Impasse over EHRC single-sex spaces guidance ‘distracting from other issues’
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The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is facing an impasse over guidance on access to single-sex spaces, which has diverted attention from other pressing issues. The EHRC is waiting for UK ministers' approval of its official guidance, which will closely reflect interim advice on how public bodies should respond to the supreme court's April ruling on the definition of a woman based on biological sex. The current chair, Lady Kishwer Falkner, is set to leave her post on November 30. The EHRC has only eight commissioners, all of whom were appointed during the last Conservative government, and is advertising for up to four new members. Labour backbenchers and equalities experts have called for a broader approach, potentially appointing the watchdog's first trans commissioner. The delay in approval has been criticized by some insiders as "stall, stall, stall".
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