The UK’s top equality watchdog is allegedly planning to suggest that trans people be banned from all ‘single-sex’ public spaces, according to media reports published today (8 August).

A finalised version of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) guidance on gendered services, expected to be published later this month, will allegedly urge service providers to ban trans people from single-sex facilities and groups that relate to their gender identity.

Unconfirmed reports from The Times suggest that proposed changes to the guidance, issued as part of a public consultation in April, which ban trans people from using the correct facilities, including toilets and changing rooms, will not be changed.

The EHRC has not confirmed the Times’ report, and a finalised version of the guidan

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