Abstract
Abstract This chapter examines the evolution of the right to equality in relation to sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, and age in the UK (including the EU and ECHR), US, Canada, India, and South Africa, demonstrating the ways in which anti-discrimination law responds to the social and historical context in which it is embedded. For all of these, a key first step has been to acknowledge the role of society in obscuring these identities and to recognize and conceptualize the rights-bearers as full participants in society. Equality laws must then be shaped to further the right to equality on all four dimensions of substantive equality.
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