Trans women should be barred from public toilets, equality watchdog

Trans women are defined as biologically being male under the court’s ruling (Picture: Shutterstock/baona)

Trans women should be barred from public toilets,the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has recommended.

It came as it released interim guidance yesterday on how organisations should interpret last week’s Supreme Court’s ruling on transgender people.

The court’s judges ruled that the terms ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the 2010 Equality Act ‘refer to a biological woman and biological sex’.

The new guidance states that in places like hospitals,shops and restaurants,‘trans women (biological men) should not be permitted to use the women’s facilities’.

It also says that trans people should not be left without any facilities to use.

The interim guidance has been celebrated and criticised in equal measure.