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High Court dismisses challenge to single-sex toilet guidance
High Court rejects Good Law Project's challenge, ruling EHRC guidance does not legally require exclusion of trans people from single-sex facilities.
- On Friday, February 13, 2026, the UK High Court ruled the Equality and Human Rights Commission's interim guidance reading was incorrect and dismissed the Good Law Project's challenge for lack of standing.
- The EHRC's April interim update, published shortly after the UK Supreme Court's April 2025 ruling, urged restrictions on trans people using some single-sex facilities and was withdrawn six months later amid criticism.
- Workplaces must provide sufficient single-sex facilities, while public-facing services are not required to be single-sex; Mr Justice Swift said statutory provisions set a legal `floor` not a `ceiling` and called it `fanciful` to regulate every possibility.
- EHRC chair Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson welcomed the ruling and said it will consider further legal proceedings, while the Good Law Project will appeal and warned the code risks forcibly `outing` trans people.
- If approved, the EHRC's code of practice would become legally binding 40 days after being laid, with ministers planning to publish it soon while the claimants may seek permission to appeal.
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High Court rules it's discriminatory to enforce trans bathroom ban in public spaces
The UK High Court has decided that the interpretation of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) interim guidance on a bathroom ban for trans people is incorrect. However, as has always been the case with this deeply transphobic piece of legislation, it is extremely difficult to parse because it is, at its core, nonsensical. The Good Law Project challenged the EHRC’s interim guidance in the High Court. The EHRC interpreted the Supreme …
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