Trans civil servants WILL be banned from utilizing incorrect loos after gender courtroom judgement – however minister guidelines out ‘bathroom police’ to implement regulation

Trans civil servants and public sector workers will be barred from using toilets and changing rooms for their identifying gender in the wake of a major court ruling, a senior minister said today. 

Cabinet Office Minister Pat McFadden confirmed that the Government will follow new guidance on trans access that means people should use facilities aligned with their birth sex.

But Mr McFadden also admitted in an interview that there would be no ‘toilet police’ standing outside bathrooms to check the rules were being implemented properly. 

The equalities watchdog has issued interim guidance in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling that the term woman is defined by biological sex.

Trans women ‘should not be permitted to use the women’s facilities’ in workplaces or public-facing services like shops and hospitals, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said, and the same is true for trans men and men’s toilets.

But the watchdog also insisted that trans people ‘should not be put in a position where there are no facilities for them to use’.

Asked by the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg what steps the Government would take, Mr McFadden said the ‘logical consequence’ was ‘that people use the facilities of their biological sex’.

But asked if it meant transgender people would be banned from using the toilets of the gender they identify as, Mr McFadden said: ‘Look, in reality, when you say ban, am I going to be standing outside toilets? I’m probably not – there isn’t going to be toilet police.’

Cabinet Office Minister Pat McFadden confirmed that the Government will follow new guidance on trans access that means they should use facilities aligned with their birth sex.

Trans women ‘should not be permitted to use the women’s facilities’ in workplaces or public-facing services like shops and hospitals, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said, and the same is true for trans men and men’s toilets.

The equalities watchdog has issued interim guidance in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling that the term woman is defined by biological sex.

Over the Easter period, the Supreme Court declared that the words ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act refer to a biological woman and biological sex.

The ruling has been interpreted to mean that trans women, who are biologically male but identify as women, can be excluded from women-only spaces like toilets and changing rooms.

The guidance has been released because ‘many people have questions about the judgment and what it means for them’, the EHRC said.

Schools must provide single-sex changing facilities to boys and girls over the age of eight, according to the new guidance.

‘Suitable alternative provisions may be required’ for trans pupils, the watchdog said, as trans girls ‘should not be permitted to use the girls’ toilet or changing facilities, and pupils who identify as trans boys (biological girls) should not be permitted to use the boys’ toilet or changing facilities’.

The watchdog also said that sports clubs and other associations of 25 or more people are allowed to be exclusively for biological men or women.

Such clubs ‘can be limited to people who each have two protected characteristics’, the guidance said.

This would mean, for example, that a lesbian women’s sports club should not admit trans women.

The watchdog is working on a more detailed code of practice following the Supreme Court ruling, which it said it aims to provide to the Government for ministerial approval by June.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has said she ‘took a lot of abuse from Labour MPs calling me a homophobe, a transphobe, for saying what the Supreme Court has just ruled’ and that she has ‘no sympathy’ for Labour.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has said she ‘took a lot of abuse from Labour MPs calling me a homophobe, a transphobe, for saying what the Supreme Court has just ruled’ and that she has ‘no sympathy’ for Labour.

Asked if she dislikes the Prime Minister on Sky News’ Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips, she said: ‘No, I don’t dislike him. I dislike his politics and I dislike the fact that there’s no conviction in anything that he does.

‘How can we have a Prime Minister who doesn’t know what a woman is until the Supreme Court tells him, what does he know about the economy then, what’s he going to do about foreign affairs – we’ve just been talking about Trump and Zelensky.

‘If someone is too afraid to say what they think because they’re afraid of what the media will say or what others will say, then how can they lead the country?

‘The reason why I’m so vocal on this issue is because I took a lot of abuse from Labour MPs calling me a homophobe, a transphobe, for saying what the Supreme Court has just ruled.

‘So, I don’t have any sympathy for them feeling that they’re getting opprobrium. They just have to deal with it. Politics is about making difficult decisions. They need to grow up and be honest about what it is they believe in.’