US EditionCampaigners Take Step in Legal Action over Toilet Guidance After Gender Ruling
- The Good Law Project, alongside three individuals, has launched legal proceedings against the UK's Equalities watchdog and the Equalities Minister, Bridget Phillipson, challenging interim guidelines on transgender access to toilet facilities.
- This action follows the UK Supreme Court's unanimous April ruling that defined 'sex' in the Equality Act 2010 as biological sex, influencing the guidance issued by the EHRC about toilet access.
- The claimants argue the EHRC guidance unlawfully excludes trans people from using toilets aligning with their acquired gender and breaches the UK's human rights obligations.
- Jolyon Maugham KC stated the guidance imposes humiliating conditions on trans people, forcing them to use incorrect facilities and disclose private gender information, calling the guidance 'disgraceful and unlawful.'
- The legal challenge seeks a High Court declaration that the UK breaches human rights law if the guidance stands, while the EHRC plans a public consultation to finalize a code reflecting the Supreme Court ruling by June.
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Equalities watchdog faces legal action over trans rules
Oh dear. Now legal action has been launched against the UK’s equalities watchdog – alleging that guidance around transgender people and toilet facilities breaches human rights law. Jolyon Maugham’s Good Law Project has today announced it has instructed a team of lawyers in a case against the Equality and Human Rights Commission and Labour’s equalities
TUV Chair Warns of Trans Lobby Influence in Local Government
TUV party chairman Cusher Councillor Keith Ratcliffe said: “Following the Supreme Court’s judgment on the legal definition of a woman, I raised concerns about the use of council facilities, particularly in relation to the upcoming Lurgan Pride event. “Lurgan Pride have made no secret of their opposition to the Supreme Court’s ruling. In light of this, I have asked Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council to seek assurances that those usin…
The trans judge who refuses to comply and is taking the UK to the European Court of Human Rights
TL;DR: Advocacy group The Good Law Project and a group of transgender and intersex people are suing the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and the Minister for Women and Equalities. They’re bringing a judicial review that will challenge the regulator’s stance on segregating Trans+ people from some single-sex spaces.A number of trans and intersex people are suing the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), and the Minister for Women…
Equality and Human Rights Commission and Equalities Minister, Bridget Phillipson, face legal challenge over gender guidance
Good Law Project and a number of trans and intersex individuals have today (16 May) begun a legal challenge to the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) ‘Interim Update’ following the For Women Scotland Supreme Court ruling. The claimants have sent a formal letter under the Pre Action Protocol for Judicial Review, which asks for a response […]
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