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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Ellie Ng

UCU calls for staff rights to use facilities matching gender identities

UCU general secretary Jo Grady said the union has committed to ‘stand shoulder to shoulder with the trans community’ (Liam McBurney/PA) - (PA Archive)

The union representing staff at universities has called on employers to support the right for workers to use gendered facilities which match gender identities, as its congress voted to “stand shoulder to shoulder with the trans community”.

It follows the Supreme Court ruling last month that the words “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex.

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