This week Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities Marsha de Cordova asked a good question about the single sex exceptions in the Equality Act.
Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch gave a good and clear answer.
Providers have the right to restrict the use of spaces on the basis of sex, and exclude transgender people with or without a GRC if this is justified.
Kemi Badenoch, Equalities Minister, 2020
It is worth reflecting that she talked about “restricting the use of spaces” on the basis of sex.
How do you do this? A service provider sets a rule which applies to the space, based on sex: male or female only. And they communicate it.
Usually they do this with a simple pictogram like this:
This picture is not just a commonly understood cultural image, it is standardised internationally as part of ISO Standard 7001 . It explicitly means…
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