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Trans people should be given alternative facilities to use, watchdog says

Equality watchdog issues interim guidance on single-sex spaces21 minutes agoDamian GrammaticasPolitical correspondentGetty ImagesThe Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has released interim...

Equality watchdog issues interim guidance on single-sex spaces

Equality watchdog issues interim guidance on single-sex spaces3 hours agoDamian GrammaticasPolitical correspondentGetty ImagesThe Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has released interim...

Trans women expected to be excluded from all-women candidate lists

Trans women expected to be excluded from all-women candidate lists1 hour agoHelen CattPolitical correspondentGetty ImagesPolitical parties are expected to be told that trans women cannot be on...

Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says

Toilet use based on biological sex, says Phillipson58 minutes agoAleks PhillipsBBC NewsTrans women should use toilets according to their biological sex, the equalities minister has said.In response...

Labour MPs' plot to challenge 'catastrophic' trans ruling uncovered in leaked messages

Leaked WhatsApp messages have shown a division within Labour over views on the controversial ruling by the Supreme Court on the definition of the word woman. Last week, judges in the Supreme Court...

The Supreme Court ruling gives clarity - but now comes the difficult part

The Supreme Court ruling gives clarity - but now comes the difficult part7 hours agoAlison HoltSocial affairs editorJames MelleyBBC"A victory for common sense" or "devastating" –  the contrasting...

JK Rowling clashes with trans activist as she urges Keir Starmer to break silence

JK Rowling has clashed with a trans activist and urged Sir Keir Starmer to break his silence after the Supreme Court ruled a woman is someone born biologically female. The author said many women are...

Gender ruling offers clarity after years of ambiguity

Gender ruling offers clarity after years of ambiguity3 hours agoAlison HoltSocial affairs editorGetty ImagesAfter years of argument and dispute about the meaning of gender, the watchword of...

Hospitals urged to change rules on trans people in single-sex wards

Transgender women cannot use single-sex female toilets, changing rooms or compete in women’s sports following a landmark Supreme Court ruling, the head of Britain’s equalities watchdog said....

NHS and prisons to be issued new guidance after ruling on definition of a woman

Public bodies to get new guidance after ruling on definition of a woman1 hour agoRuth ComerfordBBC NewsReutersNew guidance for public bodies on single-sex spaces will be issued, after the UK Supreme...

What does the 'definition of a woman' ruling mean for sport?

Getty Images2 hours agoThe question over whether transgender women can participate in women's sport has been a high-profile issue in recent years. So the UK Supreme Court's ruling that the legal...

What will the Supreme Court ruling change?

Women's campaigners celebrate court win - but what will it change?1 hour agoPhil SimBBC Scotland political correspondentPA MediaThe UK Supreme Court has unanimously and unambiguously backed the...

‘Hallelujah!’ Kemi Badenoch hails ‘victory for women’ as she takes swipe at Keir Starmer

Kemi Badenoch has heralded the end of “the era of Keir Starmer telling us that some women have penises” following a landmark Supreme Court ruling. Judges ruled on Wednesday that the terms...

Supreme Court LIVE: Judges to rule on legal definition of a woman in major announcement

When For Women Scotland’s legal argument was published ahead of November’s appeal, director Trina Budge said: “Not tying the definition of sex to its ordinary meaning means that public boards...

Supreme Court judges to rule on legal definition of a woman

Judges to announce ruling on definition of a woman7 minutes agoGetty ImagesThe Supreme Court is to deliver its verdict on how a woman should be defined in law.The announcement marks the culmination...