In February, Wes Streeting told the Darlington nurses – eight nurses suing their trust after being forced to share a changing room with a transgender colleague – that he would wait until the Supreme Court ruling before issuing new guidance on single-sex spaces.
In a letter to them, seen by The Telegraph, he said: “Given the sensitivity of the issue, it is important to me that any changes made are credible and enduring…
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A Whitehall source said the Government’s legal department would now consider the ruling in full before publishing new guidance.
It is understood that the NPCC will consider the ruling before bringing out new guidance for the police. It follows criticism that some forces are allowing trans women – that is biological men – to strip-search vulnerable females.
EHRC ‘working at pace’ to update code of practice
Baroness Falkner of Margravine, the chairman of the EHRC, said: “We will take the outcome of this appeal into account in our ongoing work as the regulator of the Equality Act.
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“We will be working at pace to incorporate the implications of this judgment into the updated code, which supports service providers, public bodies and associations to understand their duties under the Equality Act and put them into practice.
“Where this judgment impacts upon our other advice for duty-bearers, such as our single-sex services guidance, we will review it as a matter of urgency and alert users to where guidance has been withdrawn or needs to be updated.”
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/16/transgender-rules-women-supreme-court-ruling/