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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Severin Carrell and Caroline Davies

Trans activists accuse UK equalities chief of ‘overreach’ for suggesting bans

Kishwer Falkner
Kishwer Falkner said the EHRC was working on a fresh code of practice on women’s spaces. Photograph: Peter Hogan/Alamy

Trans rights campaigners have accused the head of the UK’s equalities regulator of “overreach” after she said trans women could be banned from women’s toilets, sports and hospital wards.

Kishwer Falkner, the chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), said the ruling on Wednesday by the UK supreme court that under the Equality Act “woman” only referred to biological women was “enormously consequential”.

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