The head of Britain’s equality watchdog has rejected claims that guidance protecting single-sex services undermines transgender rights, insisting that women’s needs for privacy, dignity, and safety must also be respected.
Mary-Ann Stephenson, chairwoman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), said criticism of its updated Code of Practice had wrongly suggested that transgender people had lost their legal protections or would be banned from public spaces.
Writing in The Times in October, she said such claims were inaccurate and had increased distress among transgender people.
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