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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

EHRC drops interim trans advice and urges ministers to act fast to approve its guidance

Bridget Phillipson outside 10 Downing Street
Bridget Phillipson is said to be wary of making a decision while she is contesting for the Labour deputy leadership. Photograph: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing/Getty Images

The equalities watchdog has withdrawn interim advice on how institutions should respond to the supreme court ruling on transgender rights, which some campaign groups said could effectively exclude trans people from many public spaces.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said the advice, published in April, shortly after that month’s supreme court ruling that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex only, had been taken down from its website.

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