Transgender women in Britain fear ruling could place toilets, sports and hospitals off limits

Transgender women will be excluded from women's toilets, hospital wards and sports teams after a UK Supreme Court ruling, the head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission said Thursday, as trans groups digested a judgment that could have a broad and detrimental impact on daily life.

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While Britain's highest court said there was no clear winner in its ruling defining a woman for anti-discrimination purposes as someone born biologically female, noting that transgender people remain protected from discrimination, trans groups said the decision would undermine their rights.

Equality Commission Chairwoman Kishwer Falkner said the "enormously consequential" ruling brought clarity and would prompt her organisation to update public codes by summer to comply.