Overview

• The EHRC’s interim guidance, issued in June, would bar trans people from using gendered facilities matching their identity in settings from hospitals to sports venues based on biological sex
• Hundreds of trans activists and over 1,400 registered participants held a mass lobby of MPs in Westminster on June 25, marking the largest LGBT+ mass lobby since the 1980s
• Campaigners, including Trans+ Solidarity Alliance founder Jude Guaitamacchi, warn the draft rules could force businesses to demand birth certificates and leave trans individuals without safe access to public amenities
• Celebrity supporters such as Kate Nash, Bimini Bon Boulash and Daniel Lismore joined protesters, decrying the guidelines as a human rights violation and a harmful diversion from broader social issues
• A government spokesperson affirmed support for protecting single-sex spaces based on biological sex while the EHRC must finalise its guidance by the close of consultation on June 30