Transgender civil servants WILL be banned from toilets and changing rooms meant for the opposite sex
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Transgender civil servants will be banned from using toilets and changing rooms meant for the opposite sex, a senior minister confirmed yesterday.
Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden said the Government will follow new guidance on trans access that means people should use facilities aligned with their biological not chosen sex, but admitted there will be no 'toilet police' to check the rules were being properly implemented.
It comes in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling that the term woman is defined by biological sex.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has now issued guidance stating unequivocally that in workplaces and places open to the public 'trans women (biological men) should not be permitted to use the women's facilities and trans men (biological women) should not be permitted to use the men's facilities'.
Asked by the BBC yesterday if the Government will stop trans people from using the changing rooms or bathrooms they wish to use, Mr McFadden agreed: 'Yes, that's the logical consequence of the judgment and the guidance that's come out that people use the facilities of their biological sex. That's what the court said and that's what the guidance has said.'
He added: 'There isn't going to be toilet police but that is the logical consequence of the court ruling and the EHRC guidance.'
It comes as the Government faced fresh calls to publish long-awaited guidance for schools on pupils who identify as the opposite sex.
Draft rules for teachers, which urged caution when children ask to change their names or uniform without parental consent, were published by the Tories in late 2023.
Yet Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson told MPs last week that the guidelines on gender-questioning children would still not be finalised until 'later this year'.
Writing in the Mail, shadow education spokesman Laura Trott says: 'The Government must stop dithering and publish the long-overdue guidance for schools to follow to help them make decisions regarding gender-questioning children.'
She said the guidance provides clarity and included 'sensible steps', such as parents not being excluded from decisions taken by a school in relation to requests by their child to socially transition.
She also accuses Ms Phillipson of having 'slammed the brakes' on separate guidance on sex education, published in draft form by the Conservatives last May, which would have banned lessons on contested gender ideology.
In the Commons last week, the Education Secretary said: 'I do agree it is important parents are involved in important decisions about their children's lives.
'Alongside that, potential safeguarding considerations will always need to be taken into account.
'That is why we are looking at these areas very carefully to make sure we get it right and provide the clarity schools leaders are quite rightly asking for.'
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