Transgender campaigners call for European rights body to report on UKAlliance of groups wants Council of Europe to investigate implementation of supreme court ruling on biological sex
Link to Full ArticleThe Guardian - Peter Walker
Sat 28 Jun 2025 02.00 EDT
A collection of groups campaigning on transgender issues have urged Europe's main human rights body to investigate the UK over the implementation of the supreme court's ruling on gender.
In a joint letter to the Council of Europe, the organisations said the situation in which transgender people were likely to be barred from using toilets of their acquired sex or joining single-sex organisations placed them in an "intermediate zone" of gender, saying this was a violation of the European convention on human rights (ECHR).
The five groups, Trans+ Solidarity Alliance, TransActual, Equality Network and Scottish Trans, Trans Safety Network and Feminist Gender Equality Network, have asked the council to report on trans rights in the UK, adding: "We note that the situation is urgent and that without intervention, it seems likely to further deteriorate."
The letter argues that this would leave transgender people reliant on gender-neutral facilities, which are often unavailable "and mandating their usage may require trans people to out themselves".
The convention is interpreted by the European court of human rights, part of the Strasbourg-based Council of Europe, which is separate from the EU and to which Britain remains a member.-------------------
