The UK Security Industry Authority trans customer guidelines

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These guidelines are on the GOV.UK website.

It's a short item but includes the following:

Searches:
Allow the customer to choose whether they want to be searched by a male or female member of staff. It is never acceptable to search someone to find out their gender.

Toilets:
If a trans person says that a particular toilet is appropriate for them, then that is the appropriate toilet for them.
It is not a trans person’s fault if other people object to them using the toilet they feel is appropriate for them.
A trans person is more likely to be a victim of violence or sexual assault. They are particularly vulnerable to attack and victimisation in toilets.

The article gives a description of trans/transgender, gender identity and non-binary.

It has a statement about the Equality Act 2010:
It is unlawful to refuse a service, or provide a worse standard of service, because a person is intending to undergo, are undergoing, or have undergone gender reassignment. For example, this means that stopping a trans person from using the toilet they feel is appropriate to them may create a risk of legal action being taken against the pub, club or venue you work at.

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/929624/sia-ds-trans-guide.pdf

These guidelines mean a female security guard must search a male if he states his trans. It also means a security guard cannot ask a male to leave the women's toilets if anyone complains a male is there if he states he is trans.

This cannot be correct with regard to the EA 2010.

That's an old document, 2018, and it was discussed at the time.

I seem to recall reading on here just the other day that it had recently been reworked?

I just did a search on the gov.uk website and that's the document I found. Do you know where the updated guidance might be?

Sorry, I just read something about it in passing, possibly in connection to that non-binary at Heaven nightclub.

Maybe check the thread(s) for that?

Posting on here partly to bump this thread to see if someone else knows...

Thank you. Twitter is where I saw this policy being shared. I did my own search on the gov.uk website and found the document which has not been updated.