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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Millie Cooke

Equalities watchdog under pressure to scrap new guidance on trans people using single sex spaces

The equalities watchdog is under pressure to withdraw its interim guidance on single-sex spaces in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling on gender, after campaigners dubbed it a “bigoted attempt to segregate trans people in public spaces”.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has been accused of breaching trans peoples’ rights, with campaigners saying it not only forces them into inappropriate spaces but it also risks outing them.

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