High Court Dismisses Challenge To Single-sex Toilet Guidance

A High Court judge has dismissed a ineligible situation to nan equality watchdog's guidance connected which nationalist aliases workplace toilets and changing rooms transgender group should use.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) issued interim guidance past April and withdrew it six months later. It said azygous activity spaces, specified arsenic toilets and changing rooms, should only beryllium utilized by group of nan aforesaid biologic sex.

It said that a trans woman, a biologic antheral who identifies arsenic a woman, would beryllium expected to usage a gender-neutral toilet aliases nan men's toilets, not those for women.

Campaigners claimed nan guidance for employers, specified arsenic hospitals, shops and restaurants, was "legally flawed" and "overly simplistic."

The judge, Mr Justice Swift, refused nan exertion by run group, nan Good Law Project (GLP), for a judicial review, but asked for submissions from each parties connected whether an entreaty should beryllium allowed.

The EHRC's now withdrawn guidance was issued soon aft nan Supreme Court ruled successful April 2025 that nether nan 2010 Equality Act, nan words "woman" and "sex" referred to a biologic female and biologic sex.

Its afloat guidance, aliases codification of practice, is presently being considered by nan government.