Overview

• The Prime Minister directed all hospitals, universities and other public bodies to align their single-sex facility policies with the April ruling on biological sex without further delay.
• The Equality and Human Rights Commission’s interim guidance, effective immediately, stipulates that trans women should not access women’s toilets, changing rooms or wards.
• Several NHS trusts and universities have said they will hold off on policy revisions until the EHRC publishes its full code of practice later this year.
• The Church of Scotland retracted advice permitting trans women in female lavatories after acknowledging its previous guidance conflicted with the Supreme Court’s definition of “woman.”
• Scotland’s devolved government is awaiting formal EHRC advice before updating its own single-sex space policies, despite regulators saying there is no legal need to wait.