Supreme Court gender ruling risks leaving trans people in ‘intermediate zone’ and could breach ECHR, UK warned

The government’s treatment of trans people in the UK could breach the European Convention on Human Rights, a human rights expert has warned.

Michael O’Flaherty, commissioner for human rights for the Council of Europe, said new guidance in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling on trans people must not leave them in an “intermediate zone … as not quite one gender or the other”.