Trans people banned from toilets of gender they identify with, says UK minister

EHRC advice says if a trans person uses a toilet aligned with their chosen gender, the facilities ‘are no longer single-sex’. Photograph: D Burke/Alamy

A UK government minister has said trans people are now banned from using toilets of the gender they identify as, amid warnings about the “incredibly dangerous” consequences of such a blanket prohibition.

The UK supreme court ruled earlier this month that the terms “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act referred only to a biological woman and to biological sex.