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The British Transport Police has already made a move, saying on Thursday (local time) that it had changed its strip search policy, and trans people held in custody would be searched by an officer in line with their birth sex.
How will it impact women-only spaces?
“If a service provider says ‘we’re offering a women’s toilet’, then trans people should not be using that single-sex facility,” she said.
She said trans rights organisations should push for more neutral third spaces to accommodate trans people.
Will trans women still have access to female-only hospital wards?
The advice has meant trans women have been allowed to opt for treatment in women-only hospital wards even if they do not have a GRC or have not legally changed their name.
Falkner said the watchdog would pursue the NHS if it did not change the existing guidance on the treatment of trans women patients.
What’s the future for trans women in sport?
Campaigners said there were now “no excuses” for allowing transgender women to compete in women’s sporting events.
Former Football Association (FA) chair David Triesman told the Daily Telegraph rulemakers who allowed trans women to compete alongside biological women should “stand down immediately”.
