A Liberal Democrat MP perfectly explained in parliament why the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) leaked draft single-space guidance is “unworkable” in practice.

The draft update to the human rights watchdog’s Code of Practice – which was put together following April’s controversial FWS v Scottish Ministers Supreme Court ruling that decided the legal definition of the protected characteristic of ‘sex’ does not include trans people – was submitted to equalities minister Bridget Phillipson in September.

Immediately following the court verdict, the EHRC published interim guidance which outlined clauses recommending businesses, organisations and service providers to ban trans women from female facilities and trans men from male facilities, alongside stating in “some circumstances

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