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transactualuk.bsky.social
A lot has happened recently on the EHRC’s proposed bathroom ban but they're still trying to exclude trans people from public life. The EHRC aren’t changing course, and we have to keep the pressure up.

Write to your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-ba...

#ScraptheBathroomBan #EHRC #TransRights
Image shows a white toilet. Text reads: Scrap the bathroom ban. A lot has happened on the EHRC’s proposed bathroom ban but they're still trying to exclude trans people from public life. Image shows a person shrugging surrounded by question marks. Text reads: Scrap the bathroom ban. There has been an extreme lack of clarity with employment tribunal outcomes causing further confusion. The government needs to fix this mess. Image shows someone being weighed down by lots of squiggles. Text reads: scrap the bathroom ban. Organisations who want to be trans inclusive are feeling pressure to exclude trans people. Image shows an email icon. Text reads: Scrap the bathroom ban. The EHRC aren’t changing course, and we have to keep the pressure up. Write to your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban
January 22, 2026 at 2:00 PM
transactualuk.bsky.social

If you’ve been questioned, stopped or challenged using a gendered space tell us at tinyurl.com/ReportALoo

By letting us know about your experience, you’ll help us to track patterns, identify common themes and take steps to advocate on this issue at a national level.

#ScrapTheBathroomBan #EHRC
Have you been questioned, stopped or challenged using a gendered space? – TransActual
If you’ve been questioned, stopped or challenged using a gendered space…
tinyurl.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
transactualuk.bsky.social

If you’ve been questioned, stopped or challenged using a gendered space tell us at tinyurl.com/ReportALoo

By letting us know about your experience, you’ll help us to track patterns, identify common themes and take steps to advocate on this issue at a national level.

#ScrapTheBathroomBan #EHRC
Have you been questioned, stopped or challenged using a gendered space? – TransActual
If you’ve been questioned, stopped or challenged using a gendered space…
tinyurl.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
transactualuk.bsky.social
🚨This is an emergency🚨

This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan
Image of a flashing red siren. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban This is an emergency. Tell your MP to say no to segregation. Write to your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban
October 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
transactualuk.bsky.social
We launched our new report in the Houses of Parliament last week.

Report author Dr Jack López presented the report to MPs.

Read the report here: transactual.org.uk/gendered-spa...

#ScrapTheBathroomBan #EHRC #TransRights
November 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
transactualuk.bsky.social

If you’ve been questioned, stopped or challenged using a gendered space tell us at tinyurl.com/ReportALoo

By letting us know about your experience, you’ll help us to track patterns, identify common themes and take steps to advocate on this issue at a national level.

#ScrapTheBathroomBan #EHRC
Have you been questioned, stopped or challenged using a gendered space? – TransActual
If you’ve been questioned, stopped or challenged using a gendered space…
tinyurl.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
transactualuk.bsky.social
The EHRhas sent a new draft Code of Practice which would lead to the exclusion of trans people from public life.

The decision now is up to this government, will they sign a trans bathroom ban in secret?

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

#ScrapTheBathroomBan
November 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
transactualuk.bsky.social

If you’ve been questioned, stopped or challenged using a gendered space tell us at tinyurl.com/ReportALoo

By letting us know about your experience, you’ll help us to track patterns, identify common themes and take steps to advocate on this issue at a national level.

#ScrapTheBathroomBan #EHRC
Have you been questioned, stopped or challenged using a gendered space? – TransActual
If you’ve been questioned, stopped or challenged using a gendered space…
tinyurl.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
angelcakez06.bsky.social
We told them this ban will affect everyone. We told them but they didn’t listen.
#ScrapTheBathroomBan #EHRC
transactualuk.bsky.social TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · Dec 2
We have been tracking people’s experiences with gendered spaces and our new report looks at the impact of the 2025 EHRC interim update on access to, and experiences within, gendered spaces in the UK.
Image shows a row of toilet stalls with blue doors. Text reads: " I went to use the women's toilets as I was on my period and there were no gender neutral ones. A middle aged male security guard ran in after me…he started banging on the [cubicle] door, trying to open it as he shouted "sir, sir you can't be in here”... hearing the pitch of my voice was enough for him to drop it and leave. But I sat in the toilet feeling scared, vulnerable and dirty for a good few minutes." -a non-binary person tinyurl.com/ReportALoo Image shows a sign hanging from the ceiling that says 'WC' and has male and female toilet symbols. Text reads: “ A few months ago in a local LGBTQ+ owned bar, I went into the men's toilets and another guy looked at me and then yelled "You’re in the wrong toilet" in my face at close range.” -a transmasc person tinyurl.com/ReportALoo Image shows multicoloured soft play mats and apparatus. Text reads: "I was supervising my 5 year old disabled son, who was in the establishment’s soft play area. My son soiled himself and so I stood to take him to the facilities. However, when I made to head to the bathroom a woman who I assume to be in a senior role quickly came towards us and blocked my progress, pointing at the men’s toilets and advising me that “The gentlemen’s are there.” -a disabled, trans woman (who had been making her way to the accessible toilet) tinyurl.com/ReportALoo Image shows 3 toilet signs one accessible, one women's and baby changing and one men's. Text reads: "I was stopped going into a bathroom by another tourist who stated that “these are the women’s toilets”. I stated that I am a woman and therefore using the ‘correct’ toilet for my gender. This is the most recent example of me being harassed going into a toilet in the past year. Which has gone from never to 6 incidents now." -a cis, butch dyke tinyurl.com/ReportALoo
December 3, 2025 at 1:20 AM
transactualuk.bsky.social
🚨This is an emergency🚨

