Oh dear. Now legal action has been launched against the UK’s equalities watchdog – alleging that guidance around transgender people and toilet facilities breaches human rights law. Jolyon Maugham’s Good Law Project has today announced it has instructed a team of lawyers in a case against the Equality and Human Rights Commission and Labour’s equalities minister Bridget Phillipson. Good heavens…
It comes after the ruling by the Supreme Court last month that backed the biological definition of a woman, concluding that ‘sex’ in the Equality Act referred to biological sex. The equalities watchdog insisted the ruling meant that transwomen should be prohibited from using female toilets and changing facilities – but despite the unanimous judgment coming from the highest court in the land, Maugham still isn’t happy. ‘Along either with a man and a woman who are trans and someone who is intersex,’ he said, ‘we are suing the EHRC and the equalities minister over the disgraceful and unlawful EHRC guidance.’
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