""As Minister for Women and Equalities, I set out the policies responding to the Supreme Court judgement. The Supreme Court were clear that, uh, for the purposes of the Equality Act, sex is biological sex. What's now happening is the Equality and Human Rights Commission have, uh, have consulted on a code of practice to me as the minister. I'll then be going through that line by line to make sure we get that right. It's a 300-page document so it will take some time.""
""You could have a situation where trans women can't use the men or the women's bathroom. I mean that seems kind of preposterous, right?""
Education secretary Bridget Phillipson was unable to give a clear position on which toilets trans women should use after a Supreme Court ruling. The Supreme Court ruled in FWS v Scottish Ministers that, for the 2010 Equality Act, sex means biological sex. The Equality and Human Rights Commission consulted on a 300-page code of practice that could restrict trans access to single-sex services. Interim EHRC guidance briefly included a clause that would bar trans women from both men's and women's toilets; that guidance has been repealed. Phillipson said she will review the EHRC code line by line before deciding policy. The full practical impact remains unclear.
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