Six London councils pledge to keep trans-inclusive services despite EHRC...

[Jessica_Rose ✅]

Six London councils pledge to keep trans-inclusive services despite new EHRC guidance

https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/08/06/london-councils-ehrc-guidance/ 🔗

Sian Thompson (6 Aug 2026)

The leaders of Lambeth, Hackney, Haringey, Lewisham, Southwark and Waltham Forest boroughs issued a joint letter yesterday (5 August) – the day that EHRC's single-sex spaces guidance officially came into force in England, Scotland and Wales.

Because of this guidance, access to public single-sex spaces such as toilets, changing rooms and rape crisis centres should now be determined by person's sex as it was assigned at birth.

The Labour, Green and Liberal Democrat-led boroughs said they would not require staff to "police" access to public spaces, arguing the guidance would make transgender and non-binary residents feel under attack.

While some councils say they will continue operating inclusive services, legal challenges have already begun, with Hackney being served a formal legal challenge due to failure to provide services exclusively for cis women, as reported by The Times.

EHRC chair Mary-Ann Stephenson warned in a statement to Times Radio that public bodies remain legally "obliged to follow the law".

[Devlyn ✅]

The world is full of idiots. Mostly idiots, in fact. That's why only 6 out of 317 councils in England are saying "Yeah, no, this new law is stupid and we're not going along with it."