Official guidance on how businesses should implement the Supreme Court gender ruling may not be released until the chair of the equality watchdog has left the role, it has been claimed.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) pledged to produce final guidance by July but this could reportedly be delayed by months amid infighting with its chair Baroness Falkner.
Following April’s Supreme Court ruling that sex is biological, the Commission released interim guidance that trans women ‘should not be permitted to use the women's facilities’.
This protects single-sex spaces in line with the landmark judgment and has wide-ranging implications for workplaces, shops, hospitals and sports clubs.
This position has been reinforced by Baroness Falkner, who has made clear repeatedly that the law as set out in the Supreme Court’s judgment is effective immediately and organisations must follow it.
