The Equality and Human Rights Commission has published interim guidance following last week’s Supreme Court decision. It instructs organisations that manage public spaces and workplaces to create segregated mixed-sex bathrooms, washing and changing facilities for Trans+ people to use.
It does this on the basis that same-sex spaces can only be used by people that align with the Supreme Court’s definition of ‘biological sex’, while also saying that Trans+ perceived to be of the wrong gender can’t use bathrooms that match their biological sex.
If taken beyond interim guidance and made statutory, it would be the biggest human rights disaster since racial segregation and apartheid.
The guidance covers workplaces, schools, and services open to the public, such as hospitals, shops and restaurants.
It stipulates that, where possible, mixed-sex toilets, washing and changing facilities should now be provided. In an interim period, it sets out where this is not possible, trans people should not be put in a position where there are no facilities for them to use.
We should not forget the original aim of the ruling which is genocide. That last part about introducing mixed-sex toilets in thanks to public protests. They work. Keep up with public protests until the ruling is reversed.
What ethnic group is being systematically murdered here?
Not an ethnic group but transgender people are the targets of genocide. It doesn’t start with systematic killings. It ends there, and denying them medical treatment is already systemic killing, only indirect.