High Court Judgement in Good Law Project vs EHRC

What's going on?

The Good Law Project took the Equalities and Human Rights Commission to court last year over their interim statement. The Good Law Project said that this statement was unlawful because it amounted to a blanket ban on trans inclusion in single-sex spaces like toilets - a 'bathroom ban.

The Court ruled that the EHRC's statement was not unlawful, but that a blanket exclusion of trans people would be unlawful.

What does it mean?

Trans people must not be excluded from single-sex spaces as standard or forced to use spaces based on their sex at birth. The law does not require a bathroom ban.

Facilities like toilets and services like refuges can be designated for women or men and include trans people without having to include everyone of that birth sex. For example, women's facilities that include trans women do not have to be called unisex or include men.

However, workplaces may be required to exclude trans people from single-sex toilets and changing facilities.

What is GI doing?

We're writing to the government to urge them to bring workplace regulations in line with the Equality Act and end this ridiculous double standard.

We're also asking the Minister for Women and Equalities to finally send back the hostile and exclusionary first draft of the new EHRC Code of Practice so that a workable and lawful version can be written.

We'll be reaching out to businesses and employers as we go forward to help them be as trans-inclusive as possible.

And we'll be sharing love and solidarity with our communities - places where everyone belongs.