Last month, in apparent defiance of the Supreme Court, the Council of the London Mathematical Society published a new Statement of Commitment to Trans Inclusion which states: ‘The LMS provides gender-neutral toilets and supports the use of facilities that align with a person’s affirmed identity.’

Many organisations have been slow to update their policies to reflect the Supreme Court’s April judgement that, for the purposes of the Equality Act, sex means biological sex. However, the LMS have gone one further. They have chosen to write their first ever trans policy after the judgement and this policy appears to openly flout the Court’s ruling. Because the meaning of their statement isn’t clear, I went to the LMS building to take a look: they do have single-sex female toilets, but I didn’t u

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