EHRC sued over ‘unlawful’ consultation on single-sex spaces guidance

An independent human rights group has launched legal action against the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) over the “unlawful” handling of its guidance on trans people.

The National Council for Civil Liberties, also known as Liberty, claimed the EHRC was trying to “speed through” a public consultation on changes to its Code of Practice on single-sex spaces, after giving people just two weeks to respond.

The EHRC has now extending the time frame to six weeks, and a High Court judge will decide whether a hearing on the legal complaint will go ahead, and how quickly to deal with it.

The EHRC, which has been criticised for its transgender policies, launched the consultation in April, following a UK Supreme Court ruling which deemed that the definition of women

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