UK’s first trans judge appeals to European court of human rights over supreme court ruling

Victoria McCloud: ‘The impacts of all of this have not been dealt with.’ Photograph: Andrew Mason

Britain’s first transgender judge is taking the UK to the European court of human rights over the supreme court’s ruling on biological sex.

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, with subsequent guidance from the equality watchdog amounting to a blanket ban on trans people using toilets and other services of the gender they identify as.