Does new single-sex space guidance bring clarity or confusion?

New guidance has come into force on who can use single sex spaces like changing rooms, toilets and refuges - following a Supreme Court ruling last year.

Public single-sex spaces such as toilets, changing rooms and rape crisis centres are now organised by sex assigned at birth as of today (5 August) in England, Scotland and Wales.  The government guidance, which was first published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) in June, says that transgender people

GUIDANCE on use of toilets and changing rooms as single-sex spaces comes into force on Wednesday, almost a year-and-a-half after the landmark Supreme Court ruling on biological sex

The code covers spaces open to the public, such as toilets and changing rooms in England, Wales and Scotland.

Nearly 13,000 toilets and more than 5,000 changing rooms may need changing under the Supreme Court ruling

Lambeth and Waltham Forest councils have already signaled they will resist new guidance on single-sex spaces over risk it leaves 'trans people open to discrimination'