Transgender women can be legally banned from single-sex toilets and changing rooms, the equalities watchdog has declared.
The fresh guidance, published on Monday, is intended to be a practical guide to help organisations such as hospitals, retailers, hospitality and sports clubs implement policies that are legal and balance the needs of different groups.
It makes it clear that it is legal for a gym to limit communal changing rooms to a single sex, as long as a gender neutral changing room is also provided for trans people. Organisers of a group counselling session for female victims of sexual assault could exclude trans women if they judge that those attending "are likely to be traumatised by the presence of a person who is biologically male", it says.
It is good practice to record reasons and evidence for taking a decision to provide a separate or single-sex service, it adds. A Stonewall spokesman said the guidance appears to contravene the core presumption of the Equality Act - inclusion - and shifts the focus on to reasons for excluding trans people.
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