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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Millie Cooke

New bathroom guidance for trans people ‘the kind of policy you’d see in Trump’s America’, campaigners say

The government has been accused of mimicking Donald Trump’s America after newly-published guidance confirmed single-sex services must be on the basis of biological sex, sparking concerns that trans people will be pushed out of public life.

The Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) published its updated code of practice more than a year after a landmark Supreme Court ruling in April 2025 which said the words “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex.

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