This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan
Image of a pink wooden sign that reads 'TOILET' with 'male' and 'female' toilet symbols. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban: tell your MP to say no to segregation. The proposed bathroom ban will deny everyone the basic right to privacy and dignity: we should all be able to use the loo without fear or discrimination. Write to your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban
October 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM
transactualuk.bsky.social
The EHRC has sent a new draft Code of Practice which would lead to the exclusion of trans people from public life.

The decision now is up to this government, will they sign a trans bathroom ban in secret?

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-ba...

#ScrapTheBathroomBan
Image has a pink background and scraps of torn blue and white paper behind the text. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban. Tell Your MP to say no to segregation. This is urgent. The EHRC Code of Practice could be laid in Parliament any day. Act now. Tell your MP to stop this. Write to your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban
October 25, 2025 at 11:02 AM
transactualuk.bsky.social

If you’ve been questioned, stopped or challenged using a gendered space tell us at tinyurl.com/ReportALoo

By letting us know about your experience, you’ll help us to track patterns, identify common themes and take steps to advocate on this issue at a national level.

#ScrapTheBathroomBan #EHRC
Have you been questioned, stopped or challenged using a gendered space? – TransActual
If you’ve been questioned, stopped or challenged using a gendered space…
tinyurl.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
philippaeast.bsky.social
Thanks, Astrid, for making me laugh ☺️
#ScrapTheBathroomBan
May 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
transactualuk.bsky.social
The EHRC has sent a new draft Code of Practice which would lead to the exclusion of trans people from public life.

The decision now is up to this government, will they sign a trans bathroom ban in secret?

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-ba...

#ScrapTheBathroomBan
Image of a pink wooden sign that reads 'TOILET' with 'male' and 'female' toilet symbols. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban: tell your MP to say no to segregation. The proposed bathroom ban will deny everyone the basic right to privacy and dignity: we should all be able to use the loo without fear or discrimination. Write to your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban
October 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
transactualuk.bsky.social
The EHRC has sent a new draft Code of Practice which would lead to the exclusion of trans people from public life.

The decision now is up to this government, will they sign a trans bathroom ban in secret?

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-ba...

#ScrapTheBathroomBan
Image of a pink wooden sign that reads 'TOILET' with 'male' and 'female' toilet symbols. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban: tell your MP to say no to segregation. The proposed bathroom ban will deny everyone the basic right to privacy and dignity: we should all be able to use the loo without fear or discrimination. Write to your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban
October 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
philippaeast.bsky.social
Yeah. It’s so plainly obvious.

But the Supreme Court just ignored all that and said “those silly people who wrote the Explanatory Note in the GRA weren’t as clever as us. We smart-asses just know better.” 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

By the way, I think #ScrapTheBathroomBan is a great campaign hashtag.
Let’s use it.
81. As to what one can glean from the provisions of the GRA 2004 about the intended effect of section 9(1) on the scope of the SDA 1975, the Scottish Ministers drew the court’s attention to para 27 of the Explanatory Notes. The notes give as an example of the effect of section 9(1), that a trans woman with a GRC would be entitled to protection from discrimination as a woman under the SDA 1975. In our view, this is a good illustration of why the use to which the courts should put explanatory notes is limited to the context of the legislation and the mischief to which its provisions are aimed: see Lord Steyn in R (Westminster City Council) v National Asylum Support Service [2002] UKHL 38, [2002] 1 WLR 2956, para 5 and the passages from R (O) cited earlier. There is nothing in the notes to suggest that the department had undertaken the kind of detailed analysis of the effect of such a change on the operation of provisions of the SDA 1975, as amended by the 1999 Regulations, that we have undertaken in the following sections of this judgment before giving that as an example of the effect of section 9(1).
May 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
transactualuk.bsky.social
🚨This is an emergency🚨

This Government is currently sitting on an EHRC Code of Practice that will lead to the segregation and exclusion of trans people in public life.

