Civil servants are threatening legal action and strikes over what they claim is the 'segregation' of transgender people in Government toilets and changing rooms.
Activists in Whitehall's biggest trade union are calling for 'possible industrial, legal and human rights challenges' to guidance which had the effect of 'segregating our trans and non-binary members in the workplace'.
They want to 'ensure' such guidance is 'vigorously opposed', after the Government said transgender women would have to use male facilities in accordance with the Supreme Court ruling on single-sex spaces.
Members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union also oppose 'the segregation' of trans women in sport, in light of governing bodies including the Football Association and the England and Wales Cricket Board banning those born male from female teams.
Delegates at its annual conference later this month will be asked to agree with the statement that: 'Conference rejects biological essentialism and reductionism.
