Judge says claim brought by Sex Matters should be made instead by individual who says they have faced discrimination
A charity cannot bring a high court challenge over rules allowing trans people to use the single-sex facilities at swimming ponds on Hampstead Heath, a judge has ruled.
Sex Matters sought to take legal action against the City of London, which operates the men’s, women’s and mixed bathing ponds in north London.
Its barristers told a hearing in December the policy of allowing trans people to use the facilities for the gender with which they identified amounted to sex discrimination.
The challenge, which the City of London opposed, followed a supreme court ruling last year that the terms “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act refer only to a biological woman and to biological sex.
