Labour MPs doubt EHRC guidance on court’s biological sex ruling is workable

The EHRC guidance raises issues affecting trans people’s access places such as hospital wards, changing rooms and public toilets. Photograph: IrKiev/Getty Images/iStockphoto

A number of Labour MPs are increasingly doubtful that the guidance on how organisations should implement the supreme court ruling on sex as it applies in the Equality Act is workable in the real world, with some predicting it will unleash a wave of competing legal claims.

A total of 135 MPs, 69 of them from Labour, have signed a Commons motion calling for the code of practice drafted by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, approved last month, to be blocked, primarily because of worries about its impact on transgender people.