Our Response to the EHRC Consultation

In June 2025, the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) released an “update” which proposed trans-exclusion in response to the Supreme Court ruling on sex in the Equality Act.  

Following this, they ran a six-week consultation on changes to its Code of Practice for services, public functions and associations. Over 50,000 responses were received by the EHRC – including ours.

We responded to the consultation in full, highlighting how the updated Code of Practice is unnecessarily complicated - creating confusion and placing organisations in a difficult and often contradictory legal, ethical, and practical position.

Rather than supporting the inclusion of trans people in everyday aspects of public life, it fails to offer any clear guidance on how to do so, making integration and participation more difficult.

At Gendered Intelligence, we support hundreds of organisations who are looking to be inclusive of all people who come through their services, including trans people. This guidance undermines those long-standing values of inclusion for all. 

In effect, the Code forces organisations to choose between upholding their inclusive principles and staying compliant with a legal framework that no longer reflects them. This false choice limits their ability to meet the needs of their service users.

We hope that the EHRC will listen to and act on the concerns that tens of thousands of people and organisations have raised about their proposed changes to the Code of Practice. 

Whatever happens, we won’t stop standing up for trans rights.

Download our full response to the consultation below.