by Will Jones, Daily Sceptic
Civil servants are threatening strikes and legal action over guidance prohibiting trans ‘women’ from using female toilets and changing rooms in Government buildings. The Telegraph has the story.
Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) have claimed that such rules would be “segregating our trans and non-binary members in the workplace”.
Their threats come after the Supreme Court ruled last month that transgender women are not legally women, and that “sex” in equality law refers to biological sex.
The equalities watchdog said trans women should not be allowed to use female lavatories, and employers, shops and hospitals should act in line with the judgment.
But activists from PCS will put forward a motion at the union’s annual conference later this month calling for “possible, legal and human rights challenges” to guidance that would enforce the ruling in government toilets and changing rooms.
The motion, first reported by the Daily Mail, states: “Conference rejects biological essentialism and reductionism.
“Conference believes LGBT+ and women’s liberation are interlinked and that our bodies do not define who we are, who we love or what we are capable of.”