Consultation has reopened 20/05/25

Disabled women (or men!) concerned about the repurposing of disabled facilities to accommodate those who prefer not to use the facilities provided for their sex may wish to think about commenting on the example given in Section 13.3:

"13.3.12 A community group is opening a small advice centre. It decides to provide separate-sex toilets for women and men, and it repurposes the accessible toilet to be used as a mixed-sex toilet for anybody who does not wish to use the toilet for their biological sex. This is likely to be proportionate given the size and resources of the centre and takes into account the needs of all the potential service users."

How on earth does this take into account the needs of disabled service users?!

I've just skimmed it, too. And they keep saying 'gender' affected areas.

The consultation consists of the EHRC publishing the new "Code of practice for services, public functions and associations" & inviting comments. I have skimmed through it & they repeat over & over that following the Supreme Court ruling biological men are excluded from female single sex spaces & services.
It looks like a done deal. The TRAs will hate it but I cannot see how they will persuade the EHRC to change the code of practice at all

'Updated legal definition of sex

We have updated the legal definition of sex throughout the code of practice. Our previous definition explained that:
‘Legal sex is the sex that was recorded at your birth or the sex you have acquired by obtaining a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC).’
Following the UK Supreme Court ruling in For Women Scotland, this definition is no longer accurate, because a GRC does not change your legal sex for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010. We have therefore updated this definition throughout the code to be:
'Legal sex is the sex that was recorded at your birth.'
Please go to the consultation page to read about this change. '

Thank you! Have been waiting for this…

Thanks for this. Off to have a look.