Trans 'bans' Equalities chief accused of overreach

Trans rights campaigners have accused the head of the UK's equalities regulator of "overreach" after she said trans women could be banned from women's toilets, sports and hospital wards.

- Severin Carrell Caroline Davies

Kishwer Falkner, the chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), said the ruling on Wednesday by the UK supreme court that under the Equality Act "woman" only referred to biological women was "enormously consequential".

Lady Falkner told Today on BBC Radio 4 yesterday the commission was working on a fresh code of practice on women's spaces.

She said the judgment meant only biological women could use single-sex changing rooms and women's toilets, or participate in women-only sporting events and teams, or be placed in women's wards in hospitals.