There’s no easy way to manage single

Transgender people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on how they are perceived by other people according to the Times. The newspaper reports seeing a copy of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s transgender guidance that was handed to ministers in early September.

The EHRC was never going to please both sides of what has become an impassioned debate. Now it seems that they have come up with a code of practice that will please neither. The gender identity lobby will hate it because it will require transgender people to put on some sort of performance to access spaces designated for the opposite sex. Meanwhile, those who have championed the Supreme Court ruling that sex means biological sex will likely be outraged if a good enough performance will be good enough to open