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Hackney mayor says trans women can continue using women’s toilets despite EHRC 'guidance' (www.scenemag.co.uk)
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Hackney’s Green Party mayor Zoë Garbett has said trans women will continue to be able to use women’s toilets and other council facilities in the borough, despite new Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) 'guidance' stating that single-sex spaces should be organised according to biological sex.

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[–] 4 points 3 days ago (1 child)

Although I like this, it is currently against the law and they're going to get drowned in litigation from the TERF lobby.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 days ago* (2 children)

    It’s a guidance not a law. As such if taken to court a judge must take it into account, but it does not automatically mean it is a clear case of breaking the law. Actual ruling and case law are going to be what defines how much teeth it has.

    I’m glad to see it being challenged like this because it could very well set the precedence that undoes it all.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago

    Exactly. Its been one of the most depressing things of the past year or so to see some very specific legal guidance (essentially that it is allowable to have strict single sex spaces excluding trans people if it is essential to achieve certain aims (like women's refuges)) being used to enact sweeping bans by governments and companies out of reflexive ass covering.

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