It was issued today and will be the statutory guidance (if passed by Parliament) and will in effect inform the view about enforcement of the sex provisions of the equality act
The Minister for Women and Equalities made no overall submission on whether the Claimants’ claim should succeed or fail, but did make submissions on this point. She submitted that if single-sex lavatories were provided they could continue to be a single sex-service for the purpose of the provisions in Schedule 3 to EA 2010 notwithstanding what she referred to as “derogations” – i.e., situations where (taking lavatories as the example) a man used the female lavatory. The examples relied on were of a piece with those the Claimants relied on. Based on those examples the Minister submitted that a trans-inclusive lavatory (as above, see paragraph 38) could continue to have the protection of one or both of the exceptions at paragraph 26 and 27 of Schedule 3 to the EA 2010 as a single-sex provision.
Source?
https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/equality/equality-act-2010/codes-practice/services-public-functions-and-associations-code-0
Still needs to be approved by Parliament but it is likely to pass
Oh so there is an update? Whats new? That ss is old stuff
It was issued today and will be the statutory guidance (if passed by Parliament) and will in effect inform the view about enforcement of the sex provisions of the equality act
Ok yeah but what’s changed since the draft from a while ago
Not too much (it’s basically just a larger version of it), but they should have changed it to be in line with the odd good law ruling about it
Oh wait nvm this is just the sc ruling this has nothing to do with toilets
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It’s actually the guidance issued after court judgements that aren’t as misleading as this and this will in effect act as a bathroom ban if passed
Where’s the actual bathroom ban? Bathrooms were never protected spaces so what you showed in that screenshot doesn’t apply to them
They could be counted as single sex spaces and therefore this guidance could be seen as applying to them
This is written where? If they could do this that would’ve been a thing ages ago
Bathroom have been refered to as single sex in court cases before for exmaple see - https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/good-law-project-EHRC-AC-2025-1953-judgment-13Feb26.pdf
Where in that case it was said
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Yeau