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

@transsolidarity.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan
Image has a pink background and scraps of torn blue and white paper behind the text. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban. Tell Your MP to say no to segregation. This is urgent. The EHRC Code of Practice could be laid in Parliament any day. Act now. Tell your MP to stop this. Write to your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban
October 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
transactualuk.bsky.social
We’ve created an FAQ resource with common questions that might be raised by MPs.

Find the resource at: tinyurl.com/Bathroom-Ban...

Ask your MP to urge the government to scrap the bathroom ban.

You can find our resource for meeting your MP at:
tinyurl.com/Meet-Your-MP

#ScrapTheBathroomBan
Image shows four speech bubbles with question marks in them. Text reads: Are you talking to your MP about scrapping the EHRC’s Bathroom ban? We’ve created an FAQ resource with common questions that might be raised by MPs, and possible responses you can give to explain why this is needed. Find the resource at: tinyurl.com/Bathroom-Ban-FAQs
November 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
philippaeast.bsky.social
#ScrapTheBathroomBan (campaign hashtag)
May 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
philippaeast.bsky.social
Below is a letter template you can use to write your MP about the fact that trans people are now trying to flee the UK (as mentioned in the above article)

bsky.app/profile/phil...

#ScrapTheBathroomBan
May 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
transactualuk.bsky.social
The draft EHRC Code of Practice, as reported in the Times, now admits that there is no way to enforce the anti-trans bathroom ban other than based on policing the appearance and gender presentation of all service users.

#EHRC #TransRights #ScrapTheBathroomBan #Trans #Nonbinary #EqualityAct
Statement on leaked EHRC draft Statutory Code, The draft EHRC Code of Practice, as reported in the Times, now admits that there is no way to enforce the anti-trans bathroom ban other than based on policing the appearance and gender presentation of all service users. Full Statement on our website
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
transactualuk.bsky.social
The EHRC has sent a new draft Code of Practice which would lead to the exclusion of trans people from public life.

The decision now is up to this government, will they sign a trans bathroom ban in secret?

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-ba...

#ScrapTheBathroomBan
Image has a pink background and scraps of torn blue and white paper behind the text. Text reads: Scrap the Bathroom Ban. Tell Your MP to say no to segregation. This is urgent. The EHRC Code of Practice could be laid in Parliament any day. Act now. Tell your MP to stop this. Write to your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban
November 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
transactualuk.bsky.social
A new report from TransActual looks at the impact of the 2025 EHRC interim update on access to, and experiences within, gendered spaces in the UK.

Read the full report here: transactual.org.uk/gendered-spa...

#TransRights #EHRC #ScrapTheBathroomBan #EqualityAct
Image of a megaphone on a pink and purple background. Text reads: Gendered Spaces and the Impact of the EHRC Non-Statutory Interim Update on Trans, Intersex and Gender Non-Conforming Adults. Discrimination and harassment have increased for both trans and non trans people since the EHRC’s “Interim Update”. Image of a megaphone on a pink and purple background. Text reads: Following challenge or harassment, respondents reported avoiding gendered spaces because of fear of violence or intimidation. Image of a megaphone on a pink and purple background. Text reads: Trans people are being challenged, misgendered and harassed whether they use a facility that aligns with their sex assigned at birth, or not. Many gender non conforming women also report more challenges in gendered spaces. Image of a megaphone on a pink and purple background, image of the front cover of the report. Text reads: A new report from TransActual looks at the impact of the 2025 EHRC interim update on access to, and experiences within, gendered spaces in the UK. TransActual.org.uk/gendered-spaces-report-25
October 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
transactualuk.bsky.social
The EHRhas sent a new draft Code of Practice which would lead to the exclusion of trans people from public life.

The decision now is up to this government, will they sign a trans bathroom ban in secret?

Use our tool to email your MP: tinyurl.com/scrap-the-bathroom-ban

#ScrapTheBathroomBan
October 31, 2025 at 2:04 PM
transactualuk.bsky.social

If you’ve been questioned, stopped or challenged using a gendered space tell us at tinyurl.com/ReportALoo

By letting us know about your experience, you’ll help us to track patterns, identify common themes and take steps to advocate on this issue at a national level.

#ScrapTheBathroomBan #EHRC
Have you been questioned, stopped or challenged using a gendered space? – TransActual
If you’ve been questioned, stopped or challenged using a gendered space…
tinyurl.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM