MPs back new legal action to stop EHRC trans guidance in force today

The guidance rules that single-sex spaces must be used on the basis of biological sex (Picture: EPA) A legal challenge has been launched against the new guidance on single-sex spaces on the same day it came into effect. The Good Law Project wants to block the new code of practice decided by the equalities regulator, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). Andy Burnham’s own Labour MPs are backing the legal challenge, which argues the new guidelines are transphobic and unlawful, Metro can reveal. The new code of practice has confirmed that a service must be used on the basis of biological sex in order for it to be classed as single-sex under the Equality Act. This means single-sex toilets, changing rooms, hospital wards and refuges must be used based on a person’s birth sex, not th