The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) plans to submit new guidance banning trans women from single-sex public spaces such as toilets and changing rooms. This decision follows a unanimous ruling by the UK Supreme Court that deemed trans women are not legally recognized as women under the Equality Act. The guidance will affect any organization providing public services, which includes schools, shops, and hospitals. Trans rights advocates criticize this guidance for being discriminatory, prompting legal challenges against it.
Transgender women will be banned from single-sex public spaces under new guidance to be published by the UK's equalities watchdog. The guidance will mean trans women will be banned from spaces such as women's toilets and changing rooms. It will apply to any organisation that provides a service to the public, including schools, shops, hospitals, prisons, leisure centres and government departments.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is set to submit its statutory guidance to ministers this month in response to the UK Supreme Court's unanimous ruling that trans women are not legally women under the Equality Act.
The new guidance appears to be similar to its interim guidance issued in the wake of the ruling, which has been criticised by trans rights campaigners as discriminatory and has seen legal challenges launched against it.
Private organisations or charities will also be subject to the guidance if they provide a service to the public.
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