The position the UK now is in is driven by two big basic lies. The first is that the Equality Act was actually an act which excluded trans people from single-sex services and spaces aligned to their lived in gender but that the courts, Parliament or the EHRC, had somehow not noticed this until last year. The second lie is that trans people are always identifiable, and when they aren’t, they’re intentionally deceptive.

A very good article. It outlines well why the guidance of the EHRC is truly nonsense.

I also like how it points out the the EHRC's job is to push back against laws that endanger human rights, however they have been doing the exact opposite.

The EHRC extrapolates the (terrible) Supreme Court ruling from "the Equality Act means biological sex when it says sex" (which is wrong, btw, as the article points out, the writers of the act will tell you that) to "we should exclude trans people from all single sex spaces".

This is clearly an ideological cruscade, and does not pass any sort of reasonable impact assessment.

If you look a little deeper (not in this article), you will find out that the EHRC helped engineer the Supreme Court ruling, and has been run by transphobes since around 2020. Since 2020, they do not have notes for a single consultation with trans rights groups, but have 100s for anti-trans hate groups. Source? FOI requests (which they sometimes delay and try to refuse).