"In a private letter - seen by The Guardian - to business secretary Peter Kyle, Labour MPs detailed how they had been contacted by large numbers of businesses that are deeply concerned about the implications of the guidance, including the huge potential cost it would take to bring their companies in-line with it."
"The interim guidance recommended organisations and service providers should bar trans men and women from single-sex services and spaces, such as changing rooms and toilets, which align with their gender, but added in "some circumstances" trans people could also be barred from spaces based on "biological sex"."
"The interim guidance was criticised by trans, wider LGBTQ+ and human rights organisations, with the commissioner for human rights for the Council of Europe, Michael O'Flaherty, outlining in a letter that the UK's "zero-sum approach" to trans rights would lead to a "widespread exclusion of trans people from many public spaces"."
Dozens of backbench Labour MPs wrote to the government warning that upcoming EHRC guidance on single-sex spaces would cause deep problems for businesses across the UK. MPs reported being contacted by large numbers of businesses concerned about the guidance's implications and the huge potential costs of compliance. The UK Supreme Court ruled in April in For Women Scotland vs Scottish Ministers that 'sex' in the 2010 Equality Act means biological sex only. The EHRC published interim guidance recommending organisations bar trans men and women from single-sex services aligned with their gender while allowing exclusion in some circumstances based on biological sex. Human rights and LGBTQ+ organisations criticised the guidance and warned it could lead to widespread exclusion of trans people from many public spaces.
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