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‘Kind of humiliating’: trans community responds to EHRC’s new code of practice
The UK's Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) published updated guidance requiring single-sex spaces like toilets and changing rooms to be used based on biological sex, not gender identity. Transgender advocates view this as discriminatory, with the article featuring Stephen Whittle's perspective on the implications for trans people accessing facilities aligned with their lived gender.
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