TransActual publishes new report on harms to gender non-conforming individuals in wake of EHRC interim code of conduct
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TransActual has published a new report setting out in detail the "devastating impact of legally questionable advice" delivered by the Equality & Human Rights Commission (EHRC)
The report - The Gendered Spaces Review - is co-authored by academic and researcher Dr Jack López, and Florence Corvi, and is based on evidence collected from trans and non trans people alike on their experiences accessing gendered spaces.
It demonstrates clearly how individuals who fail to present within narrow societal preconceptions of gender have been "harassed and abused as a direct result of EHRC ‘advice'".
The report shows a "clear increase in the frequency of discrimination and harassment" for everyone who responded to the call for evidence since the EHRC’s interim guidance.
While it was big on how to exclude, it had nothing to say on how to include trans people in public life
Tammy Hymas, policy lead for TransActual, said: “This is what happens when a so-called human rights body, packed full of political appointees representing the views of a tiny group of anti-trans ideologues, decides to turn up the volume on policies designed to restrict the right of all people to express themselves in whichever way they please”
“Their ‘interim guidance,’ published within days of the Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act in April 2025 was little more than glorified press release.
“There was no consultation with stakeholders - or even their own staff. It included legal inaccuracies and has since been withdrawn. And while it was big on how to exclude, it had nothing to say on how to include trans people in public life.
“Our report demonstrates beyond doubt the havoc that the guidance continues to wreak on the lives of trans and gender non-conforming people in the UK."
At a meeting with MPs today, TransActual will be handing over copies of the report and explaining the "harms implicit in the EHRC Draft Code of Practice". The group will also be encouraging them to take action to prevent the Code, as it stands, from being laid in Parliament.
