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

Scottish government ‘firmly’ backs single-sex spaces amid equality watchdog warning

The social justice secretary, Shirley-Anne Somerville.
The social justice secretary, Shirley-Anne Somerville, said: ‘This government stands firmly behind the separate and single-sex exemptions provided in the 2010 act.’ Photograph: Fraser Bremner/Scottish Daily Mail/PA

The Scottish government “stands firmly behind” the provision of single-sex spaces, a minister has said after the UK equality watchdog addressed issues raised by an employment tribunal brought by a nurse who objected to sharing a women’s changing room with a transgender doctor.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) requested a meeting with Holyrood’s health secretary as well as writing directly to Fife health board, which is disputing the claim, to “remind” management of their obligations under the 2010 Equality Act.

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