As stupid as it is sickening.

That was my only response this morning to reports in the Times that transgender people like me could soon be excluded from certain spaces purely based on what we look like.

It quoted leaked guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) advising ministers on how best to respond to April’s Supreme Court ruling that the definition of the protected characteristic of ‘sex’ under the Equality Act refers to sex assigned at birth.

Ever since the ruling, it has seemed like institutions have been vying to see who can interpret the ruling in the most exclusionary, invasive and cruel way possible.

The latest step in this rate to the bottom – that trans people could be excluded from single sex spaces simply on suspicion or on the basis of ‘looks’ – is a

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