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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

Trans people at risk of exclusion from many UK public spaces, rights expert says

Male and female illustrations on a toilet sign
Michael O’Flaherty said ‘a zero-sum approach’ could lead to widespread exclusion of trans people. Photograph: Panther Media GmbH/Alamy

Transgender people risk being excluded from many public spaces as a result of the recent UK supreme court judgment and must be protected from discrimination, a human rights expert has said.

Michael O’Flaherty, the Council of Europe commissioner for human rights, said he had concerns about the climate for transgender people in the UK after April’s supreme court ruling that the legal definition of a woman in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex.

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