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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Rebecca Whittaker

What new single-sex space laws mean for schools, hospitals and trans people

Single-sex toilets, changing rooms and hospital wards must now be used based on a person’s sex at birth and not the gender they identify as, under new guidance that comes into force today.

The changes are being implemented more than a year after a landmark Supreme Court ruling on biological sex, conclude that transgender women are not legally women under the Equality Act.

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