By Sam Tabahriti LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - Transgender people in Britain can be excluded from single-sex spaces such as public toilets and hospital wards when this is necessary to protect privacy, ...

From the start, feminists have fought for spaces that are less visible but which have special status: prisons, refuges, rape crisis centres, lesbian groups, women’s health centres and sports, says soc ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. [Getty Images] The UK Supreme Court ruled in April 2025 that the definition of a woman in equalities law is based on biological ...

Britain's new transgender access rules, following a Supreme Court ruling, allow single-sex spaces to exclude trans individuals if proportionate for privacy, safety, or dignity. This impacts healthcare ...

New EHRC draft guidance in the UK sets rules on single‑sex spaces, using biological sex as the basis, with implications for ...

Updated code of practice covering England, Wales and Scotland also relates to changing rooms and follows supreme court ruling ...

The UK Supreme Court's definition of a woman in equalities law has significant implications for transgender people. The guidance was published on Thursday following the landmark Supreme Court ruling ...

The podcast cited a recent systematic review of a number of studies and concluded the evidence “does not support theories of inherent athletic advantages for transgender women over cisgender”. The ...

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