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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Libby Brooks

LGBTQ+ charities warn of ‘genuine crisis’ for trans people after UK ruling

A person in a crowd holding up a sign reading 'Trans rights are human rights'
The supreme court ruling has sparked large protests in support of the trans community. Photograph: James Willoughby/SOPA Images/Rex/Shutterstock

Fourteen national LGBTQ+ charities have written to Keir Starmer seeking an urgent meeting to discuss what they describe as “a genuine crisis for the rights, dignity and inclusion of trans people in the UK” after the supreme court’s ruling on biological sex.

The UK supreme court ruled last month that the terms “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 referred only to “a biological woman” and to “biological sex”, with subsequent advice from the equality watchdog amounting to a blanket ban on trans people using toilets and other services of the gender they identify as.

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