Sex Matters has been given permission to intervene in the judicial review being brought by the Good Law Project against the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).
The hearing on 12th and 13th November in London comes nearly a year after the Supreme Court heard the For Women Scotland case.
The Good Law Project is challenging the national equality watchdog’s interpretation of the Equality Act and workplace health and safety regulation, and its guidance, following the Supreme Court’s judgment, that employers and service providers should stop telling employees and service users that they can use opposite-sex facilities if they identify as trans or non-binary.
This is an important case which could provide greater confidence that the law is clear and that women should not find themselves forced to share “female” toilets, showers and changing rooms with men.
We hope that the judgment will provide greater confidence to service providers and employers and their frontline staff, to trans-identifying people and to women about what the familiar “male” and “female” signs on a door mean in terms of who is allowed in.
More at https://sex-matters.org/posts/updates/sex-matters-intervenes-on-single-sex-services-guidance/