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Labour in turmoil on trans ruling as party faces pressure to rip up gender laws and ministers are STILL in muddle on protecting women-only spaces
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14624139/Labour-turmoil-trans-ruling.html
Excerpt: Labour's stance on women's rights descended into farce last night as a minister failed to back single-sex spaces and its union paymaster said it will ignore the Supreme Court judgment.
A health minister refused four times to say which changing room transgender women should use – despite the unanimous ruling that they are not legally women.
And the president of one of Britain's largest unions – which gives Labour millions of pounds a year – said the historic decision 'does not change' its pro-trans policy.
It came as Left-wing Labour MPs and the party's LGBT+ groups criticised the findings of the country's highest court, and Chancellor Rachel Reeves squirmed when asked if Keir Starmer should apologise to an MP for criticising her assertion that only women have a cervix.
Trans women 'set to be barred from female bathrooms and sports and could be asked to use disabled toilets at work' after new landmark ruling links gender to biological sex
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14622617/Trans-women-barred-female-bathrooms-sports.html
Excerpt: The Supreme Court's ruling that the definition of a woman in equality law is based on biological sex means trans women with a gender recognition certificate (GRC) can be excluded from single-sex spaces if 'proportionate'.
Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) chairwoman Baroness Kishwer Falkner has described yesterday's ruling as 'enormously consequential' and she vowed to pursue organisations which do not update their policies.
On issues such as toilets, changing rooms and sports, Baroness Falkner echoed the Government in saying the ruling had brought 'clarity' to providers on their duties under equality law around single-sex spaces.
Asked if it was now simple that trans women cannot take part in women's sport, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: 'Yes, it is.'
On changing rooms and toilets, Baroness Falkner said: 'Single-sex services like changing rooms must be based on biological sex.'
She said there is no law against organisations providing a third space such as unisex toilets and suggested trans rights organisations 'should be using their powers of advocacy to ask for those third spaces'.
The commission is expecting to lay an updated statutory code of practice before Parliament by the summer, and has said it is working 'at pace to incorporate the implications of this judgment' into the code for public bodies setting out their duties under the Equality Act.
Baroness Falkner said the commission evaluates when the law is not followed by organisations and can speak to those bodies, or 'use enforcement, compliance tools or whatever, we will be continuing to do that'.
Regarding single-sex hospital wards, she said the NHS will 'have to change' their 2019 policy, which says that trans people 'should be accommodated according to their presentation'.
While the implications of the judgment are still being worked out, a string of organisations came forward to reveal changes to their policies.
This includes the British Transport Police (BTP), which said it had adopted a new 'interim position' which will see trans people held in custody searched by an officer in line with their birth sex.
Labour in turmoil on trans ruling as party faces pressure to rip up gender laws and ministers are STILL in muddle on protecting women-only spaces
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14624139/Labour-turmoil-trans-ruling.html
Excerpt: Labour's stance on women's rights descended into farce last night as a minister failed to back single-sex spaces and its union paymaster said it will ignore the Supreme Court judgment.
A health minister refused four times to say which changing room transgender women should use – despite the unanimous ruling that they are not legally women.
And the president of one of Britain's largest unions – which gives Labour millions of pounds a year – said the historic decision 'does not change' its pro-trans policy.
It came as Left-wing Labour MPs and the party's LGBT+ groups criticised the findings of the country's highest court, and Chancellor Rachel Reeves squirmed when asked if Keir Starmer should apologise to an MP for criticising her assertion that only women have a cervix.
Trans women 'set to be barred from female bathrooms and sports and could be asked to use disabled toilets at work' after new landmark ruling links gender to biological sex
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14622617/Trans-women-barred-female-bathrooms-sports.html
Excerpt: The Supreme Court's ruling that the definition of a woman in equality law is based on biological sex means trans women with a gender recognition certificate (GRC) can be excluded from single-sex spaces if 'proportionate'.
Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) chairwoman Baroness Kishwer Falkner has described yesterday's ruling as 'enormously consequential' and she vowed to pursue organisations which do not update their policies.
On issues such as toilets, changing rooms and sports, Baroness Falkner echoed the Government in saying the ruling had brought 'clarity' to providers on their duties under equality law around single-sex spaces.
Asked if it was now simple that trans women cannot take part in women's sport, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: 'Yes, it is.'
On changing rooms and toilets, Baroness Falkner said: 'Single-sex services like changing rooms must be based on biological sex.'
She said there is no law against organisations providing a third space such as unisex toilets and suggested trans rights organisations 'should be using their powers of advocacy to ask for those third spaces'.
The commission is expecting to lay an updated statutory code of practice before Parliament by the summer, and has said it is working 'at pace to incorporate the implications of this judgment' into the code for public bodies setting out their duties under the Equality Act.
Baroness Falkner said the commission evaluates when the law is not followed by organisations and can speak to those bodies, or 'use enforcement, compliance tools or whatever, we will be continuing to do that'.
Regarding single-sex hospital wards, she said the NHS will 'have to change' their 2019 policy, which says that trans people 'should be accommodated according to their presentation'.
While the implications of the judgment are still being worked out, a string of organisations came forward to reveal changes to their policies.
This includes the British Transport Police (BTP), which said it had adopted a new 'interim position' which will see trans people held in custody searched by an officer in line with their birth sex.
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