Transgender people face ‘enforced segregation’ under new equality rules, warns Labour MP
New government guidance on single-sex services will force transgender individuals into ‘enforced segregation’, a Labour MP has warned, as a 40-day parliamentary deadline to block the changes expires this week. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is updating its Code of Practice following last year’s Supreme Court ruling that ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act refer only to biological sex. The draft code, laid before Parliament on May 21, tells service providers not to admit trans people into single-sex spaces aligning with their gender identity and warns of legal challenges if they do. It also allows providers to bar trans people from services matching their biological sex in