Trans women must be barred from female toilets, changing facilities and sports teams, new official guidance is to state.
Bridget Phillipson is expected to confirm on Thursday that official guidance will state what businesses and public bodies must do under the law to protect single-sex spaces.
The guidance follows last year’s Supreme Court judgment that trans women, who were born male, are not legally women for the purposes of the Equality Act.
If they didn’t like it when they heard the judgement, the government could have decided to change the law. They can’t say “it was the Supreme Court, our hands are tied”; they’re the government, and they have a majority. There was nothing in the King’s Speech, so they have chosen to keep it as it is. This is the government’s transphobia, not the Supreme Court’s.