The High Court has dismissed a challenge to the UK government’s interim guidance on ‘trans’ issues—specifically on the relationship between an individual’s biological sex and access to same-sex facilities.
Self-beclowning activists The Good Law Project (GLP) sought to overturn the official guidance that Britain’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)—the public body tasked to promote and enforce equality laws in Great Britain—provided to employers on workplace toilet provision, in the light of the historic Supreme Court ruling that sex in equalities law is primarily a ‘biological’ concept, displacing ‘gender identity’ as a protected category.
Subsequently begging for funds to appeal the ruling, the GLP claimed
for workplace toilets, the decision could mean that many trans people are excluded, and forced to use third spaces. We believe this is wrong, and that it is unacceptable. It reduces trans people to a third sex and gives little or no weight to the harm done to trans people by excluding them.
However, it brought the case without the GLP being a valid claimant—while contesting guidance that the EHRC has since moved on from and partly updated.
Policy decisions to support the Supreme Court ‘women are women’ ruling are emerging at a sluggish pace, with both the Scottish government and the British tax office still attempting to defy the law.
