and not a transsexual person, even if she has a Gender Recognition Certificate, in order to avoid causing them further distress.

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