Lloyds Bank pledges to support transgender staff after landmark Supreme Court ruling – ‘It’s a very tough time!’ Lloyds Bank pledges to support trans staff after Supreme Court ruling
Britain’s biggest bank has pledged solidarity with its transgender staff after a landmark Supreme Court ruling which determined sex-based discrimination laws should only apply to biological women.
Executives at Lloyds Bank, which serves one in two British adults, have vowed to support transgender employees during what they called a “very tough time”.
Hours after the judgment, Andrew Walton, Lloyds’s chief corporate affairs director, posted a message of support on the bank’s intranet.
“Thought I would come on here today with a note of support for our trans and non-binary colleagues on what I know will be an unsettling day following the UK Supreme Court decision,” he wrote on Lloyds’s Rainbow network.
Lloyds Bank serves one in two British adults
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Gender-critical campaigners outside the Supreme Court after it ruled sex-based discrimination laws should only apply to biological women
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The bank’s stance on trans issues has previously drawn criticism after it offered free counselling to its 30,000 employees after comments by Kemi Badenoch and Rishi Sunak at the 2023 Conservative Party conference
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The bank’s stance on trans issues has previously drawn criticism after it offered free counselling to its 30,000 employees after comments by Kemi Badenoch and Rishi Sunak at the 2023 Conservative Party conference.
Badenoch had said she would not apologise for “fighting for a society that knows what a woman is”.
While Sunak had added: “A man is a man, and a woman is a woman; that’s just common sense.”
In response to these comments, Sarah Underhill, then human resources director at Lloyds Bank, sent an email to employees saying she was “appalled to hear the rhetoric coming from the Conservative Party conference this week, targeting the trans and non-binary community”.
