{"id":1430354,"date":"2025-04-26T12:21:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T11:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gaytimes.com\/?p=1430354"},"modified":"2025-04-26T12:24:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T11:24:30","slug":"ehrc-interim-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaytimes.com\/justice\/ehrc-interim-guidance\/","title":{"rendered":"EHRC says trans people shouldn\u2019t be included in gay or lesbian spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UK\u2019s Equalities and Human Rights Commission has issued bizarre interim guidance on the implementation of the UK Supreme Court ruling. Here’s what you can do to help.<\/span><\/p>\n

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TW: transphobia, transphobic terms used when quoting official documents.\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

On 15 April, in a devastating blow to trans rights, the UK Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex alone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We are already seeing the negative effects come into play: last night, the EHRC (the Equalities and Human Rights Commission) issued disappointing interim guidance on how organisations should interpret the Supreme Court ruling.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The guidance states that, in workplaces and services open to the public, trans women should not be allowed to use women\u2019s toilets and trans men should not be allowed to use men\u2019s toilets. It also adds that, in some cases, trans women can be blocked from men\u2019s toilets and trans men from women\u2019s toilets.<\/span><\/p>\n

While advocating for the exclusion of trans people from all single-sex toilets, the guidance states that \u201cwhere possible\u201d mixed-sex toilets, washing or changing facilities should be available in addition to single-sex facilities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The guidance also ignores \u2013 or, more accurately, wilfully undermines \u2013 the fact that trans men can be bi or gay and trans women can be bi or lesbians.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It advocates for the exclusion of trans people from gay and lesbian spaces, stating that, for associations of 25 or more people: \u201cA women-only or lesbian-only association should not admit trans women (biological men), and a men-only or gay men-only association should not admit trans men (biological women).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

At a school level, it states: \u201cPupils who identify as trans girls (biological boys) should not be permitted to use the girls’ toilet or changing facilities, and pupils who identify as trans boys (biological girls) should not be permitted to use the boys’ toilet or changing facilities. Suitable alternative provisions may be required.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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