"Rules permitting trans women to share female changing facilities and swim in a women-only pond are discriminatory and unlawful, the high court has heard. The City of London Corporation is breaching equality legislation by allowing trans people to use the single-sex ponds on Hampstead Heath, according to a claim brought by the rights group Sex Matters. It is seeking permission to challenge the admission regulations."
"Public bodies are redrafting their policies on single-sex spaces in response to the supreme court's ruling in April that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex. Hampstead Heath has three swimming ponds: one for women, one for men and a mixed area. People who identify as transgender, including those who describe themselves as gender fluid or non-binary, have been allowed to swim in the ponds of their preferred gender since at least 2019."
Rules allowing trans women to use female changing facilities and swim in a women-only pond are being challenged as discriminatory and unlawful. Sex Matters alleges the City of London Corporation is breaching equality legislation by permitting trans people to use single-sex ponds on Hampstead Heath and seeks permission to contest the admission regulations. The supreme court ruled that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex, prompting public bodies to redraft single-sex space policies. The City withdrew its gender identity policy, ran a consultation with over 38,000 responses, and placed interim signs reflecting identity-based admission.
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