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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent

Impasse over EHRC single-sex spaces guidance ‘distracting from other issues’

Protesters carry banner with the words: 'We know what a woman is'
Campaigners gather at the Scottish parliament in September to urge the Scottish government to implement the supreme court ruling on gender. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

The ongoing impasse over guidance from the UK’s human rights watchdog on access to single-sex spaces is distracting from other pressing issues, including the rise of the far right, insiders have told the Guardian.

Some members of staff at the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) are described as “desperate for regime change” ahead of the new chair, Mary-Ann Stephenson, taking up her post in December.

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