The U.K. Equality and Human Rights Commission issued updated guidance for trans people and public single-sex spaces. The guidance is described as effectively functioning as a bathroom ban. Trans people are barred from using single-sex spaces consistent with their gender. The guidance also allows people to interrogate users about their “biological sex.” The guidance is framed as softened compared with interim policies, but it still restricts access. The guidance follows a U.K. Supreme Court ruling under the 2010 Equality Act that defines “woman” by sex assigned at birth. The guidance’s publication was delayed amid reported political infighting, including accusations involving the minister for women and equalities, Bridget Phillipson.
"The U.K.'s Equality and Human Rights Commission has released updated guidance for trans people and public single-sex spaces, which amounts to a bathroom ban. While the guidance has been softened compared to interim policies, it still bars trans people from using single-sex spaces consistent with their gender and allows for people to interrogate users about their "biological sex.""
""The law here is a mess, and clearly many businesses will just go gender neutral to avoid the headache, but the government risks pushing trans people yet further out of public life," said Alexandra Parmar-Yee, director of the Trans+ Solidarity Alliance (TSA). "This guidance is going to be a Section 28 moment for this Labour government, defining their legacy on LGBTQ+ rights. It's the sort of trans rights policy we would expect from Trump's America, and is worryingly similar to a U.S. bathroom ban condemned by the U.K. foreign office in 2016.""
"The new EHRC guidance comes over a year since the United Kingdom's Supreme Court ruled that, for the purposes of the 2010 Equality Act, a trans woman is not a woman, and "woman" is defined by sex assigned at birth. In the wake of that ruling, the EHRC put out much-criticized interim guidance."
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