More than 650 organisations, from high-profile names like Ben & Jerry's and Lush Cosmetics to hundreds of independent pubs and cafés, have written to the UK government warning that new draft guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) on single-sex spaces is 'unworkable' and would 'cause significant economic harm.'
The plea comes at a time when the trans community in the UK was already coping with the Supreme Court's April 2025 ruling that the legal definition of 'woman' under the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex, not gender identity.
