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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Millie Cooke

NHS to be pursued if gender policies on single-sex wards don’t change, warns equalities watchdog

The NHS will be pursued if it does not follow new guidance on gender and single-sex spaces, the equalities watchdog has warned in the wake of the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling that transgender women are not legally women.

The judgment, which stated that the definition of a woman in equality law is based on biological sex, means trans women with a gender recognition certificate (GRC) can be excluded from single-sex spaces if doing so is deemed “proportionate”.

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