"Back in 2019, the CoLC formally acknowledged trans people's right to swim in the single-sex ponds through a policy ensuring "our public services do not discriminate against trans people" and, following this, in 2024 the policy was reaffirmed by members of the Kenwood Ladies' Pond Association (KLPA) voting at its 2024 annual general meeting to reject a policy that would have redefined the word woman to mean "only those born female in sex"."
"Following the UK Supreme Court decision in April - which ruled the legal definition of "sex" and "woman" in the 2010 Equality Act refer to "biological sex" and "biological women" only and specifically exclude trans people - and subsequent interim single-sex spaces guidance published Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), the gender-critical group Sex Matters vowed to take legal action against the CoCL if they did not bar trans swimmers from the ladies' and men's ponds."
Kenwood Ladies', Highgate Men's, and Hampstead Mixed ponds on Hampstead Heath are run by the City of London Corporation (CoLC). The ponds have been trans-inclusive since opening and the CoLC adopted a 2019 policy ensuring public services do not discriminate against trans people. In 2024 the Kenwood Ladies' Pond Association reaffirmed that policy, rejecting a proposed redefinition of woman to mean only those born female. After a UK Supreme Court ruling defined "sex" and "woman" in the Equality Act as biological and excluded trans people, the gender-critical group Sex Matters vowed legal action unless trans swimmers were barred.
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