US EditionHigh 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the UK Supreme Court's April 2025 ruling, urged restrictions on trans people using some single-sex facilities and was withdrawn six months later amid criticism.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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