Overview

• The guidance requires separate toilets and changing rooms for boys and girls, applied by biological sex.
• Schools may provide gender-neutral facilities for trans pupils and, where appropriate, access to staff or disabled toilets.
• Ministers issued the update after an April Court of Session decision on a Borders school and a UK Supreme Court judgment defining sex in equality law as biological.
• The document advises steps to reduce outing risks, including access outside usual breaktimes, and says forcing uniforms that conflict with a pupil’s gender identity may be discriminatory.
• Scottish Conservatives condemned the approach as confusing, For Women Scotland welcomed recognition of single-sex provision, and Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth said implementation work is continuing.