Trans women can be excluded from single-sex services like changing rooms and refuges – EHRC rules

Trans women can be legally excluded from single-sex services such as changing rooms, domestic violence refuges and hospital wards to prevent trauma and enable privacy, the equalities watchdog has said.

Guidance surrounding all female spaces says it is lawful to ban someone who is born a man, if it would be less effective or impractical and the organisation can demonstrate its actions are proportionate,

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said organisations must balance the impact on all service users and demonstrate “a sufficiently good reason” for banning transgender people.

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